The Participatory Budgeting Project

Join the PBP team for an evening of celebration, collective radical imagination, PB2 ideation, and a look ahead with our amazing community. Follow along & submit your idea: https://bit.ly/pbforpbp!

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is an unprecedented opportunity to not only build back our communities and economy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - but to finally address the deeply embedded inequities in access and voice that limit our democracy. In order for ARPA to meet it's potential and ensure investments match real community needs, we must ensure community-led decision-making is at the forefront of ARPA allocation. In this webinar, we're excited to introduce... the Democracy Beyond Elections coalition-led campaign to win participatory practices, such as participatory budgeting, in the allocation of ARPA resources. We'll discuss what is at stake with ARPA allocation, dive deep into participatory practices, and share how we are building towards a community-led recovery - and how you can be a part of it all. We'll be joined by: Elizabeth Crews, Participatory Budgeting Project Erica Perry, Black Nashville Assembly Ben Palmquist,Partners for Dignity & Rights Jonathan Welle, Cleveland Owns Moderated by: Shari Davis, Participatory Budgeting Project --- The Democracy Beyond Elections coalition is made up of national, state-based, and local organizations who are united by a commitment to real community-led decision making power. To learn more, find resources, and see our partners, please visit us at democracybeyondelection.org.

Our amazing partners in Phoenix are LAUNCHING their PB process! Students will come together to talk about what safety means to them and their peers- and make the decisions that most impact them! Parents and guardians will work together to discuss what the young people they love need to feel safe, healthy, and secure at school.... Teachers and staff will strategize, organize and determine how resources should be leveraged so their classrooms and schools are a place where students feel held, safe, and ready to learn! Are you in Phoenix? Tap in! Are you somewhere else? Let’s us know what you think about this innovative and unique process! THIS is what reimagining safety looks like

Join us this Wednesday for our next #VisionsforJustice! PBP's Communications Manager Rahel Teka will be joined by Inez Bordeaux, Manager of Community Collaborations at Arch City Defenders and D'atra Jackson, National Director of BYP100 and Durham Beyond Policing organizer. We'll discuss ongoing campaigns in Durham and St. Louis, what it takes to build and sustain campaigns to divest from harm and invest in community, the importance of centering community-led decision-making. We launched Visions for Justice to engage partners in discussions around participatory practices that advance justice. Join us and be a part of the conversation - we want to hear YOUR #visionsforjustice

See you TODAY at 4pm PT / 7pm ET - for the next #visionsforjustice conversation! Join PBP Communications Manager Rahel Teka, Durham Beyond Policing organizer and BYP100 National Director D'atra Jackson, and Arch City Defenders' Inez Bordeaux to learn about powerful divest/invest campaigns, discuss the significance of building community power beyond elections and share *your* #VisionsforJustice RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBP1028... Or join us on Facebook Live! See more

Wow! Check out this virtual town hall series led directly by young people in NYC. This townhall from last week with a focus on youth mental health is SO crucial, especially in these trying times. Keep an eye out about half-way through (at the 59 minute mark to be exact!) for an amazing #participatorybudgeting effort from our partner's at Coro NY Leadership Center - "It's Our Money!". This PB processes would be designed for youth & BY youth in NYC to engage and empower youth to decide together how to spend $100,000

Tuning in now to hear Seattle community members presenting their visions for a more equitable future. Over 100 community organizations from across the city are putting forward *six key priorities for 2021* - including #participatorybudgeting

PBP's Kristania De Leon, Yale Ph.D Candidate Alexander Kolokotronis, King Country Equity Now Research Director Shaun Glaze, and LA organizer Diana Zúñiga will be in conversation sharing learnings, visions, and practices with one another and all of us. We launched Visions for Justice to engage partners in discussions around participatory practices that advance justice. Join us and be a part of the conversation - we want to hear YOUR #visionsforjustice

