Transform the Economy Through Care: Take the Pledge

The care economy—encompassing childcare, elder care, healthcare, education, and domestic labor—forms the invisible backbone of our society. Yet caregiving work, particularly unpaid labor performed predominantly by women and marginalized communities, remains undervalued and excluded from traditional economic metrics.

This Care Economy Transition Pledge Form empowers advocates, nonprofit organizations, community groups, policymakers, and concerned citizens to formally commit to systemic change. By taking this pledge, you're joining a growing movement demanding recognition of unpaid care work, investment in universal care infrastructure, and fundamental reform in how we measure economic value.

Why This Pledge Matters

Traditional economic models fail to account for the trillions of dollars worth of unpaid care work performed annually. This invisibility perpetuates inequality, limits career opportunities for caregivers, and undermines the sustainability of care systems as populations age and social needs evolve.

The Care Economy Transition Pledge addresses three critical pillars:

Recognition of Unpaid Labor: Acknowledging that care work—whether caring for children, elderly parents, disabled family members, or maintaining households—is real work that creates economic and social value. Pledgers commit to advocating for the inclusion of unpaid care work in economic measurements like GDP.

Universal Care Infrastructure: Supporting the development of accessible, affordable, high-quality care services as public goods. This includes universal childcare, elder care, healthcare, and support systems that reduce the burden on individual families and create quality care jobs.

Valuation Reform: Pushing for policy and cultural changes that properly compensate care workers, challenge gender-based wage gaps in care sectors, and restructure economic priorities to place wellbeing at the center.

Built for Advocacy Organizations and Movements

Whether you're a nonprofit building a campaign, a policy organization gathering stakeholder commitments, a grassroots movement mobilizing supporters, or a community group organizing locally, Paperform makes it simple to collect, manage, and act on pledges.

This template captures detailed commitment information, allows for organizational and individual pledges, collects specific action commitments, and can be customized with your branding to match your campaign identity. Forms can be embedded on your website, shared on social media, or used as standalone landing pages to maximize reach.

Use Stepper to automatically send pledge confirmations, add signers to your CRM or email list, create follow-up task sequences for engagement, and trigger different workflows based on pledge type—keeping your movement organized without manual data entry.

Amplify Your Impact

Care economy reform requires collective action. This pledge form helps you build a community of committed advocates, demonstrate public support to policymakers, and create accountability mechanisms for organizations making public commitments. Every signature becomes a data point proving that economic transformation centered on care isn't just possible—it's demanded.