What We Do
Where Policy Meets Possibility.
We partner with policymakers, advocates, and organizations to co-create model legislation and policy frameworks that work in the real world.
Combining rigorous research, design-driven innovation, and collaborative strategy, we help elected officials and leaders move women- and family-centered policies from concept to law—ensuring they are effective, replicable, and sustainable.
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Governance and Policy Innovation Lab
No two states are the same. No two legislative pathways are identical. And no single advocacy playbook can deliver durable policy change across fifty different political landscapes.
The Future Forward Women Governance and Policy Innovation Lab is a national, invitation-only policy table — bringing together legislators, policy innovators, philanthropic partners, and catalytic leaders to advance women- and family-centered legislation across diverse and contested state political environments.
The Lab is home to FORGE™ — our signature policy acceleration framework — which assesses state readiness, political context, and feasibility to identify where policy innovations are most likely to succeed, and engineers state-specific pathways to lasting legislative impact through rigorous research, bipartisan strategy, and targeted capital.
Supporting Leaders & Innovators: The Lab equips legislators and policy leaders with practical frameworks, data insights, and strategic guidance to advance and implement legislation in their states — turning policy ambition into measurable, durable impact.
Measuring What Matters. Shaping What Changes.
Original Research & Analysis
Good, sound policy begins with honest research. Our original and timely studies measure what matters most in the lives of women and families — from economic security to political power — producing first-in-nation findings that shape public discourse, inform policymakers, and build the evidence base that turns political will into durable policy wins.
The Narrative Is the Anchor and the Shift.
Shaping Public Attitudes Expanding Support Making the Case
Culture shapes what people believe is possible — about policy, about power, and about themselves. Future Forward Women drives narrative and cultural change by asking the questions that haven’t been asked, surfacing insights that shift how women see their own power and potential, and how citizens and voters understand the issues shaping women’s and family life.
Through timely public opinion research, fresh strategic framing, and targeted narrative interventions, we don’t just track the public discourse — we move it. Building the cultural conditions that make bold, progressive policy not just possible, but inevitable.