We're just one hour away from the next #visionsforjustice conversation! This time we're bringing together 3 incredible organizers from across the country to discuss #ParticipatoryDemocracy, #ParticipatoryBudgeting, and the importance of deep & intentional community engagement. Our #visionsforjustice are grounded by & rooted in the incredible local work of our partners. By convening practitioners, we believe we can learn from one another and build together!... We'll be joined by: Kristania De Leon, the Director of Partnerships and Strategy at the Participatory Budgeting Project where she leads network building and advocacy efforts to increase the demand, visibility and impact of PB across North America. Her work has focused on public policy and advocacy, community-driven programming and engagement, cross-sector capacity building, networked movement building, and social justice. Diana Zúñiga, a health and justice expert, community organizer, and policy advocate. Diana recently led The Los Angeles County Alternatives to Incarceration Work Group developing the Care First Roadmap to expand diversion and alternatives through her work with The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Diana’s expertise in state and local criminal justice and budget policy are rooted in her experience having her father and several other family members incarcerated. Diana also identifies as a healer that works with indigenous spiritual practices bringing in plant, dream, and energetic medicine. *Alex Kolokotronis, a PhD candidate in political science at Yale University. His research focuses on teachers’ unions and participatory democracy in public schools. He is an organizer with Concerned and Organized Graduate Students (COGS) at Yale, and is on the Steering Committee for the Central Connecticut chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. *Shaun Glaze, Research Director at King County Equity Now and Chief Consulting Officer at Inclusive Data Solutions. Shaun is a researcher by trade and passion, with a focus on Participatory Action Research, blending together activism, policy change, and research. Shaun joined us for our first ever Visions for Justice event back in August! RSVP: bit.ly/PBP1014 or join us on FB Live!

Join us on Wednesday October 14th at 4pm PT / 7pm ET PBP's Kristania De Leon, Yale Ph.D Candidate Alexander Kolokotronis, King Country Equity Now Research Director Shaun Glaze, and LA organizer Diana Zúñiga will be in conversation sharing learnings, visions, and practices with one another and all of us. We launched Visions for Justice to engage partners in discussions around participatory practices that advance justice. Join us and be a part of the conversation - we want to hear YOUR #visionsforjustice

We're LIVE! Join now and share your #visionsforjustice! https://www.facebook.com/ParticipatoryBudgetingProject/live

Join PBP ED Shari Davis, Law for Black Lives' Erica Perry, and Natasha White from the City of Boston budget office for a conversation about why the budgeting process is a key point of intervention for justice and how we can ensure our communities have access to the information we need to make our visions for justice a reality. We launched Visions for Justice to engage partners in discussions around participatory practices that advance justice. Join us and be a part of the conversation - we want to hear YOUR #visionsforjustice

TODAY! Join PBP ED Shari Davis, Law for Black Lives' Erica Perry, and Natasha White from the City of Boston budget office for a conversation about why the budgeting process is a key point of intervention for justice and how we can ensure our communities have access to the information we need to make our visions for justice a reality. We launched Visions for Justice to engage partners in discussions around participatory practices that advance justice. Join us and be a part of the conversation - we want to hear YOUR #visionsforjustice

Elections are important, but it’s the work that happens beyond and between elections that really shapes what happens in a community. In this Visions for Justice conversation, we heard from Elizabeth Crews, PBP's Director of Democracy Beyond Elections, Alderwoman Maria Hadden of Chicago's 49th Ward, Laurel Wales from People's Action, and PBP Executive Director Shari Davis. The panelists explored how building true democratic practices into the fabric of decisions in our commu...nities gets us closer to a more just future. Read the blog and watch the video from our series here: https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/visions-for-justice/

NEXT TUESDAY - It's time to expand participatory & direct democracy so that residents can make decisions themselves. How do we get there? Join PBP executive director Shari Davis & leaders in the space to consider how this shift might counter autocracy. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org//should-global-democra/