Our Idea Labs are designed to generate creative new ideas and fresh dialogue on critical, underexplored topics impacting family well-being and flourishing. These labs bring together leaders from many sectors to create a roadmap for the future and advocate for transformative, long-term systems change through policy, practice, and narrative shifts.
What do the Idea Labs look like?
Each Lab shares key elements:
- Crucial but Overlooked Topics: Each Idea Lab explores an important but often overlooked topic affecting children, families, and their communities. Initial topics build on our existing work.
- Guiding Questions: Labs begin with key questions that drive research and dialogue.
- Cross-Sectoral Engagement: A diverse group of leaders, influencers, and actors engage deeply throughout the lab, forming task forces, fellowships, or leadership councils.
- Convenings and Dialogues: A series of gatherings and discussions with the group and other stakeholders generate collective learning and insights.
- Research and Analysis: The labs employ both secondary/desk research and primary research methods, such as surveys and focus groups.
- Learning and Engagement: Progress, findings and recommendations from the Idea Labs are shared in various formats and events during the life of the lab.
- Engagement with our Community: By working with community members, the Labs foster dialogue, co-creation, uptake, and implementation in partnership.
Capita Idea Labs are our signature approach—how we generate new dialogue and tools, and cultivate leaders focused on critical topics impacting families and their communities.
How we bring ideas to life
Climate action plans: cities must do more to protect children from the impacts of climate change
From Broken Aid to Bold Partnership: Reimagining Foreign Assistance for a World on Fire
The world has changed, and aid must change too. If it doesn’t, it risks becoming irrelevant. The stakes are high as we enter an era where the very idea of mutual responsibility is under strain, even as the need for it becomes more urgent by the day.
A Fair Tax Code for Families: Improving the Child Tax Credit
In this explainer, we cover efforts to change the Child Tax Credit, which families can use to offset a range of costs associated with raising children.