How Funders Can Get Involved
Join Us
As a funder collaborative, Fund for Shared Insight is built on the support and engagement of our funding partners, who contribute and participate in various ways.
Core Funders
Our core funders commit a minimum of $250,000 a year for three years and play key roles in strategy-setting, grantmaking, and outreach.
Sidecar Funders
Sidecar funders provide one- or two-year grants ranging from $25,000 to $300,000 a year and participate in special events along with core funders.
Listen4Good Sponsors
Listen4Good sponsors pay for their grantees to participate in Listen4Good, and may make additional capacity-building grants, as needed.
We encourage you to join the collaborative, share your stories, ideas, and advice, or consider other ways to unite with our efforts to improve philanthropy through listening and learning. To start a conversation, please contact Melinda Tuan, Shared Insight’s managing director, at melinda@fundforsharedinsight.org.
Funder Perspectives on Listening
Check out our new series of two-minute video shorts featuring grantmakers talking about the benefits of listening and responding to the people and communities most impacted by the decisions we make in philanthropy.
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Tools and Resources
Fund for Shared Insight is committed to supporting funders that want to learn more about how listening and feedback can inform foundation strategy and help grantees improve programs. We’ve developed resources to help foundations advance their own learning and support their work with grantees around listening and feedback. These include:
Funder Action Menu
A curated resource to help foundations think in a systematic way about how they can promote listening and feedback across the many dimensions of their work.
Funder Collaborative Toolkit
A toolkit designed to help funder collaboratives advance better listening, inclusivity, and equity in their work.
Listen4Good Discussion Guide
A discussion guide for funders working with their nonprofits partners participating in Listen4Good