Listen4Good for Funders

Strengthen Nonprofit Effectiveness

Support grantees to listen, learn, and adapt. Listen4Good equips nonprofits with the skills and tools to gather meaningful feedback and use it to improve programs, advance equity, and respond to changing community needs.

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The Challenge: Nonprofits struggle to gather actionable data and to respond effectively to community needs.

The Solution: Listen4Good builds sector resilience by building nonprofits’ and funders’ muscles to learn from those they serve. Listen4Good supports grantees to gather actionable data and respond effectively to community needs, even as they evolve.

Funders who partner with Listen4Good:

  • Strengthen nonprofit effectiveness and program quality
  • Inform grantmaking with community voice
  • Build stronger, learning-centered relationships with grantees

Join over 140 funders who have partnered with Listen4Good (L4G)

  • Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
  • Barr Foundation logo
  • Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
  • The David & Lucile Packard Foundation logo
  • The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
  • The James Irvine Foundation
  • The Kresge Foundation logo
  • Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
  • William Penn Foundation
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation logo

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Listen4Good Premium

Our 18-month capacity building program supports organizations to build sustainable, equity-based feedback systems.

Participating grantee partners learn to use community data to:

  • Create client-centered solutions
  • Measure their performance
  • Advance equity

Each grantee receives:

  • 1:1 custom coaching
  • Templates and support for surveying clients, volunteers, staff, partners, and communities
  • Access to a content-rich web app with tutorials
  • On-demand resource library
  • SurveyMonkey Premier subscription
  • Participation in group learning webinars

We’d be happy to share about pricing with you—just shoot us a note or grab time here!

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Learning Communities

Listen4Good manages the coordination and professional facilitation of 4-5 convenings for nonprofit leaders participating in Listen4Good.

  • Funders and nonprofits learn together as they review client feedback data
  • In-person or virtual
  • Available to funders who sponsor more than 5 nonprofits in Listen4Good Premium
  • See a sample scope of work

We’d be happy to share about pricing with you—just shoot us a note or grab time here!

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  • Listen4Good is such a no-brainer. I can’t think of a more cost-effective way of building the capacity of organizations, not just about how to use data and information from beneficiaries, but building a muscle to help these organizations going forward. We encourage all of our grantees to do it.
    Jon Sotsky
    Overdeck Foundation
  • I’ve just been super impressed by the value the organizations have gotten out of the Listen4Good experience, what I’ve learned about how to meaningfully engage in feedback practices, and the issues they’re raising for us as funders.
    Shirin Vakharia
    Marin Community Foundation
  • Over the years, we’ve supported about a dozen and a half partners through Listen4Good. It’s a valuable resource that helps us extend our commitment to listening to our grantees. By participating in Listen4Good, nonprofits can more easily collect feedback from the communities they serve, strengthen feedback loops, and enhance the impact of their work—ensuring that equity and diverse voices are heard. We truly appreciate Listen4Good for making this process affordable, accessible, and effective. Many of our partners have also found tremendous value in participating in listening cohorts, where they can share data, insights, and experiences with one another. The support Listen4Good provides in facilitating these cohorts has been so beneficial.
    irvine Foundation
    Kim Allman Howard, Director of Impact Assessment and Learning
  • What sets Listen4Good apart from other tools and resources available is the formal structure in place, as well as the one to one coaching, and the peer learning model.
    Sunlight Giving
  • It is incredibly valuable to Results for America to be able to better understand how the work that we do actually affects the residents who are receiving the program. [As a funder], you can sometimes feel quite removed from the actual outcomes of the work, but partnering with Listen4Good enabled us to get resident-level feedback.
    Results for America

Frequently Asked Questions

See this downloadable informational sheet about which organizations are most successful in Listen4Good.

Listen4Good recommends sharing the opportunity broadly with a portfolio or group of nonprofit partners. Nonprofit leaders join Listen4Good informational sessions to learn more about the program and decide whether it will be a good fit for them. 

Listen4Good takes the heavy lifting of sharing the opportunity with nonprofit leaders, to spare your time and also to decrease the power imbalance in the interaction. See our Listen4Good Sponsor Checklist for more information.

Read about how the Michigan Health Endowment Fund invites their grantees to participate with Listen4Good.

Listen4Good partnered with ORS Impact to conduct third party evaluations of our program for 4+ years. Scroll down on this page to read the full reports. Here’s our top line impact metrics:

  • 81% of Listen4Good organizations make programmatic or operational changes in response to feedback after one year.
  • More than 70% of organizations continue to collect feedback one year after graduating from Listen4Good
  • After one year, L4G nonprofits increase their capacity around collecting, analyzing, and responding to data on average by 1.3 points (on a 5-point scale)

Funders can learn alongside their grantee partners in Listen4Good Learning Communities as well as through commissioning Community Trends Reports. Here’s just a couple of examples of funders learning with Listen4Good:

You can provide a grant to Listen4Good or we can invoice you for the cost. Some funders also choose to provide a grant to organizations that then pay Listen4Good.

Watch examples of our work with funders:

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Why Funders Bring Listen4Good to Grantees

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How Listen4Good Benefits Funders and Nonprofits

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How Listen4Good Shifts Funder Perspectives

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