Finding Your People: Henry Grunzweig on the State Capacity Ecosystem

Who’s working to make government better, and how do we help them find each other?

In this episode of Civic Punks, I sit down with Henry Grunzweig to explore the State Capacity Ecosystem, a project mapping the people and organizations working to improve government’s ability to deliver across the US.

We start with Henry’s own story: what drew him into this work and what inspired him to begin mapping the wider ecosystem. From there, we dig into how he’s making sense of the field, what he’s learning along the way, and what others can take from his approach.

For me, this connects to a question at the heart of Civic Punks: how do we help people who care about making government better find each other, learn together, and build on each other’s work?

If you’re trying to understand this space—or figure out where you fit within it—this conversation is a good place to start.

Explore the project: https://statecapacityecosystem.com/