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- 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.
- April 3, 2025
School Participatory Budgeting is an innovative and highly malleable civic learning process designed to build student agency, collaboration, and critical thinking skills while creating equitable opportunities for students to participate in authentic, impactful decision-making opportunities within their school communities and prepare for civic life.
- February 28, 2025
During this interactive 90 minute webinar with activist and author Jasmine Rashid, we discussed the core concepts from her book, "The Financial Activist Playbook: 8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth and Collective Well-Being." She laid out the eight strategies and led us through her five step method for taking action as a financial activist.
- February 14, 2025
We are excited to debut a new multimedia series sharing lessons on practicing PB from our staff, board, practitioners, and field of participants that we believe are important to reflect on now.
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