two boards on a wall bordered in red depict ballot measures with pictures and text

Este abril es el Mes del Voto para el primer ciclo del proceso de presupuesto participativo de LA REPAIR (por sus siglas en inglés). Tres de nuestros cuatro miembros del equipo, Edna, Michael y Robbie, tuvieron la oportunidad de ayudar a promover el voto en la ciudad de Los Ángeles unas semanas atrás. También pudieron conocer a algunos de los líderes comunitarios que están promoviendo el voto en este proceso de base.

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man next to ballot box smiling

This April is Vote Month for the first cycle of the LA REPAIR participatory budgeting process. Three of our staff members, Edna, Michael, and Robbie, had the opportunity a few weeks ago to help get out the vote in Los Angeles and meet some of the community leaders on the ground powering this community-led process.

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Deciding by consent meaning no endless discussions and no coercion. A group simply approves a proposal when it's good enough.

At PBP, one of the ways we try to live our values is by practicing sociocracy. We recently worked together to set five major goals to guide our work for the remainder of 2023 by moving each one through the sociocratic consent process.

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan (ARPA), a historic opportunity to build back our communities and economy, with the  potential to address the deeply embedded inequities in access and voice in our democracy.  Over the last several months, the Democracy Beyond Elections coalition has provided funding and programmatic support…

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Hi friends, This definitely isn’t how I’d planned it. When I announced last year that I’d step down as Co-Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project by April 2020, I wasn’t expecting to align this transition with the biggest global pandemic in a century. But here we are and March 31 will be my last day at PBP,…

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