Abundance
for all
A Policy Framework
Rooted in collective dreams
PURPOSE
To guide dreaming, policy advocacy, funding priorities, and legislative engagement through a shared vision of care, equity, and justice.
Why This Framework Exists
The policies shaping our lives today were largely built for extraction, speed, and exclusion. They reward profit over people and survival over wellbeing. The dreams collected at Women’s foundation of Oregon are spoken by women, caregivers, organizers, entrepreneurs, artists, parents, and community leaders and offer something different:
A future where care is infrastructure, rest is a right, and equity is measurable and lived.
This framework translates those dreams into policy principles that can guide legislation, budget advocacy, coalition-building, and systems change in Oregon.
At their core, these dreams call for a world where care replaces extraction, and people matter more than profit. Across every voice, there is a longing for safety, dignity, rest, and abundance, not as luxuries, but as rights.
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Policy Priorities Include:
• Reproductive freedom and abortion access
• Childbirth equity and maternal health justice
• Public infrastructure that supports dignity
(e.g., public restrooms)• Violence prevention and survivor-centered services
• Indigenous-led trauma-informed care and safe spaces
• School safety rooted in care, not criminalization
Dream Inspiration
• A world free from violence
• Children safe in schools
• Women, girls, Indigenous people, Black women, disabled people living without fear
• Abortion access, public restrooms, healthcare, childbirth equity
• Freedom to exist without harm or surveillance
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Policy Priorities Include:
• Universal childcare and eldercare
• Paid family and medical leave
• Support for nonprofit leaders and care workers
• Employee-owned and cooperative business models
• Community wealth-building initiatives
• Policies that value care labor as essential infrastructure
Dream Inspiration
• People over profit
• Post-capitalist, post-colonial frameworks
• Trauma-informed, community-led care
• Nonprofit leaders cared for while serving
• Mutual aid and community responsibility
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Pillar 3
Policy Priorities Include:
• Universal basic income or guaranteed income pilots
• Living wages and fair scheduling
• Health care access that prioritizes prevention and mental wellness
• Reduced administrative burdens that exhaust communities
• Policies that slow harm rather than accelerate burnout
Dream Inspiration
• The right to slow down
• Rest as resistance
• Universal basic income
• Abundance for all
• Wealth defined as health, love, time, and community
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Pillar 4
Policy Priorities Include:
• Racial, gender, and disability equity across all policy areas
• Data-driven accountability for inequitable outcomes
• Community-led decision-making and funding
• Justice Cities and place-based equity models
• Ending policies that reinforce white supremacy and patriarchy
Dream Inspiration
• Ending white supremacy, patriarchy, racism, misogyny
• Equity across race, gender, disability, class
• Women and girls determining their own destinies
• Indigenous-led safety and healing spaces
• Justice Cities across Oregon
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Pillar 5
Policy Priorities Include:
• Mutual aid and community care investments
• Family preservation and intergenerational support
• Housing and food security
• Education systems that honor each child’s unique gifts
• Policies that reward collaboration across sectors
Dream Inspiration
• Community care over individualism
• Collaboration over scarcity
• Family preservation and intergenerational support
• Matriarchal values of wisdom, rest, and belonging
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Pillar 6
Policy Priorities Include:
• Equal access to education, including but no limited to STEM and arts
• Digital equity and technology access statewide
• Support for women entrepreneurs and creatives
• Workforce pathways rooted in dignity and choice
• Recognition of lived experience as expertise
Dream Inspiration
• Women-owned, employee-owned businesses
• Equal access to education, STEM, and technology
• Creative dreams (opera, entrepreneurship, legacy-building)
• Purpose-driven lives with dignity and peace
OUR PROCESS SO FAR
August 2023
Development of Justice Distinction concept - A Framework for how WFO will contribute to the understanding and realization of Justice in Oregon by 2033
JANUARY 2025
Development of Theory of Change begins
June 2025
First AWE Experience with non-profit leaders funded in Sisters, OR - soft share of WFO’s place in Justice work of the future and how collective dreaming can be a framework was introduced
July 2025
Finalization of WFO Theory of Change, WFO starts collecting Justice dreams of the community
August 2025
Dreaming initiatives included in all WFO meetings, WFO continues collecting Justice dreams of the community
September 2025
Public Share of Theory of Change and WFO new approach to Justice work and WFO continues collecting Justice dreams of the community
December 2025
WFO holds annual Winter gather with a Dream Tree as the focus, WFO continues collecting Justice dreams of the community
January 2026
WFO analyzes all collected dreams for 6 months and develops the Abundance For All policy framework
March 2026
WFO Shares first collective dreaming policy framework designed from the theory of change approach to justice.
These dreams are not abstract. They are directives.
Abundance for all is not a slogan, it is a policy choice.
Women’s Foundation of Oregon commits to advancing policies that make these dreams real, measurable, and lasting for this generation and the next.These dreams are not abstract. They are directives. Abundance for all is not a slogan, it is a policy choice. Women’s Foundation of Oregon commits to advancing policies that make these dreams real, measurable, and lasting for this generation and the next.
