Johns Hopkins University listens in on LSA members
Listening Post Project
LSA and its members join in the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies in its Listening Post Project, which recruits nonprofit organizations to serve as “listening posts” on important issues affecting the nonprofit sector. Results of the surveys, or "Soundings," are used to generate informed dialogue, experimentation and policy change. To identify trends and developments affecting nonprofits, the Project sends Web-based Soundings to the Listening Post agencies several times a year.
Each Sounding focuses on a discrete issue that the Project Steering Committee identifies as especially pressing and important. News and other Project findings can be found here. The range of survey topics and Listening Post Communiques are available for review here.
You can download the Listening Post Fact Sheet (PDF, 55 KB), the Listening Post Brochure (PDF, 128 KB) and Listening Post Participant Testimonials (PDF, 723 KB).
The Listening Post Project has launched a blog that allows you to keep up on Listening Post news and share resources. The blog can be found at http://www.listeningpostproject.blogspot.com.
LSA member organizations can be part of this important effort.
All that is needed is to agree to respond to two or three Internet-based surveys per year. These “Soundings” take less than 30 minutes each. LSA is an attractive partner to JHU because of the diversity of its membership. This is a chance for broad and meaningful participation in a national project regardless of the size of an organization. It is an opportunity to create a stronger response to human needs and potential at the national level that is reflective of the faithful work done locally.
A wide range of LSA members have signed up to participate. Organizations not already part of the Project are encouraged to join. As a Project member, you will receive an email from the Project with a survey link for each new survey, followed by complete survey results as the Soundings results are published.
To join, contact Trish Holford, 410-230-3552, with your name, title and email address; and your organization name and postal address. You will be enrolled and then contacted directly by the Project.
Forward Together Declaration
Members of the Listening Post Project and others have come together to develop a Declaration entitled Forward Together, Empowering America's Citizen Sector for the Change we Need. Visit the Forward Together website to read the Declaration, sign the Declaration, see news releasess or to join the online discussion forum to share innovative ideas and actions in support of the Declaration.
