Evanston’s participatory budgeting voting process will close in eight days — but until then, residents still have an opportunity to cast a ballot. Their votes will determine how City Council ...

Participatory budgeting has a champion in Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Mary Sheffield, who has urged Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's administration to adopt the practice since 2014. ...

Participatory budgeting began in Brazil in 1989, when residents of the city of Porto Alegre voted on how to spend the mayor’s budget to address community needs. Today over 3,000 PB projects ...

“According to the U.S. Chamber [of Commerce], more than 70% of Americans fail a basic civic literacy quiz on topics like the ...

Sacramento is officially launching its participatory budgeting program, which will let residents decide over the next few months how the city will spend $1 million in sales tax revenue.

Higley Unified students will have the opportunity to help decide how district funds are spent on their campuses in the upcoming school year.

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 ...

Participatory budgeting, in which residents get a direct vote in how tax dollars are spent, has been around in Chicago for more than a decade, making its U.S. debut in the North Side’s 49th ward ...

Yet participatory budgeting has been used almost nowhere in the United States, where, other than New York City, only the 49th ward of Chicago has implemented the idea.

Josh Lerner is executive director of the global participatory budgeting hub People Powered and an early proponent for participatory budgeting in New York City. “The biggest shortcoming of the program ...

Participatory Budgeting is back for its fourth cycle in Durham, allowing residents the opportunity to allot $2.4 million in city funding on (almost) whatever project idea they can dream up.