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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
The Foundation Review
  • 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
  • with Dimple Abichandani, L2C Ambassador
The Foundation Review, The Power of Listening to Communities
  • Events

The Power of Listening to Communities, with The Foundation Review

April 22, 2026
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET

  • April 22, 2026 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET
  • Featuring authors from The Foundation Review special issue, “The Power of Listening to Communities,” this session will explore what it really means for funders to listen in ways that shift power — and how to evaluate whether those efforts are working.
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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
Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit logo
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Discover the Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit

  • Fund for Shared Insight
Funder Listening Action Menu Tools and Resources to Shift Power to Communities
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Explore the Funder Listening Action Menu

  • Fund for Shared Insight
Funder Listening Assessment Tool
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Take the Funder Listening Assessment

  • Fund for Shared Insight
Community Listening Sessions: A Guide for Funders
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Community Listening Sessions, A Guide for Funders

  • Fund for Shared Insight
Listen to Community Events
  • Events

A Deep Dive with Listen to Community: Shifting Power in the Boardroom

May 14, 2026
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET

  • May 14, 2026 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET
  • Get practical guidance on changing board makeup and dynamics to put real decision-making power in the hands of people and communities who are most impacted by your foundation’s decisions.
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  • Events

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

June 17, 2026
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET

  • June 17, 2026 2:00 to 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.
Ruth Mott Foundation provides update from its Foundation Review article
  • Stories

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

  • Elizabeth Jordan
  • Ruth Mott Foundation
The Foundation Review
  • Stories

What It Means for Funders to Listen to Community

  • Gita Gulati-Partee, Rick Moyers, Melinda Tuan
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Staff members at Grand Victoria Foundation pose in front of a mural at a foundation-hosted event called Black Abundance Convening
  • 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
Listen to Community: Community Conversations —Baltimore
  • Stories, Videos

A Candid Conversation Among Community Leaders: What Funders Need to Hear About Listening and Power

  • Listen to Community
  • Video: Five Baltimore Grassroots Leaders
Creating a ‘Movement-Led Family Foundation’: A Conversation with the Kolibri Foundation
  • Podcasts, Stories

Creating a ‘Movement-Led Family Foundation’: A Conversation with the Kolibri Foundation

  • Listen to Community
  • Kolibri Foundation
Listening in this Moment: A Guide for Funders
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: A Funders’ Guide to Listening in This Moment

  • Feedback Labs
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  • Stories

A Family Foundation’s Transformation from ‘Foundation-Centric’ to ‘Community-Centric’

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • William Penn Foundation
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  • Videos

A Silicon Valley Funder Rethinks the Power It Holds

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2)
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