American government needs to deliver
We're building the cross-ideological field to transform the operating model of government, so it can reliably deliver outcomes in a fast-changing world.
The crisis
underneath the crises
American government’s inability to deliver is the thread connecting failures across American life, from healthcare and housing to national security and childcare. Most people wouldn't use the term "state capacity," but they know what its absence feels like.
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Outcomes depend on fixing the operating model underneath
The outcomes everyone cares about all rest on how government works at the most basic level. A government that delivers, and keeps adapting, means moving from an operating model built for the industrial era to one built for the age of AI.
See the Vision →No single organization can make this happen. We're building the field that can
A field catalyst is the nerve center of a movement, aligning diverse actors toward a shared goal. That's the role we play for the state capacity field, working across the ideological spectrum and at both the federal and state levels.
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The field is gaining momentum
At the federal and state levels, the field is advancing reforms to how government hires, buys, builds, and learns, and we're helping accelerate them. A few examples:
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A challenge this big takes all hands on deck. The field is ready and the moment is now. What it takes to scale the work is capital, and a coalition broad enough to win.