Join PBP at By the People Conference
PBP isn’t holding our own conference this year, but we are convening at Arizona State University (ASU)’s “By the People” Conference! ASU’s Conference aims to bring together practitioners, researchers, officials, and ordinary citizens to discuss participatory democracy! We’re running a participatory budgeting track at the conference – please register for the conference and join us! […]
PBP Welcomes New Staff
PBP would like to give a warm welcome to our 3 new team members! Melissa Appleton is our new East Coast Project Manager and has joined our team in New York City to facilitate and support PB processes throughout the region. Prior to joining PBP, Melissa was Program Manager at New York Peace Institute, the […]
PBP News: Big Harvard Award, 15 Metrics to Evaluate PB, Engaging Students and Ex-Prisoners, 6 Processes Launch
Get these updates in your inbox: Sign up for our newsletter 1. PBNYC wins Harvard award Team-work and dedication pays off. PBNYC was honored with the Roy and Lila Ash Innovation Award for Public Engagement in Government from Harvard University! PBNYC was selected for demonstrating how municipal governments can solve some of our most intractable […]
PBNYC wins innovation award
We are very proud to be part of the team whose work on PBNYC was named winner of the Roy and Lila Ash Innovations Award for Public Engagement in Government! The award recognizes the incredible work undertaken by our partners at Community Voices Heard and other community organizations who made sure that residents in NYC […]
PBP News: Young leaders, PB conference updates and job(s), and an economy for the 99%
Summer’s heat can’t slow down Participatory Budgeting! This month our team is growing, young people are finding real power in their communities, and we’re finding new ways to make PB work better. Get these updates in your inbox: Sign up for our newsletter 1. Young people leading change 8th grader lands $225K for NYC school […]
Workshop with Young Gifted and Black and Student Union
Making participation political: Activists learn about PB in Madison, Wisconsin We typically think of PB as a binding process that decides how to allocate a specific pot of public money. But what can PB offer when there is no pot of money on the table and a great need to organize communities around a given […]
Internship Posting: Technology Intern (Oakland)
TECHNOLOGY INTERNSHIP: PBP is seeking a Technology Intern to lead the development of new and existing technology to improve PBP’s ability to track the impacts of PB in local communities and to better engage end users of civic engagement platforms. The ideal candidate will be eager to break down complex problems, research viable solutions, and […]
The results are in! PB^2
We’re excited to announce the winning projects in PB2 – our PB process for projects to make PB better! 150 people donated and voted on the 9 proposals on the ballot. Thank you to everyone who voted, everyone who submitted ideas, and contributed to the pot of money that funds these projects! Based on our current […]
Participatory Budgeting in North America 2014-2015: A Year of Growth
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#PBParty – meet Participare, the first multilingual participatory budgeting platform
Ed Note: This post was written by Participare for the 2015 #PBParty. We are grateful for their ongoing support and look forward to learning more about the platform in action! Participare, the world’s first multilingual participatory budgeting platform, will join the #PBParty, at June 16th, in New York. It’s an SaaS platform designed to manage the entire […]