Listen4Good Case Study: Students Rising Above

Watch how Fund for Shared Insight’s Listen4Good feedback initiative improved programs and sparked a listening and “survey culture” at a San Francisco nonprofit that helps first-generation college students get to and through college and into thriving careers.

Produced by The James Irvine Foundation, a Fund for Shared Insight core funder.

Video by Edward Valibus.

 

 

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