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A blog featuring news, updates, case studies, and opinion pieces highlighting how philanthropy and nonprofits advance impact and equity by listening to the people at the heart of their work.

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The Case for Feedback as Credible Data
  • ORS Impact
A Participatory Learning Journey: Lessons in Building Trust and Strengthening Community Partnerships
  • Kim Ammann Howard, The James Irvine Foundation
Fostering Participatory Learning Approaches in Philanthropy: A Guide for the Curious
Listening for Possibility in Times of Crisis
  • Creating the Future
photo looking up a white bark tree trunk to yellow leaves and a blue sky
Putting Community Out Front: An Interview with John Brothers
John Brothers with Mama Kay Lawal-Muhammad of WombWork, social change performing arts company, in Baltimore,
How Participatory Grantmaking Supports a Community-Driven Vision of Safety
  • Borealis Philanthropy
Four men standing in front of photos of their children lost to violence, including by the police
Turn on Your Headlights: How Funders Can Cut Through the Chaos Right Now
  • via Center for Effective Philanthropy
Turn on Your Headlights: How Funders Can Cut Through the Chaos Right Now
How to Alleviate Concerns About Centering Community Voice: Advice for Funders
  • Community Wealth Partners
Community Wealth Partners - Advice for Funders Blog Post
Listening and the Five Rs of Indigenous Philanthropy
  • Native Americans in Philanthropy
8 young women participating in a Native Youth Grantmakers program stand in front of a bridge/waterway in Seattle
How Community Lessons Are Shaping a Statewide Funder’s 50-Year Vision
  • Inatai Foundation
Community leaders in Washington State sitting around a table in a conference room, raising their hands in joy or exclamation
What Is Funder Listening to Shift Power?
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Insights from “Responding to the Moment: Participatory Approaches in Philanthropy”
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Katy Love joins her Fund for Shared Insight colleague Jonathan Brack, Kolibri Foundation’s Eileen Farbman, and Brooklyn Org’s Sabrina Hargrave, on a Philanthropy New York webinar.
A New Day for Listening: Funders Co-Learning From Nonprofits’ Community Feedback
  • Listen4Good
1000 for good. Listen4Good celebrating our collective impact
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