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

At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, the projects for the fourth and what could be the final round of Participatory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...