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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
Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood Video
  • Stories, Videos

Brooklyn Org Listens Neighborhood to Neighborhood

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

  • ORS Impact
Reflections on a Participatory Philanthropy Initiative
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A Funder’s Reflections on a Participatory Philanthropy Initiative

  • Claire Poelking
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
“Can you see me?” asked Artis Romero Burney, a poet and community activist
  • Stories, Videos

A Look at Shared Insight’s Participatory Philanthropy Project

  • Fund for Shared Insight
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
Participatory Grantmaking & Meditations on Power-ORS Impact
  • Stories, Videos

Participatory Grantmaking & Meditations on Power

  • 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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