PBP Learning Webinar: PB Ballot Initiatives and Charter Amendments
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.
15 Years: Lesson 1: School PB is an Onramp to Civic Education
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.
Shifting Budgets, Shifting Power Webinar: Participatory Budgeting as Financial Activism with Author Jasmine Rashid
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.
Introducing a New Series – 15 Years: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going
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.
Voices of PB Webinar: Participatory Budgeting as a Tool to Advocate for Racial Equity
We kicked off applications for our PB Seeds California program with a virtual panel. Watch the replay and learn more about the program!
PB Seeds California Kickoff and Virtual Panel
We kicked off applications for our PB Seeds California program with a virtual panel. Watch the replay and learn more about the program!
PBP 2024 Winter Newsletter
Our next newsletter has landed! We are excited to take a moment to offer some exciting updates from our circles, give you the latest, and share what we’ve been up to this winter.
Growing Seeds of PB in New Jersey
This fall, we trained community leaders in NJ on participatory budgeting as part of our PB Seeds New Jersey program. The first cohort was a success!
PBP 2024 Highlights
2024 has been a full year for our organization, as we have navigated transitions and taken on new opportunities with our democracy work. Check out our highlights from the year!
Post-Election Reflection: A Thread of Hope for Us Democracy Nerds
Post election, our Development Manager Jane pulled on intriguing threads of unmet needs, the MAGA movement, democracy, and how PB can begin to build the mass movement for justice and democracy.
