The first citywide participatory budgeting program is expected to launch later this year after a two-year delay largely due to the COVID-19 state of emergency, officials said at a City Council hearing ...

Drawing from a practice pioneered 25 years ago in Porto Alegre, Brazil, participatory budgeting cracks open the closed-door process of fiscal decision-making in cities, letting citizens vote on ...

For Hadden and other participatory budgeting boosters, that increased community engagement is just as important as any specific decision about how to spend $1.32 million in a ward.

Participatory budgeting, or PB, enables residents to directly decide how to spend some of the capital funds in their communities. In the United States and Canada, PB has grown from two processes ...

Online direct democracy is coming to America. San Francisco will be the first major city to allow citizens to directly vote on portions of budget via the web. While details are still coming ...

Participatory budgeting defies a couple of key points about budgeting, to the point that, in reality, it is little more than a press release. Consider the following: 1) Budgeting is extremely hard.

Participatory budgeting doesn’t require a city to add money to its budget — just open it up to public decision-making. “So we can do this at any stage, even if our budget shrinks as many cities, ...

That’s not really what supporters mean when they advocate for participatory budgeting on a broad scale, but chances for the public to be heard are increasing.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a process of including civil society, professional groups and other non-state actors in deliberating over and reaching decision on budget proposals prepared by the ...