✨ Seattle People’s Fellows Spotlight: Hanna, Kalie, Aleyanna!
Seattle People's Fellows at an outreach event with collaborators First row second from the left: Aleyanna' Third from the left: Kalie The Seattle People’s Fellows...
Engaging communities & deepening democracy in
cities and towns
schools
organizations
policy-making
decision-making
Engaging communities & deepening democracy in
cities and towns
schools
organizations
policy-making
decision-making
What is Participatory Budgeting?
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget. It gives people real power over real money.
What We Do
We are a nonprofit organization that works with communities to enable them to decide together how to spend public money. We create and support participatory democratic processes, such as participatory budgeting, that deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and effective.
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Campaigns & Advocacy
Learn, Advocate + Win
We educate stakeholders and advocate for equitable, accessible and significant participatory democracy practices.
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Participation Lab
Innovative Resources + Tools
We support participatory democracy practices by developing and piloting resources and tools.
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Technical Assistance
Want support getting started?
We offer project planning and management, individually tailored training, coaching, materials, and other support.
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Want to dig deeper?
Looking for tools on how to implement PB in your school, community or organization? Check out the resource library!
Seattle People’s Budget Vote Phase Launches Oct 1st!
From October 1st-14th, public voting will open on Seattle's $27 million participatory budgeting process. 18 proposals will be on the ballot for community members to...
Seattle PB – We’re in Proposal Development!
Community Idea Collection is finished! Community members came together and put forward over 475 ideas for the Seattle People's Budget. 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 We are now officially...
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