In response, the Brazilian Workers’ Party created participatory budgeting (PB), a citizen engagement process that enables community members to decide how to use a portion of public funds. A 2007 ...

After years of pushing the city of Milwaukee to establish a participatory budgeting process, the African American Roundtable will launch its own. AART will invest $40,000 to create a community-led ...

Somerville’s participatory budgeting process has drawn inspiration from models in Cambridge; Greensboro, North Carolina; and Vallejo, California, adapting these frameworks to suit the city’s ...

“According to the U.S. Chamber [of Commerce], more than 70% of Americans fail a basic civic literacy quiz on topics like the ...

The budgeting process for the city’s 2025 spending plan was marked by some occasional tension between Sanghvi and Public Safety Commissioner Tim Coll. Coll says his department came in under budget.

A familiar face in the Participatory Budgeting process — Saratoga Farmer’s Market has submitted a project, estimated to cost $15,000, for a community mural.

The Undergraduate Student Government Tempe will undergo a new process called "school participatory budgeting" in early November. "Participatory budgeting is a democratic process where the budgeting ...

The City of Cambridge allocated over $1 million to seven city improvement projects in its annual Participatory Budgeting process Friday. Winning projects, nearly all of which each earned more than ...

Somerville officially launched its second-ever round of participatory budgeting on Sept. 20, allocating $1 million of the city’s budget toward city improvement projects that will be voted on by ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque residents have long been out of the conversation when it comes to their community’s budgeting process. Now District 6 City Councilor Nichole L Rogers has ...

Residents of seven west Denver neighborhoods will decide which projects will make the final cut for a $1 million program called the Denver People’s Budget, using participatory budgeting.