15 Years: Lesson 3: Trust is Key
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.
✨ Seattle People’s Fellows Spotlight: Hanna, Kalie, Aleyanna!
The Seattle People’s Fellows have played a key role in engaging with youth to get as many as possible involved in Seattle’s historic PB process. We recently got the chance to interview a handful of our fellows about what the fellowship has been like for them. Read what they shared below!
Seattle People’s Fellows in Action
After an exciting first year working with young people in New York City to facilitate youth-led engagement and decision-making, we’ve launched the Seattle People’s Fellowship!
Community-Led Recovery: How Youth Lead the Way
Celebrating this year’s biggest wins: revitalizing democracy in 2020
Giving Tuesday is coming up. Here are 3 community leaders we are grateful for
Investing in the Young Leaders of Today
Want to Improve Education? Empower the Students.
Top 5 reasons Participatory Budgeting improves students’ education. By: Shari Davis and Dylan Welch Autumn is here — and with it, a renewed conversation about how educators, parents, and communities improve their students’ education. Often in this discussion, solutions come down from on high through public officials or people within the educational system. This fall, […]
Summer News: Welcome a new wave of voters + civic innovation
PB increases voter likelihood by 7% New research shows that people who take part in PB are 7% more likely to vote in an election. Candidates are winning recent elections by narrow margins. A 7% increase in voter likelihood could reshape political landscapes. These findings confirm what we’ve been hearing for years: PB inspires participants to […]
School engagement that’s almost too good to be true
Last year, we shared the very wonderful story of how Participatory Budgeting (PB) was introduced at P.S. 139, a local elementary school in Brooklyn where Miro (the son of our co-Executive Director Josh Lerner) goes to school. PB addressed a sincere need at P.S. 139: a need to connect with families at a school of nearly […]