The Challenge and Opportunity for Funder and Nonprofit Listening Right Now
Originally shared by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy – University of Pennsylvania High-impact philanthropy requires more than good intentions. It demands clear goals, continuous learning, and the discipline to make evidence-based decisions. Community feedback can be a key ingredient in supporting this practice. This blog, co-authored with Listen4Good (L4G), draws on their work supporting over 1,200 organizations…
Embedding Community Feedback into Philanthropy: Why It Matters and How to Start
Originally shared by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy – University of Pennsylvania High-impact philanthropy requires more than good intentions. It demands clear goals, continuous learning, and the discipline to make evidence-based decisions. Community feedback can be a key ingredient in supporting this practice. This blog, co-authored with Listen4Good (L4G), draws on their work supporting over 1,300 organizations…
Harnessing Feedback to Drive Advocacy
As advocacy organizations scale, maintaining close connections with their communities can be challenging. This case study explores how two rapidly growing advocacy organizations—Latinos United for a New America (LUNA) and the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley (LCSV)—worked with Listen4Good (L4G) to integrate feedback systems that amplify their impact, strengthen movement-building efforts, and ensure alignment with…
Amplify your Impact with High-quality Listening and Feedback: New Core Principles
This blog was originally published by Candid Nonprofits and grantmakers alike increasingly recognize that listening to their ultimate constituents is essential to their mission. They understand that hearing directly from the people most affected by their work–and making changes to their programs and practices based on that feedback—increases the impact of their work. Indeed, a…
A New Day for Listening: Funders Co-Learning From Nonprofits’ Community Feedback
This blog was originally published by Fund for Shared Insight When we created Listen4Good as a capacity-building initiative of Fund for Shared Insight in 2016, community feedback and listening were still emerging practices in the field. This made our work a bit of an experiment. Among the foundational questions we had were: Eight years in, as…
