Rethinking Early Childhood Policy: Finding our way out of the silos

by Sara Peters and Joe Waters

It has been 15 years since the death of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York). While at times provocative, Moynihan was a keen observer of the systemic…

5 questions with the Perigee Fund’s Dr. David Willis

5 questions with Harvard’s Mario Luis Small

Mario L. Small, Ph.D., Grafstein Family Professor at Harvard University, is the author of award-winning books and articles on networks, poverty, organizations, culture, methods, neighborhoods, institutions, and other topics. He is currently using…

Freedom for Excellence: Restoring Ideals to the Education and Formation of Children

Do we wish to build a future of comfort and security for our children or do we aspire to shape them for a life of heroism, contemplation, service, and purpose beyond themselves?

The delights of play: a path to wisdom?

Play teaches a child a great number of things: self-regulation and self-control, organizational skills and resilience, to name a few; yet, we do not often think of play as teaching wisdom. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of Medieval philosophers, suggests we…

Capita featured in Quartz

Earlier this year we launched Capita to explore how the great cultural and social transformations of our day affect young children, and to foster new ideas to ensure a future in which children and their families flourish. We are pleased to see our work and ideas featured today in…