Celebrating 2024 Successes & Looking Ahead with RE!NSTITUTE
Dear Friends and Partners,
It is with great excitement that we share RE!NSTITUTE’s 2024 Annual Report with you! This year has been a period of remarkable impact, forged through collaboration, innovation, and strengthened partnerships in our mission to create lasting systemic change.
Key Highlights from 2024
Transformative 100-Day Challenges - Across the globe, we completed 157 100-Day Challenges, addressing critical issues in homelessness, healthcare, and criminal justice.
Driving Data-Driven Solutions - From streamlining housing allocation processes in New York City to tackling rural homelessness in Oregon, we embedded data-driven innovation into every collaboration.
600+ Systems Change Innovations - Practical applications of our systems change models generated over 600 innovations, shifting dynamics and driving progress at every level of the systems we’ve engaged with.
Stronger, Sustainable Partnerships - Our collaborations with Yale School of Medicine, Built for Zero, and communities across Latin America and Africa highlight how locally-informed, community-led approaches ensure long-term impact.
These achievements wouldn’t be possible without your support, and we are profoundly grateful for your partnership in this work.
Looking Ahead
We are thrilled about the opportunities 2025 presents. With your continued support, we aim to deepen collaborations, develop even more innovative solutions, and expand our global reach. Together, we are building more equitable and effective systems that empower communities to thrive.
We invite you to explore our 2024 Annual Report to see the impact you’ve helped make possible and the milestones we’ve achieved together.
Thank you for being a vital part of this incredible journey. We look forward to partnering with you as we continue driving systemic change in 2025 and beyond.
With gratitude,
Sarah Robens
CEO
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Sarah Robens becomes the new CEO of RE!NSTITUTE
We are delighted to share THIS REPORT which outlines how the 100-Day Challenge methodology has supported over 100 teams in 24 Mexican cities in 14 states in 7 years, as well as teams in the Dominican Republic and Honduras, to operationalize a people-centered approach to support the resolution of thousands of criminal cases, improve the quality of victims’ services, prevent femicides and build belief and momentum in change across Mexico and Latin America. We share people- driven innovations that have supported these results and how they were created. We analyze the lessons learned, including where we have fallen short and what the approach can teach us all about how we balance the inherent tension between the need for short-term results and the long hard journey to more accountable and fair justice systems everywhere.
A look back at our role as a founding partner of Nesta's People Power Results program as they reflect on 10 years of work.
Multi-sector approaches to homelessness response have been proven effective at more quickly and efficiently addressing homelessness in communities across the country. The research literature suggest ways of tackling the complexity of multi-sector coordination, and here we highlight examples from past 100-Day Challenges where communities have woven together expertise and services from their housing, healthcare, employment and education sectors.
Starting in October 2022 and ending in February 2023, Palm Beach County(PBC) Conducted a 100-Day Challenge® to both house and connect to service people experiencing homelessness and living with HIV.
That is our objective (to protect women and save lives). This innovation was born because we had a crisis on our hands of missing persons; It all started with a viral post through social media for a missing young woman.
Our 100-Day Challenges produce amazing ideas, innovations, and actions that create meaningful change, helping our teams achieve their unreasonable but believable goals. These innovations can be small or large, disruptive, or the start of a slight ripple; some are temporary, and others permanent. However they work, they all make things different, affecting systems in such a way that the changes we see as a result of a 100-Day Challenge last.
Treatment of wounds is a prerequisite for entering shelters and residential recovery programs. Most shelters have strict rules around substance use, which can be a barrier to entry for some; treating wounds is a first step toward recovery. Untreated wounds can lead to infection and, in extreme cases, amputation. This increases long-term health needs and can make permanent housing placement more difficult.
"Holy moly, it was, like, a pop!" - Christy McCammond, Program Manager at Merced County Human Services Agency
As a part of our journey to make equity a central part of what we do and an actionable part of our internal and external policies and practices, we hope to be transparent and share highlights of what we’ve learned and unlearned. We will be the first to own that this is a journey without a reachable destination, and we humbly acknowledge how far we still have to go but share these lessons in the hope that they will be helpful to others on their own equity journeys.
Catalyzing frontline staff to create successful, innovative solutions to complex challenges is a positive step in itself. But when those innovations are taken and adopted in a different area, the impacts are massively increased, and the possibility of wide-scale, systemic change starts to become a reality. This is what happened with one of the innovations generated through RE!NSTITUTE's 100-Day Challenge methodology.
Rapid Results Institute has now become RE!NSTITUTE, still offering the same impactful methodologies and partnerships.
Bringing together four California communities to discover new pathways to helping vulnerable populations move toward safe and stable housing.
“People deserve a seat at the table they’ll be discussed at.” – Sean Whitten, RE!NSTITUTE CEO