So, some places have engaged in something called “participatory budgeting,” a process where residents propose things like ...

Volunteers paint the octopus mural at Lakeside Landing. Photo courtesy of Mike Ritch, the artist who designed the mural. The giant octopus painted on a former SFMTA parking lot was partly funded by ...

SOMERVILLE — The city has launched its second cycle of "participatory budgeting," a program that sets aside $1 million in the city budget for residents to propose and vote on hand-picked projects.

Melina Abdullah, Ph.D., is a fixture among racial justice activists in Los Angeles, leading Black Lives Matter LA’s protests and actions from the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. In ...

Melina Abdullah, Ph.D., is a fixture among racial justice activists in Los Angeles, leading Black Lives Matter LA (BLMLA)’s protests and actions from the campus of California State University, Los ...

How would you spend $2 million of the city’s money? This question kicked-off Boston’s first city-wide participatory budgeting process, “Ideas in Action,” creating a new avenue for resident voices to ...

An initiative petition aimed for the November 2026 ballot seeks to let Portlanders decide where millions of the city’s budget is spent every year. If passed, the measure would set aside an amount ...

The African American Roundtable held a brainstorming session last weekend to explain what participatory budgeting was and what ideas residents wanted to see funded. This week, Milwaukee’s Common ...

Long Beach announces the fourth year of Youth Power Participatory Budgeting to engage youth in democratic funding allocation.

The City of Cambridge allocated over $1 million to seven city improvement projects in its annual Participatory Budgeting process Friday. Winning projects, nearly all of which each earned more than ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — More than 6,400 Upper East Siders and Roosevelt Islanders voted on how to allocate $2.75 million in city funding, and the results are in, Councilmember Julie Menin said. Most of ...

Participatory budgeting empowers communities to radically reimagine the world. Melina Abdullah, Ph.D., is a fixture among racial justice activists in Los Angeles, leading Black Lives Matter LA (BLMLA) ...