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A woman wearing a "Brooklyn Backs Brooklyn" t-shirt sorts books with other volunteers
  • 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
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
Horizon Foundation and Howard County Maryland - The Roving Radish pop up veggie stand
  • 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
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
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