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- December 10, 2025
Thank you to the more than 80 community members who joined us and our friends at Healthy Democracy to learn about how government by the people is growing through participatory budgeting and civic assemblies. We left the call feeling energized about all the vital work that’s happening to reimagine and rebuild our democracy to center the power and wisdom of everyday people.
- November 7, 2025
Brendan Halloran shares his insightful thoughts on our September event, highlighting the big picture dilemmas we are all currently facing. He offers his perspective of what would make participatory budgeting and democracy more sustainable.
- November 7, 2025
What are we trying to accomplish here? Development Manager Jane DeRonne reflects on the questions we should be asking to achieve systems level change using inspiration from architect and civic thinker Indy Johar.
- June 27, 2025
In 2025, Long Beach, California, announced the third year of its citywide youth-run PB process. In this interview, we discuss the history of participatory budgeting in the second largest city in Los Angeles County and how relationships of trust - between elected officials, residents, and activists - have been crucial to its success.
- June 18, 2025
There were, and still are, plenty of reasons to focus PB on capital funds and projects. But other budgets and types of projects are important, too. More and more, we are seeing municipalities (and schools) fund program and service projects in particular through PB. If you can spend it, you can do PB with it.
- April 8, 2025
In this special PB learning session, we explored two key strategies advocates and community members can use to achieve this: ballot initiatives and charter amendments. We were led by three outstanding speakers.
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