Launching Listen4Good: Shared Insight’s Signature Feedback Initiative Goes Independent
Image credit: Adobe Stock This blog was originally published by Fund for Shared Insight. For nearly a decade, Fund for Shared Insight has worked to advance its mission — helping funders and nonprofits listen and respond to those most impacted by their decisions, so that people and communities are better off in ways they define for…
How Feedback Transformed One Funder’s Approach
Here’s Dominick Dudley’s blunt way to explain why young people like him working outdoor jobs through a California youth employment program need to have good relationships with their supervisors: “I’m not walking down into that creek when it’s pouring rain if I don’t like you.” Through Listen4Good surveys, Conservation Corps North Bay heard from Dominick and his…
Listen4Good: What We’re Learning Two Years Into Our New Model
This post can also be found at Fund for Shared Insight. — In 2015, the philanthropic collaborative Fund for Shared Insight initiated a range of investments to build the field of feedback in philanthropy and the social sector. Beyond supporting individual organizations, Shared Insight introduced infrastructure and field-level grants to make systematic listening — and…
Feedback’s Role in Shifting Power to Those Least Heard
This post can also be found at The Center for Effective Philanthropy. ______ In the past few years, there have been a lot of urgent conversations about the need to center work on communities, commit to equity, and rethink how systems like philanthropy and services are carried out. However, in some circles these conversations have avoided grappling…
