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 ...

Evanston’s participatory budgeting voting process will close in eight days — but until then, residents still have an opportunity to cast a ballot. Their votes will determine how City Council ...

Here’s what was funded, and how Rhode Island could adopt a participatory budget process in other areas of the state. Last summer, residents of three Rhode Island cities were asked to figure out ...

SOMERVILLE — The city has launched its second cycle of "participatory budgeting," a program that sets aside $1 million in the city budget for residents to propose and vote on hand-picked ...

Participatory budgeting is a democratic process open to most Chicagoans, including undocumented immigrants, but few know about it.

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

Saratoga Springs residents are having their voices heard in how the city spends some of its 2025 budget.

School participatory budgeting is a democratic process in which students are the ones that decide how their budget will be allocated.

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.

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 ...