Girls share their experiences as Black girls with muralist Austin Miles to help her create a mural for the Mending Walls Project based on their feedback. Angela Patton | November 13, 2020 Black girls are one of the most untapped resources we have in this country. They are underestimated, under celebrated, and face issues that…
Elizabeth O’Malley | November 11, 2020 What happens when youth facing homelessness have a seat at the table of a nonprofit that serves them? What changes when they see their voices and opinions reflected in every part of the nonprofit’s mission, vision and values? In Washington state, one organization found out when they started listening.…
P. Keerthana | November 5, 2020 How can we gain high-quality, insightful feedback from busy low-income parents when they have a million other things on their mind? Healthy Start Child Development Centre is a daycare and education centre in Singapore that provides a full day, early childhood programme for children up to below 7 years…
Alex Carle | October 29, 2020 When something goes wrong in an international aid program, the stakeholders who are impacted often have nowhere to submit a complaint. What if there were a way for people to give feedback to aid agencies anonymously and openly, without any risk of repercussions? Loop is an accessible global digital…
Genevieve Hargrove | October 22, 2020 When we collect feedback, how we ask questions matters as much as what we ask. There is an interrelation of how to ask questions verbally to shift power and how that can lead clients to feeling empowered. When people feel heard and empowered, we gather better feedback and thus…
Meg VanDeusen | October 21, 2020 This month, the 2019-20 cohort of Feedback Fellows – a group of ten frontline practitioners from Colombia, Indonesia, Uganda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Mexico, Yemen, Mali and the USA – completed their fellowship. They are superstars who have and will continue to push feedback to the next level at their…
Alison Carlman | October 20, 2020 Community-led: Recently, the term has come to the forefront of conversations on global development, aid, and philanthropy. Many are calling for community-led solutions to societal problems. But what does community-led really mean? And according to whom? For the past several years, GlobalGiving has been studying this question, and just…
Megan Campbell | October 15, 2020 Read more about how funders can listen well on GrantCraft by Candid and as part of the Council on Foundations’ series about implementing the COVID-19 foundation pledge! As COVID-19 spread worldwide in early 2020, almost 800 leading philanthropists signed a pledge to act with ‘fierce urgency’ to support the…
Feedback Labs | October 14, 2020 In countries all over the world, new tools are being created to help nonprofits, governments and funders listen to the people they seek to serve in new ways. In the United States, we’ve seen a growth in the number and quality of feedback tools, while many local tools across…
Nada Zohdy | October 8, 2020 Open Gov Hub is the world’s first meeting place, co-working space, or innovation hub dedicated to opening up governments and empowering citizens around the world. Through their coworking space, professional services and programming, Open Gov Hub helps open government advocates be more efficient and effective, by sharing resources and…