We offer a range of examples and resources because there are no one-size-fits-all solutions; and we share them in a menu format so you can choose what’s interesting or relevant to you and your foundation. We don’t rank the practices or the organizations employing them or intend to signal that any featured funder has met its listening goals across the board. Each example represents only a moment in time — a practice one of your peers told us (or an intermediary) about, and that we hope might inspire you to enhance your own listening work.

Similarly, we do not rank the resources, though we did select them based on a set of criteria, including:

• We and/or our partners have personally used the resource and find it is high-quality, promotes impact, and aligns with our power analysis
• The resource is widely and publicly available (not just to paid members) and, ideally, accessible to people with disabilities
• The resource is relevant to, and includes applicable lessons for, a variety of types of funders
• The resource is as evergreen as possible

New resources are always coming online. We hope that the ones we’ve included are helpful while also sparking your curiosity and helping you forge an ongoing relationship with the creators and other aligned efforts.

We are always looking to add more funder listening examples and more resources. Please reach out to our communications team.