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  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Learn How to Bring Impacted Community Members on Board

  • Listen to Community
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  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Discover the Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit

  • Listen to Community
Funder Listening Action Menu Tools and Resources to Shift Power to Communities
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: Explore the Funder Listening Action Menu

  • Listen to Community
Funder Listening Assessment Tool
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Tool Spotlight: Take the Funder Listening Assessment

  • Listen to Community
Community Listening Sessions: A Guide for Funders
  • Tools

Tool Spotlight: See What it Takes to Run a Community Listening Session

  • Listen to Community
"Toward Meaningful, Valuable, Equitable Governance," a report/tool from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
  • Tools

Building Boards for Community-Driven Philanthropy: A New Resource from GEO

  • Meghan Duffy
  • Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Listening in this Moment: A Guide for Funders
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A Funders’ Guide to Listening in This Moment

  • Feedback Labs
Participatory Learning and Evaluation Planning​ for Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit
  • News, Tools

Participatory Learning and Evaluation: Participation in Philanthropy Beyond Grantmaking

  • Katy Love and Winifred Olliff
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Fostering Participatory Learning Approaches in Philanthropy: A Guide for the Curious
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A Participatory Learning Journey: Lessons in Building Trust and Strengthening Community Partnerships

  • Anna Saltzman, Engage R+D
  • Kim Ammann Howard, The James Irvine Foundation
Conflicts of Interest in Participatory Grantmaking: Addressing, Destigmatizing, and Embracing Interconnectedness
  • News, Tools

Conflicts of Interest in Participatory Grantmaking: Addressing, Destigmatizing, and Embracing Interconnectedness

  • Katy Love and Winifred Olliff
  • Fund for Shared Insight
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  • News, Tools

Paying Participants: Compensation in Participatory Philanthropy

  • Katy Love and Winifred Olliff
  • Fund for Shared Insight
Advancing Participation in Philanthropy Tool (APPT)
  • News, Tools

A New Tool for Advancing Participation in Philanthropy

  • Katy Love and Diana Samasaran
Evaluating What Matters: Capturing Meaningful Outcomes in Participatory Grantmaking Processes
  • Tools

Evaluating What Matters: Capturing Meaningful Outcomes in Participatory Grantmaking Processes

  • Cecilia Borges Farfan
  • ORS Impact
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Some Lessons from Participatory Grantmaking and Meditations on Power for the Field

  • Sarah Stachowiak
  • ORS Impact
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