A package of bold policy proposals will extend the abundance agenda beyond housing and energy into health care, workforce, family policy, and more – offering a menu of ideas to shape federal policy debates
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Inclusive Abundance Initiative today announced The Abundance Agenda, a first-of-its-kind educational effort to translate the abundance framework into a comprehensive federal policy platform. Set for release in 2027, the project will produce concrete policy proposals spanning housing, energy, health care, workforce, child care, and government effectiveness – each targeting a specific area of self-imposed scarcity that limits opportunity for Americans.
The organization is issuing a request for proposals today, inviting policy experts, researchers, and practitioners to contribute. Nicholas Bagley, professor at Michigan Law School and former chief counsel to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, has already committed to the effort.
The project is grounded in a set of core convictions, including that economic growth is good, and that it can be sustainable and broadly shared; that policy should be judged by its results, not its intentions; and that government action, when targeted and effective, can dramatically improve markets and lives – but that too much of America’s regulatory system does the opposite, putting the American dream out of reach without delivering the protections it promised.
The abundance movement has reshaped the debate around housing supply and energy permitting over the past year. But its potential as a governing framework extends well beyond those domains. The Abundance Agenda is designed to fill that gap, producing a menu of ideas for public officials, opinion leaders, and all Americans to draw on to make life in America more affordable and more full of opportunity.
“The next two years will be full of debates about how to put the progress back in progressive. But a compelling message isn’t enough – leaders also need a policy plan that won’t repeat previous failures,” said Derek Kaufman, President and CEO of Inclusive Abundance Initiative. “Americans are frustrated by a country that has made it too hard and too expensive to build homes, produce electricity, see a doctor, or find child care. The Abundance Agenda will provide a menu of ideas about how we fix it.”
About the Project
The Abundance Agenda will commission original policy papers from experts across multiple disciplines. Each proposal will offer an illustrative solution to a distinct economic or governance bottleneck – whether regulation, market failure, or policy choice – that holds back opportunities for Americans. The full agenda is expected to be released in 2027.
The project’s scope deliberately extends the abundance lens into territory that has received less sustained attention: government effectiveness and innovation, health care costs and access, workforce development including high-skilled immigration, family policy, place-based policy. The goal is to demonstrate that abundance is not solely a housing or energy concept but a broadly applicable governing philosophy.
Proposals are due by June 5, 2026. For more information, see our RFP. To apply, visit this link.
Advisory Board
The project is guided by an advisory board of leaders spanning environmental policy, government reform, housing, labor, economic policy, and philanthropy:
- Daniella Ballou-Aares, founder and CEO of Leadership Now
- Ron Bloom, General Partner at Commonweal Ventures
- Laurel Britton, Britton Family Foundation
- Arnab Datta, Managing Director of Policy Implementation at Employ America and Director of Policy Implementation at Institute for Progress
- Marc Dunkelman, author of Why Nothing Works, Fellow at Brown University’s Watson School for International and Public Affairs, and Resident Scholar at Searchlight Institute
- Jane Flegal, Senior Fellow at Searchlight Institute
- Kumar Garg, President of Renaissance Philanthropy
- J.D. Grom, former Senior Advisor to the Commerce Secretary and former Executive Director of the House New Democrat Coalition
- Suzanne Kahn, Senior Vice President, Think Tank at the Roosevelt Institute
- Marshall Kosloff, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center and host of The Realignment
- Amy Liu, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
- Jen Pahlka, Co-founder and Board Chair of the Recoding America Fund
- Sonja Trauss, Executive Director of Yes In My Back Yard
What Advisors Are Saying
“Decades of inattention to procedural bloat have left Americans cynical and frustrated," said Jen Pahlka, Co-founder and Board Chair of the Recoding America Fund. "To right the ship and win back public trust, we must take government reform seriously. I’m glad this project is educating our leaders about the opportunity to do that.”
“Too often, abundance and a more populist politics focused on corporate power get treated as opposing camps, but in fact these approaches should be complementary. The best ideas in both frameworks point in the same direction: an economy that actually works for regular people,” said Suzanne Kahn, Senior Vice President, Think Tank at the Roosevelt Institute. “This project is building a toolkit that leaders with very different theories of change can draw from to sharpen their ideas about how we achieve a better and more equitable future.”
“Abundance can’t just mean cheaper goods and faster permitting – it must also deliver good jobs, rising wages, and economic security for the workers who build this country,” said Ron Bloom, General Partner at Commonweal Ventures and former member of President Obama’s Task Force on the Automotive Industry. “I am honored to be part of this project and to ensure that a pro-growth, pro-building agenda and a pro-worker agenda belong together.”
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About Inclusive Abundance Initiative
Inclusive Abundance Initiative is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization anchoring a movement to foster a more vibrant economy with widespread flourishing. We envision a unified, prosperous America where economic and human potential are unleashed and self-imposed scarcity is no longer a primary concern.