The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice but it needs some help from courageous leaders to get there.
Ground Truthing - Our Team in Action
Our 5 Step Power-Building Approach
We help you energize the people you need to help carry the case you're making.
We work alongside leadership teams, staff, boards, coalitions, and community partners to prepare for the road ahead, helping them navigate uncertainty, adapt to change, and advance bold ambitions with confidence.
Our approach helps people operate from the energies of optimism, aspiration, expectation, and abundance (the human capacities that enable us to envision new possibilities, strengthen relationships, solve problems creatively, and sustain the effort required to achieve meaningful change).
Whether you are launching a new initiative, navigating a period of transition, building alignment among stakeholders, or preparing for significant growth, we help create the conditions that allow people to bring their best energy to the work.
Example Energize Engagements:
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Board and Leadership Retreats
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Staff Retreats and Team Building Experiences
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Conference Keynotes and Interactive Workshops
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Coalition and Community Partner Convenings
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Strategic Planning Kickoffs
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Introduction to Strategic CaseMaking™ Sessions
ENERGIZE
Establish a learning cohort across your organization, issue area, sector, or case statement that could be phased into existing learning opportunities across groups already convened.
Participants would engage in a series of skill-building and strategy sessions grounded in the findings of the landscape analysis and the principles outlined in the playbook.
Outcomes:
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Shared language across the field
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Stronger understanding of Strategic CaseMaking as a set of adaptive leadership skills and principles
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More effective deployment of narrative strategies
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Greater narrative coherence and solidarity across participating organizations
LEARN
Monthly coaching, strategy, and coordination sessions designed to support organizations as they adapt and deploy the shared case statement in their own contexts. The sessions would help participants navigate changing external conditions, refine strategy, share learning, and coordinate action over time.
Outcomes:
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Sustained field alignment
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Ongoing narrative adaptation and improvement
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Increased coordination among participating organizations
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A measurable field-wide win on an issue of consequence, regardless of differences in policy preferences, ideology, or organizational context
ACTIVATE
Together, we assess the strengths of your current case, identify opportunities to strengthen your positioning, and uncover the strategic, narrative, and leverage points that can accelerate progress toward your goals.
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Landscape Analysis
Examine the strategic, narrative, political, cultural, and systems dynamics surrounding the issues at the heart of your work. We identify opportunities, barriers, allies, opponents, and leverage points that influence your ability to create change.
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CaseMaking Playbook
Take the opportunities and recommendations from the landscape analysis into actionable guidance that helps courageous and adaptive leaders make strategic decisions about how to build stronger, more aligned movements, coalitions, and public will.
STRATEGIC POSITIONING
A select group of leaders would participate in a design fellowship to develop a shared case statement on a high-priority issue facing the field.
Participants would work together to create a narrative framework that bridges organizational, policy, state or regional, and ideological differences.
Outcomes:
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A field-wide case statement that can be adapted and used by organizations across diverse contexts
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Stronger alignment around a common strategic priority
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Opportunity to help build the muscle being created for shared vision, systems thinking, and collaboration
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Increased capacity for coordinated action across the field
DESIGN
The Win
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system changes
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people energized
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community is stronger
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investment flows
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children flourish
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we set our sights on new justice wins
THE WIN
Let's co-design a playbook that helps you and your stakeholders make a unified case for support
If your organization or coalition is ready to launch, scale, or rally support for bold solutions, we're ready to partner with you.
Together, we’ll co-design a customized playbook that equips you and your stakeholders with a unified, compelling case for support—one that inspires action, builds momentum, and keeps everyone aligned on the path to real transformation.
“Our partnership with TheCaseMade has been transformational for our leadership and for our fundraising efforts.”
Elizabeth Dale
Executive Vice President
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
“CaseMaking has helped us paint a picture of an equitable future that is so irresistible that everyone wants to be a part of it!”
Meghan Cummings
Senior Vice President, Strategy.
Impact, and Operations
CF Leads
"With the help of TheCaseMade team, we’ve been able to rally support around a whole series of policy and programmatic initiatives that center equity."
Cyril Jefferson
Mayor, High Point, North Carolina
“TheCaseMade brought much needed structure to our passion. We now have the language to communicate who we are and why our cause matters to our key partners.”
Brendan Harris,
Community Advocate
