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Six black women in Tanzania hold up five fingers to signal a job opportunity program.
  • Stories

Trusting Local Leadership: A Funder Builds Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Segal Family Foundation
preschool children sit on a gum mat in a classroom with confetti flying down
  • Stories

Strengthening Rural Communities Through Listening

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • The Ford Family Foundation
Community Listening and Reimagining Strategy at Deaconess Foundation
  • Stories

Community Listening and Reimagining Strategy at Deaconess Foundation

  • Constance Harper
  • Deaconess Foundation
a small group of women huddle at a community meeting in front of a board with sticky-note ideas
  • Stories

Community Consultants Bring New Voices to a Funder’s Decision Making

  • Danielle Robinson
  • GreenLight Fund Kansas City
Meeting the Moment: A Focus on Power Positions a Funder to Listen and Respond
  • Stories

Meeting the Moment: A Focus on Power Positions a Funder to Listen and Respond

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Weissberg Foundation
Four men standing in front of photos of their children lost to violence, including by the police
  • Stories, Videos

How Participatory Grantmaking Supports a Community-Driven Vision of Safety

  • Jeree Thomas
  • Borealis Philanthropy
  • Stories

What Is Funder Listening to Shift Power?

  • Melinda Tuan
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Katy Love joins her Fund for Shared Insight colleague Jonathan Brack, Kolibri Foundation’s Eileen Farbman, and Brooklyn Org’s Sabrina Hargrave, on a Philanthropy New York webinar.
  • Stories

Insights from “Responding to the Moment: Participatory Approaches in Philanthropy”

  • Katy Love
  • Fund for Shared Insight
two women preparing food in a commercial kitchen
  • Stories

Grantmaking as Bumper Bowling: A Community Foundation’s Journey towards Shifting and Sharing Power

  • Anne Meysenburg and Dasia Horne
  • Omaha Community Foundation
Pacific Golden Plover (pluvialis fulva) standing on a volcanic rock near a young pine tree sapling. Nearby pond is in the background. In Hilo, Hawaii.
  • Stories

Tensions in Funder Learning: Reflections on a Participatory Grantmaking Initiative

  • Melinda Tuan
  • Fund for Shared Insight
two people use markers to color on a poster hanging on a wall
  • Stories

Annual Statewide Survey Sets the Stage for a Funder’s Deeper Listening

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • The Colorado Health Foundation
Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood Video
  • Stories, Videos

Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Brooklyn Org
Dr. Jocelynne Rainey (lower left), president and CEO of Brooklyn Org, participates in a Listening Tour session in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
  • Stories

Representing Brooklyn from the Ground Up

  • Sabrina Hargrave
  • Brooklyn Org
A strategy planning meeting at ACT for Alexandria.
  • Stories

Listen, Learn, Act: One Funder’s Lessons from a Participatory Strategy Process

  • Heather Peeler
  • ACT for Alexandria
Chris Lassiter, director of community engagement at the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, and Rick Bady, case manager at Valley Mission, in Staunton, VA, which provides services to people experiencing homelessness. Photo credit: Kate Simon
  • Stories

Funders Out in the Community: ‘My Whole Job Is Talking and Listening’

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, Missouri Foundation for Health
Weaving Trust-Based Philanthropy into a Participatory Initiative
  • Stories

Weaving Trust-Based Philanthropy into a Participatory Initiative

  • Winifred Olliff and Katy Love
  • via The Center for Effective Philanthropy
What Impact Can Participatory Philanthropy Have? Ask the Participants
  • Stories

What Impact Can Participatory Philanthropy Have? Ask the Participants

  • Katy Love
  • Fund for Shared Insight
The Most Significant Changes Resulting from Fund for Shared Insight’s Participatory Climate Initiative
  • Stories

The Most Significant Changes Resulting from Fund for Shared Insight’s Participatory Climate Initiative 

  • ORS Impact
Reflections on a Participatory Philanthropy Initiative
  • Stories

A Funder’s Reflections on a Participatory Philanthropy Initiative

  • Claire Poelking
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Gabriela Alcalde, executive director of the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation for Q & A blog
  • Stories

A Maine Foundation Embraces ‘Deep Listening’ for Equity and Accountability

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
Image of tidepool
  • Stories

Learning to ‘Embrace the Beauty of What Exists’: A Conversation About Participatory Grantmaking

  • Ciciley “CC” Moore, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Windcall Institute, KUA
Participatory Grantmaking & Meditations on Power-ORS Impact
  • Stories

More than Money: Participatory Grantmaking and Perceptions of Power

  • Sarah Stachowiak
  • ORS Impact
Tzedek Social Justice Fund
  • Stories

Social Justice Philanthropy Changes Course to Center Community Voices, Healing, and Collective Power

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • Tzedek Social Justice Fund
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