The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, known as FREE, is hosting an event called “It’s Your Money, You Decide,” aimed at giving everyday residents a direct role in budget decisions. Tulsa Mayor ...

Participatory budgeting, which allows residents to have a say in government spending, continues to grow around the world. The ...

City Council’s participatory budgeting program is gearing up for its sixth season, with 10 Brooklyn districts participating this year. (Participating districts are ...

The winners of last week’s vote for Participatory Budgeting for District 33 are in! Coming in first was a proposal for district-wide tree planting, an initiative that will receive $100,000. $200,000 ...

The district has set aside $500,000 for a participatory budget program in which residents will have an opportunity to submit ideas and vote on the category of projects they want prioritized.

When the Department of Education failed to fix four rusty, JFK-era sinks in P.S. 282’s kindergarten classrooms, Park Slope voters stepped in. When the Department of Transportation failed to set aside ...

If Portland residents were given access to a percentage of the city’s budget to work on projects most important to them, what would they choose? According to participatory budgeting (PB) advocates, ...

In Saratoga Springs, $50,000 of city money has been set aside this year for a process known as participatory budgeting. The program allows residents to pick which projects proposed by fellow citizens ...

Both Councilman Brad Lander and Shehab Chowdhury, one of the volunteer facilitators, tried to put it politely, but arts-related projects haven’t fared well in the participatory budgeting process in ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — This year marks the third year for Participatory Budgeting in the Spa City, and this year more projects than ever before were submitted. At the Dec. 3 City Council meeting, ...