Practical tips for leveraging your Listen4Good participation to boost credibility, demonstrate your responsiveness to community, and engage funders and donors Why Feedback Belongs in Fundraising and Communications You need to tell your story of impact. How better than to ground it in the words and perspectives of those you serve? Funders increasingly ask how organizations…
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Published in The Foundation Review Volume 17, Issue 2 (2025) The Power of Listening to Communities By Valerie Threlfall In this paper, Listen4Good Founder and Executive Director Valerie Threlfall will detail approaches and tools for collaborative listening with funders and nonprofits, leveraging our experience at Listen4Good and the growing toolset we are developing for shared…
Our aim at Listen4Good is to give social sector organizations the tools and resources to listen and respond to their clients’ needs and experiences through high-quality, sustainable feedback loops. We believe high-quality feedback practices can provide an effective vehicle for getting actionable data to shape strategy, prioritization decisions and tell the story of your work….
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…
Originally shared by The Kresge Foundation As a program officer, I’m always asking my team: how can we ensure our investments truly reflect the needs, requests and voices of the communities we aim to support? As the former executive director of a nonprofit focused on higher education access and success, I saw firsthand that while…
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…
In May of 2025, we had rich conversations with 100+ organizations about how to effectively gather community feedback in this moment. Below are some of the key questions asked and tips that were provided. Gathering Feedback What are some suggested methods to ask for feedback? How often should we ask for feedback? How can we…
We aim to walk the walk at Listen4Good and close the loop on what we are learning from our own feedback from participating organizations. Check out how we are responding to feedback to ensure our programs and services are maximally responsive to participants’ needs and desires.
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…
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…
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