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  • Stories

‘Right Now Requires Something Different:’ Inside Sewall Foundation’s Shift in Who Decides

  • Listen to Community
  • Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
  • Stories

When the Focus Shifts from Risk to Trust: A Conversation with Sewall Foundation Board Members

  • Jono Anzalone, Leslie Hill, Amara Ifeji
  • Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
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  • Stories

Listening to Community When the Community Is Your Own: A Conversation with Sewall Foundation Community Partners

  • Amie Hutchison, Kristina Kalolo, Sonya LaCoute-Dana, Lucy Van Hook
  • Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
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  • Stories

Resourcing Solutions from the Community: Vamos Outdoors Project and Mount Baker, the Foundation Learning to Listen

  • Listen to Community
  • Mount Baker Foundation
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  • Stories

Escaping the ‘Broken Record’ of Philanthropic Listening: A Conversation with Vamos Outdoors Project

  • Andy Basabe, Julián Medina-Schroeder, Walter Topete
  • Vamos Outdoors Project
  • Stories

What New Mexico Is Teaching Us About Funder Listening

  • Michael Gale
  • Feedback Labs
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  • Stories

Five Practical Steps for Building a Listening Practice

  • Melissa Monbouquette
  • BUILD Health Challenge
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  • Stories

Listening for Real: Mindsets That Promote Practices to Transform Philanthropy

  • Jay Feldman, Kate Szczerbacki, Nitya Venkateswaran  
  • Greater Hartford Gives Foundation
  • 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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  • 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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  • Stories

Introducing the New Listen to Community Ambassadors

  • Listen to Community
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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  • 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
  • AMARA, formerly Grand Victoria Foundation
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