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  • Stories

Why Listening to Community is Essential in 2026 

  • Aaron Dorfman
  • National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
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  • Stories

From Givers to Learners: How One Foundation Transformed Its Listening Practice

  • Caitlin O’Brien, Manuel Portillo, Hitomi Yoshida
  • Scattergood Foundation
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  • Stories

In Conversation: What Listening Looks Like at Two Family Foundations

  • Listen to Community
  • Walter & Elise Haas Fund, William Penn Foundation
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  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Learn How to Bring Impacted Community Members on Board

  • Listen to Community
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  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Discover the Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit

  • Listen to Community
Funder Listening Action Menu Tools and Resources to Shift Power to Communities
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Explore the Funder Listening Action Menu

  • Listen to Community
Funder Listening Assessment Tool
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Take the Funder Listening Assessment

  • Listen to Community
Community Listening Sessions: A Guide for Funders
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: See What it Takes to Run a Community Listening Session

  • Listen to Community
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  • Stories

From a Mindset of Control to Public Stewardship: Centering Community, Moving the Money

  • Glen Galaich, Listen to Community Ambassador
  • Stupski Foundation
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  • Stories

Listen4Good: New Learnings from Collaborative Community Listening in the Field

  • Valerie Threlfall
  • Listen4Good
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  • Stories, Videos

Reflecting on 12 Years of Fund for Shared Insight: A Video

  • Fund for Shared Insight
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  • Stories

Putting Community at the Center: Our Path to Shifting Power

  • Sabrina Hargrave, Listen to Community Ambassador
  • Brooklyn Org
  • Stories, Videos

‘Share Your Voice:’ GreenLight Fund Kansas City Looks to Community for Direction

  • Listen to Community
  • GreenLight Fund Kansas City
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  • Stories

Listening to Change: Leaning into the Messiness of Authentic Engagement

  • Sonia Taddy-Sandino
  • Engage R+D
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  • News

Introducing the New Listen to Community Ambassadors

  • Listen to Community
"Toward Meaningful, Valuable, Equitable Governance," a report/tool from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
  • Tools

Building Boards for Community-Driven Philanthropy: A New Resource from GEO

  • Meghan Duffy
  • Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Reimagining Governance: A Q&A with Dimple Abichandani
  • Stories

Reimagining Governance: A Q&A with Dimple Abichandani

  • Listen to Community
  • Dimple Abichandani, Listen to Community Ambassador
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  • Stories, Videos

‘The Relationship is the Intervention:’ A Funder Works Side by Side with Community

  • Kerry Darragh, Nikki Highsmith Vernick
  • Horizon Foundation
Philanthropy and Community Empowerment: A Talk with Hanh Le
  • Podcasts, Stories

Listening As Repair: A Conversation with Hanh Le

  • Listen to Community
  • iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility
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  • Events

Welcome to Listen to Community — Let’s get to work!

August 6, 2026
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET

  • August 6, 2026 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
  • Learn how Listen to Community can support your foundation’s efforts to listen in ways that can build community power — whether you are just getting started or are eager to deepen your practice. Bring your ideas and questions!
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  • Stories

A Case Study Updated: Applying Community Engagement Lessons to Strategic Planning

  • Elizabeth Jordan
  • Ruth Mott Foundation
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  • Stories

What It Means for Funders to Listen to Community

  • Gita Gulati-Partee, Rick Moyers, Melinda Tuan
  • Fund for Shared Insight
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  • Stories

‘Who Are You Accountable To?’ The Questions that Changed Grand Victoria Foundation

  • Listen to Community
  • Grand Victoria Foundation
The Foundation Review, The Power of Listening to Communities
  • Stories

Shifting a Complex System: Lessons from a Decade of Listening-Centered Philanthropy

  • Julia Coffman
  • The Foundation Review
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