Our Vision: Capita has an ambitious vision: a future in which families can flourish in just, peaceful, and prosperous communities on a healthy, safe, and clean planet.
Our Work: We explore the major transformations of our time—social, demographic, cultural, technological, environmental, and economic—and anticipate their potential impacts on families and their communities worldwide. We partner with thinkers and doers across multiple disciplines to uncover new insights and craft policy proposals that meet the needs of diverse audiences. We advise leaders as they consider and implement those proposals to create a future in which families and their communities can flourish.
Our Approach: Capita’s unique approach lies in our commitment to systems change. We tackle deep, systemic, root-cause issues that remain underexplored but are crucial to the flourishing of families and their communities. We recognize that the challenges facing families and their communities today are complex, requiring comprehensive solutions spanning multiple sectors and disciplines. Our work is guided by core values—human dignity, solidarity, democracy, exploration, and deep hospitality—that shape every initiative we undertake.
We live in an age of acceleration, liquidity and fragmentation. Our interest is not simply in how families can flourish today, but figuring out ways to help them flourish for decades to come.
Our values
Our work is guided by a set of six values, and our commitment to justice, diversity, equity and belonging.
Who we are
Capita was founded in 2018 in South Carolina, USA, and is an independent think tank and community. Today, our organization has team members, contractors, partners, and board members based all over the world—from Washington D.C., Denver, and Paris to Cape Town, Monterrey, and Lima. Our team members come from different disciplines and political perspectives.
Our Community
Capita is a think tank and a community of policymakers, advocates, practitioners, state and city leaders, funders, journalists, artists, activists, and more. These are individuals or organizations that believe in and are crafting a future in which families can flourish. The community comes together around shared beliefs and values to help craft what that future could look like. Capita’s community also plays a key role in our relationships with families and their communities and to hear directly from people affected by the issues we work on. We root our approach to our community in our core value of deep hospitality.
Our Approach
Bringing about long-term, big-picture improvements in the lives of children and families requires action across multiple fronts. We focus on creating new ecosystems and spaces that empower others to lead, diversifying conversations beyond echo chambers, and fostering meaningful collaboration across disciplines, political alignments, and short- and long-term perspectives. Our work includes:
Generating Ideas and Solutions
We curate and develop innovative dialogues, policy proposals, and tools that address pressing issues across multiple sectors. By naming and framing critical topics, we enable leaders to take decisive action. These solutions are designed for policymakers, civil society, and capital holders.
Connecting People
We convene and advise leaders, thinkers, and networks from diverse sectors, creating spaces for collaboration, debate, and social imagination. By integrating insights from the past and present–and imagining perspectives of the future–we build cross-disciplinary networks that drive long-term, impactful change, to reach beyond the usual audiences.
Conducting Research
Our original research and trend analysis inform policy and practice while highlighting groundbreaking work from other leading organizations. This data-driven approach ensures that decisions affecting the future of families and communities are based on robust insights.
Providing Advisory Services
We specialize in bringing creative ideas and solutions to the table and tailoring them to your needs. Our team is ready to work with you, whether you represent governments, philanthropic entities, businesses, social enterprises, or civil society organizations (CSOs).
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HOW WE’RE FUNDED
Capita is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the USA. We rely on the generous support of foundations, corporations, governments, and individuals. We provide more details about our finances on our funding page.
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