More than 83 million children move through institutions each day…
With children as our moral center, we see institutional design as child development.
We advance an ecosystem of cross-sector institutions serving the 0-21 lifespan.
We work with leaders ready to make child development visible.
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Schools, colleges, universities, museums that shape academic learning.
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Clinical and public health settings that shape children’s physical, mental, and developmental well-being.
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Digital and broadcast environments that influence how children see themselves, others, and the world.
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The primary relationships and caregiving structures that anchor early development and daily life.
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Work, income, and material conditions that shape what families and children can access and sustain.
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Policies, laws, and public institutions that define rights, protections, and the conditions of childhood.
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Structured environments where physical development, discipline, competition, and identity are shaped through sport and movement.
Our work operates as a continuous cycle of insight, reflection, evaluation, and redesign.
Produces public insight on how institutions shape childhood and tracks conditions over time.
Supports leaders in redesigning institutions toward a child-centered vision including student leaders transitioning to high school, college, and early adulthood.
Measures institutions against the Conditions of Child-Centered Institutional Design.
Implements sustained institutional change through hands-on partnership.
