Better sidewalks, safer streets, and increased access to transportation won the most votes in Cambridge’s latest round of participatory budgeting. The program, begun in 2014, lets residents pitch, ...

Tufts Student Life introduced a pilot participatory budgeting program this month which encourages the university community to ...

Steve Dubb: What led you to write Budget Justice—and how would you define the term? Celina Su: I define budget justice as giving everyday residents, especially those from historically marginalized ...

When Councilmember Carlos Menchaca gave residents in his Sunset Park-Red Hook district the chance to decide how they wanted to divide up $2 million in city budget funds for neighborhood improvement ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the Office of Participatory Budgeting announced Feb. 20 the eight winning proposals to be implemented in the city. The proposals were voted on by Boston residents, and ...

Brooklyn is a trailblazer when it comes to the city’s participatory budgeting process, according to Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. On Tuesday, ...

An additional $300,000 will support grants for English classes combined with training and certifications in childcare, construction, and small business development skills. Local advocates have ...

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 ...

Voting for Cambridge’s Participatory Budgeting process opened Thursday, inviting residents aged 12 and older to decide how to allocate $1 million in city funding among a slate of proposed projects.

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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 ...

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is calling for the participatory budget to be slashed, saying that 11-year-old children shouldn’t be dictating how millions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year in ...