TheCaseMade

To my many friends working to end homelessness, I wrote a little something for you -- with love and a deep commitment to you in 2025. 😘 #reimaginehowjusticewins

What amazing things can happen when you get people to lean into their identities as problem-solvers and heroes of the story? 🏆 Here, Dr. Tiffany Manuel talks to Cyril Jefferson, mayor of High Point, NC, about how community members there are working together to embrace the complexity of their shared history, reimagine who they are as a community, and chart a path to a stronger future for everyone. One way they've done that involved looking at empty plots of land and envisioning something bigger and better that has benefited the entire community, in more than one way. 🥗 Watch that story below 👇 Then catch the full episode of Fierce CaseMaking at https://lnkd.in/erke8puQ

Need a feel-good message to round out your year? Let us introduce you to CaseMaker Marie Condron! 🫶 Read her full casemaking journey here: https://bit.ly/4izM7oG She's principal and co-founder of Ocean & Mountain, a Los Angeles communications consulting agency advancing social justice causes. And Strategic CaseMaking™ is one of the tools she uses to give more people equal access to the knowledge and power to change their lives and communities and solve problems like housing scarcity and homelessness.   We recently talked to her about what makes the L.A. area special, the changes she’d like to see in her lifetime to make it a great place for everyone, and what she’s grateful for right now. Here's a little of what she told us: 🌴 "I love that L.A. is a laboratory of policy experiments to make our systems more just and equitable. There's amazing work being done that, scaled up to meet the need, will be transformational. My hope is that I'll see more change in my lifetime to make our community a place of greater prosperity for everyone, revitalizing and caring for each other and our shared spaces in new ways."   🌴"That would look like a big increase in affordable homes—especially homes offering special support to those exiting foster care and incarceration, homes for older adults, and homes for those with special needs." 🌴"It would include radically expanding access to home ownership for people of color, to repair the wrongs of the past when they were deliberately excluded. It would include moving toward all renewable energy to further restore our air, water, and land." 🌴"And it would look like closing our central jails and juvenile detention centers and replacing them with the models of care and support that we know would make all of us safer." 🌴"At a time when a lot of America can't even agree on what is true, I think CaseMaking is a valuable practice and shows a way to be both grounded in data and persuasive." 👏 👏 👏 https://bit.ly/4izM7oG We look forward to introducing you to more amazing CaseMakers in the new year! #CaseMaking #justice #losangeles

Dr. Tiffany Manuel spends a lot of time in airports flying to all corners of the country to talk about JUSTICE. Maybe that's why, when she thought about how we need to make a stronger case for racial justice, she came up with her newest framework: The Racial Justice Runway. ❤️ It's a step-by-step process for building will for racial equity, healing, and redress. ✈️ First: Pull away from the gate by naming the elephant in the room: race. Introduce race in conversations about the decisions we are making for our future. ✈️ Then: Begin your taxi by recognizing racial power imbalances. Build a shared understanding of the way historical and present-day racism affect access to power and opportunity. ✈️ Now: Increase your acceleration by strengthening support for solutions that advance racial equity. ✈️ Finally: Lift off by building support to redress the harm of racialized policies and create abundant opportunities for thriving. Want us to help you learn how to use this powerful framework to get people on the road to change in your community? Get in touch 📧

Many congratulations to leaders from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Eau Claire, WI, Champaign, IL, and the Cross Community Climate Collaborative in Cook County, IL. We're so proud of you! 🎉 The 2024 cohort of the Equitable Development Data Insight Training Initiative (EDDIT) made their amazing final presentations last week. We loved seeing how Strategic CaseMaking™ and data storytelling are helping them build will among they people they need to make their cities and counties work for everyone. ❤️ They are paving the way toward 💡 A downtown for everyone in Halifax 💡Equitable community investments to reduce gun violence in Champaign 💡Transit that boosts quality of life and economic growth in Eau Claire 💡 A just transition to green landscaping technology and a healthier and more resilient western Cook County EDDIT is run by School of Cities, University of Toronto and Center for Community Innovation, UC Berkeley and supported by RWJF. Thank you for letting us be a part of these communities' journeys to justice!

