Download this section Financial Resources Understanding what investment is required by your organization up-front can be an intimidating challenge for organizations that are new to participatory philanthropy. Use these questions to demystify this challenge.Does your organization have resources available to make participatory philanthropy happen? Discussion Prompts Do you have sufficient…| Fund for Shared Insight
When funders think about listening, they often focus on feedback from grantees about their performance and relationship. While grantee feedback is a critical practice to help funders improve, you can and should use insights gained through grantees’ listening efforts, as well as your own direct listening, to make better informed…| Fund for Shared Insight
Beyond listening specifically to support grant decisions, strategy development, or measurement, embracing listening as a value and a standard will inform all aspects of your work, building trust and true partnerships. Here are some ways funders can listen directly to community:| Fund for Shared Insight
There are many ways of knowing. Listening and feedback practices produce knowledge that is just as valid as data from other monitoring and evaluation activities, and should be a critical component of your approach to measurement, learning, and evaluation.| Fund for Shared Insight
Listening is a foundational component of participatory philanthropy, which encompasses a range of practices intended to involve the people and communities most affected by your decisions in decision-making processes. Along with the examples below, resources — including from GrantCraft, the National Center for Family Philanthropy, and our Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit…| Fund for Shared Insight
Changes within your organization that bring new voices and perspectives into decision making can advance equity, surface critical knowledge, and shift power. Be sure to provide sufficient training and support (including, for example, mentorship and compensation) to all decision makers, as appropriate in your context.| Fund for Shared Insight
See what funders around the country are doing to listen well in order to shift and share power with the people and communities at the heart of their work.| Fund for Shared Insight
