Young grantmakers’ day
Author: Sophie, a Listening Fund adviser I’m one of the ten advisers to The Listening Fund. As part of our role over the past few years, we have designed two grant rounds of Phase Two from scratch, thinking carefully about things like criteria, scoring, and accessibility at all stages, and then chosen which organisations to […]
The benefits and challenges of involving young people in monitoring and evaluation
Author: Sarah Rose, Collective Discovery, learning partner of The Listening Fund Learning and evaluation can be powerful processes – informing judgements and decision making about impact, accountability and effectiveness. They are not value- or power-neutral processes: they are shaped by who decides what impact is, what stories get told, and what is deemed significant. Involving […]
The Listening Fund’s partners – part three of three: grassroots work
Author: Edd Fry, The Listening Fund As explained in our last blog – which you can read here – 10 young people are working as advisers to The Listening Fund. They have designed two funding rounds and made the decisions on which applicants would get grants. The advisers’ first callout focused on youth leadership in […]
The Listening Fund’s partners – part two of three: the advisers focus on youth leadership
Author: Edd Fry, The Listening Fund In phase two of The Listening Fund we are contiuning to work with some of our phase one partners. You can read about them here. However, we also wanted young people to make decisions about what other listening work and initiatives we should fund. This was because we […]