We believe in working together to build flourishing communities.
Our vision
As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, our nation suffers from a profound crisis of trust in American political institutions. This crisis stems not merely from polarization, but from a fundamental, intuitive disconnect between the machinery of our Federal government and the daily lives of citizens. Americans rightly feel that the political system often fails to deliver results they can see, touch, and feel in their own communities.
Abundant America is a non-partisan organization dedicated to repairing this disconnect. We believe the cure for institutional distrust is the delivery of tangible local outcomes. Our mission is to bypass centralized bureaucratic inefficiency by empowering the leaders who know their communities best—mayors, state legislators, and civic stakeholders—with the resources to drive human flourishing.
Our mission
Work with elected leaders to lift up needed local outcomes across Economic, Civic and Social Abundance with a Plan for Local Abundance.
Our core belief: Local leaders know what their communities need
Our strategy is grounded in a belief that local leaders have the context, understanding and accountability to most effectively drive outcomes in their communities. We reject a “Washington-knows-best” model of distant, centralized solutions that struggle to deliver at ground level in. To that end, our work is guided by three core principles:
Trust in local leaders: We operate on the conviction that local leaders already know what is needed to fix their communities. They do not need more federal directives, new programs or complicated rules and regulations; they need flexible resources to deliver on those needed outcomes on the ground level.
Local trust & accountability: Local leaders—state legislators, mayors, and council members—possess a level of understanding, context and accountability that federal bureaucrats do not. We call this “grocery store accountability”, meaning because local leaders live and work in the communities they represent, they make decisions and take actions that they might get questioned about in a grocery store, a restaurant or at a community event. We believe that inherently improves the quality of decision making.
All politics should be local: We have hyper-nationalized our politics, with every election framed as an existential threat to the health of our nation. At the same time, millions of local leaders wake up every day and do the hard, slow and patient work to deliver for their communities. We believe the shared identity of place is a healthier framework for debate, disagreement and compromise than national partisan identity.
