Podcast Pilot Episode: Listening, Power, and Cartoon Heroes

A new blog post from the social impact consulting firm Community Wealth Partners (CWP) introduces their new resource, “Sharing Power with Communities: A Field Guide,” full of practical tips and examples for funders. 

The post, accompanied by a set of four audio short takes, offers funders ways to address four common concerns they might have as they prepare efforts to share decision making with the people and communities they seek to serve. The authors, CWP’s Lori Bartczak and Sandra Moore (with audio by Walter Howell), break down ways to overcome funders’ worries, such as, “What if engaging community requires more time and money than we planned for?”

In a second post, Shared Insight introduces the pilot episode of Insights for Change Podcast, an occasional series of conversations about funder listening to shift power.

In it, John Ferguson (Indiana Philanthropy Alliance) and Annie Grier (Feedback Labs) have a lively and insightful conversation about how funders need to use their “listening stethoscopes” to find out what is already happening in the communities they seek to serve; the “infinite number of potential partnerships” that ought to be cultivated to accelerate the work of philanthropy; and what a 1990s cartoon character can teach us about power dynamics. 
 

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