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: Capita advances ideas, policies, and leadership that place the common good at the center of public life and help families and their communities flourish amid profound global transformation.
Our Approach: We shape the political, cultural, and economic conditions that enable families and their communities to flourish amid the transformations of our time.
To move ideas and research into action, we develop forward-looking policy proposals, nurture and support capable leaders, and build learning communities that can carry those ideas into the world.
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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: Human dignity, solidarity & the common good, democracy, deep hospitality, exploration, and good work.
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
We generate ideas and public policies, nurture and support capable leaders, and build communities that can carry those ideas into the world. Our work includes:
Ideas & Policy: We bring bold ideas, research, and imagination together to shape long-term strategies
We look beyond the short term to identify and test ideas that respond to the deeper transformations shaping family and community life. Drawing on foresight, research, and what we learn from the communities we engage with, we turn these ideas into policy proposals that guide bold, long-term strategies. Our work highlights neglected issues and surfaces fresh insights to support better decision-making.
Leadership & Capability: We nurture and support values-driven leaders who look decades ahead
We cultivate the imagination and capacity of current and emerging leaders who will shape family and community life in the decades ahead. Through seminars, networks, and mentorship, we support leaders who are oriented to the future, driven by values, and equipped to navigate complexity.
Community: We convene spaces of deep hospitality where belonging and shared learning come together
Deep hospitality and shared learning shape our agenda and strengthen our work. We create spaces where people from different sectors learn, exchange ideas, and build trust.
WHAT IS A FAMILY?
The family is the fundamental unit of society—a place to which more than one person belongs. It is a place of generation, both the beginning and the end. A place for the giving and sharing of life. A place of origination: where I’ve come from, who I’ve been, and what I will become.
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