Building a future guided by the common good, where families and their communities can flourish
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- Essay
- Oct 28, 2025
Family Policy and Labor Policy are Inseparable—This Data Shows Why
A new analysis shows that family policy is foundational to the people and professions that keep the U.S. healthy, safe, and connected.
- child care
- family support
- parents
- Essay
- Sep 29, 2025
When AI Meets Families: What We Learned From Bringing These Worlds Together
Families don't just experience technological change, they register its impact first.
- AI
- children
- family
- Essay
- Sep 24, 2025
On Deep Hospitality
Three snapshots from my life have shaped how I understand ‘deep hospitality’—and continue to guide my work at Capita.
- deep hospitality
- flourishing
WHAT IS FLOURISHING?
A life of flourishing allows individuals and communities to imagine and become what they wish to be with passion, purpose, and excellence.
Flourishing is the realization of dignity. We believe that all people possess inherent and equal dignity.
We recognize that the foundations of human flourishing are laid in the developmentally critical first eight years of a child’s life. That is why the early years are central to our work. But flourishing is a lifelong journey, and the breadth of our work reflects this.
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How we bring ideas to life
- Essay
- Jan 8, 2026
Ordered Liberty/Common Good
For common good pluralism to succeed as an alternative to both conservative and progressive varieties of postliberalism, we need a more robust and serious discussion about liberty, power, and restrained government.
- family policy
- flourishing
- public policy
- External News
- Jan 6, 2026
Perspective | North Carolina Should Expand the Focus on Child Care to Address Broader Challenges Facing North Carolina Families
EdNC
- child care
- family support
- parents
- Essay
- Jan 6, 2026
The Case for a Family Policy in 2026
It’s time for a unified family policy focused on what matters most: stability, predictability, and a higher quality of family life. 2026 is the moment to act.
- caregiving
- child care
- family
- family support
- parents
- External News
- Jan 2, 2026
Perspective: How the Economy Can Best Serve the Common Good
Deseret News
- relationships
- social connection
- solidarity
- Article
- Dec 12, 2025
Parents Fear AI, But the Risk to Families Is Not Evenly Distributed
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of work, American parents are skeptical of the hype.
- AI
- family
- parents
- External News
- Nov 26, 2025
Perspective: In an Age of Silos, America’s Caregivers Need Connected Solutions
Deseret News
- caregiving
- child care
- family
- Essay
- Nov 7, 2025
Building an Economy for the Common Good
What is the economy for—and whom should it serve? Can it, and should it, serve the common good?
- flourishing
- loneliness
- social connection
- solidarity
- Essay
- Nov 5, 2025
Building Resilience: Insights on Strengthening and Adapting North Carolina’s Child and Family-Serving Systems
Our actions in the coming months and years must be more attuned to the risks families and local communities identify as most urgent and the solutions they most value.
- children
- climate change
- family support
- resilience
- External News
- Nov 4, 2025
Beyond Silos: Why America’s 130 Million Caregivers Need Connected Solutions
Caregiving in the U.S.
- caregiving
- child care
- family support
- External News
- Oct 28, 2025
New Mexico’s Free-Child-Care Gamble
The Atlantic
- caregiving
- child care
- family support
- Essay
- Oct 28, 2025
Family Policy and Labor Policy are Inseparable—This Data Shows Why
A new analysis shows that family policy is foundational to the people and professions that keep the U.S. healthy, safe, and connected.
- child care
- family support
- parents
- Essay
- Oct 27, 2025
AI and Family Policy: Comment for the Senate HELP Committee
Last week, Joe Waters, Co-Founder and CEO of Capita, sent a letter to Sen. Bill Cassidy and Sen. Bernie Sanders, Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the United States Senate, urging them to ensure that families are central to AI governance.
- AI
- family
- social connection
- External News
- Oct 26, 2025
The Consequences of America’s Moral Drift
The Washington Post
- flourishing
- loneliness
- social connection
- solidarity
- External News
- Oct 16, 2025
Commentary: Flourishing Families Will Give SC the Future it Deserves
The Post and Courier
- family
- flourishing
- Essay
- Sep 29, 2025
When AI Meets Families: What We Learned From Bringing These Worlds Together
Families don't just experience technological change, they register its impact first.
- AI
- children
- family
- Essay
- Sep 24, 2025
On Deep Hospitality
Three snapshots from my life have shaped how I understand ‘deep hospitality’—and continue to guide my work at Capita.
- deep hospitality
- flourishing
- External News
- Sep 23, 2025
Perspective: The real crisis behind falling birthrates is a loss of hope
Deseret News
- family support
- flourishing
- parents
- Essay
- Sep 22, 2025
Families: Our Early Warning System in the Age of AI
This essay is adapted from opening remarks by Caroline Cassidy at the “AI & Family Futures Roundtable,” a virtual convening hosted by Capita, the AI for Good Foundation, and the Georgetown Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues in September 2025.
- AI
- family
- flourishing
- relationships
- On LinkedIn
- Aug 28, 2025
Four Global Transformations Reshaping Family Life
Technological change, climate change and ecological degradation, demographic shifts, and political shifts
- AI
- climate change
- demographic shifts
- family policy
- flourishing
- futures
- public policy
- External News
- Aug 27, 2025
Frank Porter Graham and the Legacy of Social Security
NC Newsline
- flourishing
- Essay
- Aug 26, 2025
Why Family Stability Belongs on the Education Agenda
Students deserve a recalibrated agenda incorporating both schools and families
- education
- family support
- flourishing
- External News
- Aug 25, 2025
Time for a Truce in the Mommy Wars
Compact Magazine
- child care
- parents
- Interview
- Aug 13, 2025
A Conversation with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Without compassion, we can’t call ourselves human beings.
- flourishing
- relationships
- social connection
- solidarity
- Essay
- Aug 7, 2025
A Unified Family Policy Agenda for the U.S.
The Unifying Family Policy series reimagines key areas of family policy as interconnected threads in a shared tapestry.
- child care
- family support
- flourishing
- parents
- solidarity
- Essay
- Aug 4, 2025
Mental Models of Mental Health
Whether we want to or not, we have to reckon with the idea of AI therapy.
- AI
- health
- External News
- Jul 30, 2025
Democrats: From Programs to Policy—a New Vision for Families
The Fulcrum
- child care
- family
- flourishing
- Essay
- Jul 24, 2025
Flourishing and Hope: A New Lens on the Birth Rate Conversation
- family
- family formation
- family support
- flourishing
- relationships
Podcast
In this new series, we explore some of the major transformations in culture and society that are already reshaping the lives of families and the communities around them. Each episode of Per Capita is available wherever you get your podcasts.