Wherever your community is on the journey to the thriving future we all deserve, success depends on two things: Intentional ⚡stewardship⚡ AND strong ⚡Strategic CaseMaking™⚡ This year, we were honored to work with The Rippel Foundation and interview dozens of experts in democracy, health care, and economic opportunity to launch a new effort. It has a simple goal: grow the skills of the people who have been called to the work of creating a thriving future for everyone. People like you! We aim to support anyone who wants to nurture the environments where more of the things that keep us healthy, thriving, and connected can flourish.   ⛏️ In some places, that means we’ll need to break up the (metaphorical!) hard surfaces that make it difficult for thriving people to grow--and scale more resources for well-being. 🌳 In other places, it means (metaphorically!) planting new life in pastures that have been long forgotten, are underused, or are under-resourced.  🌱 In still other places, it means bringing more (metaphorical!) seeds and more gardeners to our existing fields, so that we can scale what is already growing.   Check out the Building the Will to Thrive Together Playbook to learn more about why we think stewardship and CaseMaking are essential now and how you can use them to advance your work. 👇

Oh, the places we've been in 2024! One of our favorite things to do is to visit YOU to share Strategic CaseMaking™ strategies, skills, and principles. And we did a lot of that this year! ✈️ Plus, we brought our whole team together to plan what great stuff we're bringing you in the months and years ahead. Here we are in some of the places we visited: ✨ New Orleans, Greenwood, SC, and Tallahassee, FL, with Data Across Sectors for Health ✨ Kansas City at our retreat ✨ Chicago, Eau Claire, WI, Champaign, IL, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Toronto with School of Cities, University of Toronto and Center for Community Innovation, UC Berkeley's Equitable Development Data Insight Training project ✨ Atlanta with The Rippel Foundation ✨ Orlando for the Florida Coalition to End Homelessness conference ✨ Washington, DC, for the National Alliance to End Homelessness conference ✨Keystone, CO, with The Colorado Health Foundation ✨ Birmingham, AL, with Enterprise Community Partners ✨ Milwaukee for the CFLeads gun violence prevention convening ✨ Long Beach, CA, with Housing California ✨ San Francisco with National Alliance to End Homelessness ✨ Minnesota at the Midwest Community Land Trust Conference We'd love the opportunity to come to YOUR community next year ❤️ #worktrip #strategiccasemaking #businesstravel #packyoursuitcase Dr. Tiffany Manuel Jennifer L. Rich Mariel Ferreiro Samara Crawford Herrera Eman Quotah Joanna Mimi Choi Lindsay Knotts (emerita team member 🥰 )

"Our nation has all the resources we need to affordably house and connect all of us to the resources we need for well-being."--DrT #jordanneely #endhomelessness

Time is a powerful force. ⌛ 🛣️ In Strategic CaseMaking™, we talk about naming the power of the moment we are in now to shape the future ahead of us. ⌚ And earlier this year, for her Fierce CaseMaking video series, Dr. Tiffany Manuel talked to Rasheedah Phillips of PolicyLink about the role time plays in both our path toward a better future and the inequities people experience today. 💫 We love that Rasheedah uses Afrofuturism as a frame for thinking about, and advocating to change, housing injustice. How do you think about time in your work? The full conversation is at https://lnkd.in/gYb2n3rc

I am not exaggerating when I say this was the most passionate, most meaningful, most reflective, and most FUN interview I've done in at least two years. Huge thanks to Dr. Tiffany Manuel for the invitation into this conversation, and Samara Crawford Herrera for essential behind-the-scenes helps. https://lnkd.in/eSvdw3-x In one short hour, we covered: ✅ Democracy as a verb -- something we DO, not something we HAVE ☑️ How humans have been wired for story since the very beginning ✅ Why you can drive through any neighborhood in the US and see advertisements for "early childhood education" rather than "babysitting" -- because advocates successfully connected a policy goal to parents' universal dreams and aspirations for their children. ☑️The blindspots of middle-aged white people (like me!) and how they have historically shaped young adults' college opportunities ✅Why sometimes you can have the smartest policy person in the world, with all the facts and figures, but what you REALLY need is a theater kid. Please watch. And please check out Dr. T's book, THE CASE MADE! https://lnkd.in/etzmPrjt