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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
People and bicyclists in a parade holding up a banner that says "Essential"
  • Stories

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

  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • William Penn Foundation
members of SV2's governing board sit around a table with laptops on the desks in front of them
  • Stories, Videos

A Silicon Valley Funder Rethinks the Power It Holds

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

Listen to Community: Seven Organizations Launch Initiative to Champion Funder Listening

  • Listen to Community
The Foundation Review Spotlights Growing Momentum for Funders Listening to Communities
  • Stories

The Foundation Review Spotlights Growing Momentum for Funders Listening to Communities

  • Rick Moyers
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Community leaders at a power-building conference in Kamilche, Washington hosted by Inatai Foundation. Photo: Kariba Jack
  • Stories

How Community Lessons Are Shaping a Statewide Funder’s 50-Year Vision

  • Nichole June Maher
  • Inatai Foundation
young children in costumes sit around a large drum learning how to play
  • Stories

A New Table, Set Together: How a Family Foundation is Shifting Power to Community

  • Rabya Hassen
  • Mortenson Family Foundation
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
Funders: Are We Really Listening? An Opportunity for Reflection and Change
  • Stories

Funders: Are We Really Listening? An Opportunity for Reflection and Change

  • Melinda Tuan and Rick Moyers
  • Fund for Shared Insight
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
Podcast: Pilot Episode: Listening, Power, and Cartoon Heroes
  • Podcasts, Stories

Podcast Pilot Episode: Listening, Power, and Cartoon Heroes

  • Listen to Community
  • Indiana Philanthropy Alliance and Feedback Labs
Mosaic of insights for change posts
  • Stories

Looking Back at 2024: Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts

  • Rick Moyers
  • Fund for Shared Insight
  • 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
Listening, Responding and Shifting Power podcast
  • Stories

Listening, Responding, and Shifting Power

  • Filantropía Puerto Rico Podcast
  • with Melinda Tuan
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