lead locally.
Deliver abundantly.
What Members Get
Learning & Support Community
- Exchange ideas and resources via a WhatsApp group
- Receive mentorship and resource referrals from Leadership team and fellow Abundance Elected members
- Attend in-person meetups at national convenings & special field trips
Policy Ideas & Research
- Access a Knowledge Base with policies, talking points, and tools
- Get customized support from our policy and think tank partners
- Ask complex policy questions and surface trusted resources tailored to your community with Abundance Bot
Access to Experts
Join frequent webinars with thought leaders and experts. Here are some past examples:
In-depth fellowship
Go deeper with a selective 18-month learning and support experience with a cohort of Elected Members. This program is exclusive to existing members.
What Makes an Abundance Elected
Supply-Side Focus
Aftab Pureval
Mayor
Cincinnati, OHMayor Aftab Pureval in Cincinnati inherited soaring rents, displacement of long-time residents and declining taxes. Instead of just subsidizing demand, he removed constraints on increasing the supply of housing. He won a controversial up-zone near transit and business districts and created dedicated revenues for affordable housing construction.
De-Bottlenecking
Lauren McClean
Mayor
Boise, IDMayor Lauren McLean in Boise went to work debottlenecking, after she discovered her city had a shortage of 9,000 childcare slots. She process-mapped the bureaucratic maze and amended zoning to let in-home childcare providers get licenses in half the time, at one-third fewer fees, with 12 hours less paperwork.
Trade-Off Analysis
David Chiu
City Attorney
San Francisco, CAPhoto Credit: Sharon Wickham / SF Free Press
City Attorney David Chiu in San Francisco used AI to discover that the city legally requires staff to prepare 528 annual reports. He engaged departmental staff in a trade-off analysis that resulted in their recommendation to eliminate or consolidate 174 of them—36 percent. Just think of the higher-value work city staff can perform with all that saved time!
Capacity Building
Paige Cognetti
Mayor
Scranton, PAMayor Paige Cognetti in Scranton took office following a scandal (her predecessor is serving a 7-year jail sentence for bribery) and a cyber-attack. Her city was officially designated “fiscally distressed”. In her first term, she built organizational capacity by working with staff to move all of their major systems and permit processes from paper to digital. By 2024, Scranton’s credit rating had been upgraded 3 times, and it won the State Secretary’s Award for Municipal Excellence.
Outcomes Obsessed Culture Change
Letty Hardi
Mayor
Falls Church, VAPhoto credit: Hugh Kenny / The Coalition for Smarter Growth
Mayor Letty Hardi in Falls Church, Virginia has led an outcomes-obsessed culture change in her city, by implementing an ambitious 2-year planning process, regularly reviewing new performance dashboards, conducting annual 360-performance reviews for executive leaders, and a practicing what she calls a “culture of curiosity.” This outcomes-obsessed city has now won consecutive livable community awards and was recently named the healthiest city in America.
Courageous, Curious & Humble
Tim Keller
Mayor
Albuquerque, NMPhoto Credit: Sandia National Laboratories
Mayor Tim Keller of Albuquerque epitomizes the quality of courageous, curious, and humble. He’s been challenging the “myth of scarcity” since 2017. He also showed courage and supply-side thinking by leading a controversial rezoning for his city. And trust me as someone who knows him, he is a curious and humble leader.
Why Members are Joining
Corey Woods
Lauren McClean
Leonardo Williams
