A New Opportunity for Funder-Nonprofit Partnership: Advancing Shared Listening Efforts to Learn From Community

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 learning. We will describe the readiness process and foci of our supportive efforts working with organizations and highlight examples of collaborative listening efforts where funders are learning together with nonprofits.