Policy Brief on Participatory Budgeting at the City Level
The Participatory Budgeting Project is excited to share a new policy brief on city-wide participatory budgeting processes. In North America, PB has spread most quickly at the city district level. The vast majority of international experiences, however, take place at the city level, using a portion of the municipal budget. This brief outlines why PB […]
November 2013 Newsletter: Boston, St. Louis, Job Opening & Your Turn to Vote
Vote to Shape the Future of PB This week, we’re launching a PB process for EVERYONE. To practice what we preach, PBP invites everyone who donates to our organization to decide how part of the donations are spent. It’s our own participatory budgeting process, called PB2 – PB for PB. Last year you voted to […]
Youth PB Launches in Boston: Job Opening & Press Release
We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with the City of Boston to launch the first Youth PB process in the US! Over the next several months, Boston youth will develop and vote on proposals for how to spend $1 million from the city’s capital budget. To gear up for this work, we’re hiring a […]
Mamnun Haq
Tell us about yourself. My name is Mamnunul (Mamnun) Haq. I immigrated to the US from Bangladesh twenty two years ago and live on Ocean Parkway, in Kensington, Brooklyn with my wife and children. I’m working as a Community Health Worker for the DREAM Project at the Center for the Study of Asian American Health, […]
PBP October Newsletter: Job Openings, Big California Partnership & Your Stories
PBP Partners with The California Endowment PBP is thrilled to announce a new collaboration with one of California’s foremost foundations, The California Endowment (TCE). As part of a new grant, PBP will support local organizing for PB in 14 low-income communities across the state, through the foundation’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) program. BHC is a […]
Lynda Daniels
Tell us about yourself. My name is Lynda Daniels, I am a native Vallejoan, I am Vice Chair of the PB Vallejo Steering Committee, I represent the Vallejo Branch 1081 of the NAACP, and I am a member and Administrator at Kyles Temple AME Zion Church. I am retired and work more now than I […]
Johnny Walker
Tell us about yourself. My name is Johnny Walker. I’ve lived in Vallejo, California for nearly 14 years and the greater San Francisco Bay Area for over 20. I am a 3rd generation native Californian born and raised in Orange County. I’m a REALTOR® and have worked in residential real estate for six years focusing […]
Shape the Future of Participatory Budgeting: Our Own PB Process
Each year we ask PB supporters to vote for how donations to The Participatory Budgeting Project are spent, through our organizational PB process – PB2. Do you have ideas for new projects that can help the PB movement grow? If so, join us at an online assembly to brainstorm ideas for how to spend money […]
Save the Date! PBNYC Year 2 Report Release
Join us online for the release of: A PEOPLE’S BUDGET A Research and Evaluation Report on Year 2 of Participatory Budgeting in New York City Wednesday, October 9th, 12pm EST Key findings from the research and a panel discussion about how Participatory Budgeting engages traditionally disenfranchised populations with: Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy […]
New York Election Results: Participatory Budgeting Wins Big
Last Tuesday’s primary elections in New York City look to have paved the way for a major expansion of participatory budgeting. In the City Council primaries, voters chose 21 Council Member candidates who have pledged to use participatory budgeting to allocate discretionary funds in their district through the PBNYC process, which would enable residents to […]
