CUP invites you to <a href="https://welcometocup.org/how-we-made-this">How We Made This</a> — our annual public event that reunites the teams behind one of our <a href="https://welcometocup.org/making-policy-public">Making Policy Public</a> collaborations. Together, we talk about where the need for the project came from and the creative, community decisions that shaped the final resource. 
<a href="https://welcometocup.org/how-we-made-this">How We Made This</a> is part of CUP's effort to share the work behind our community engaged design practice and uplift the community partners and designers we collaborate with.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 6:00pm Conversation begins at 6:30pm The Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
This year's event brings together the team behind Bringing Land and Housing into Community Hands, a project uplifting the history of Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in New York City, the communities leading them, and the ability of CLTs to support more just and affordable neighborhoods for New Yorkers. 
In addition to the team we will be hearing from, you will be able to meet the advocates and designers CUP is currently partnering with on our <a href="https://welcometocup.org/news/announcing-our-2026-mpp-collaborations">2026 Making Policy Public</a> collaborations. 
The conversation will bring together the NYCCLI team, Ishita
<ul><li dir="ltr">Deyanira Del Rio, <a href="https://www.neweconomyproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New Economy Project</a></li><li dir="ltr">Elise Goldin, <a href="https://www.neweconomyproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New Economy Project</a></li><li dir="ltr">Matthew Shore, <a href="https://www.southbronxunite.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">South Bronx Unite</a></li><li dir="ltr"><a href="https://welcometocup.org/people/ishita-jain" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ishita Jain</a>, Designer and Illustrator</li><li dir="ltr">Clair Beltran, Community Education Program Manager at CUP</li><li dir="ltr">Sarah Auches, Fellow for Change in Design at CUP</li></ul>
To support these collaborations, How We Made This has a suggested donation of $10. All donations directly support our work to continue making policy public. 
<a href="https://givebutter.com/HWMT2026">Click here to RSVP</a>
Scroll below to learn more about our collaborators!

The NYC Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI) is a citywide alliance working to advance community land trusts (CLTs) to address root causes of homelessness and displacement. NYCCLI members include grassroots, affordable housing, and economic and environmental justice groups organizing for deeply- and permanently-affordable housing, commercial and community spaces, and other neighborhood-led development.
Launched in 2012, NYCCLI has fostered the growth of more than 20 CLTs working to bring land and housing into community ownership. NYCCLI engages thousands of New Yorkers each year in community education, organizing, planning, policy advocacy and other initiatives to build a broad movement for CLTs as vehicles to stabilize housing, promote self-determination, and build lasting community wealth.
<a href="https://nyccli.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to learn more about NYCCLI.</a>

The NYC Community Land Initiative

Ishita draws everywhere she goes and documents the people, places and stories that surround her. She is an illustrator and designer from New Delhi, India and is now based in New York.
<a href="https://ishitajain.in/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to learn more about Ishita.</a>

Ishita Jain

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