Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council announced the voting results and winning proposals of the 2015-2016 Participatory Budgeting cycle. During the voting period of March 26th through April 3rd, over 67,000 New Yorkers voted to allocate $38 million dollars for locally developed capital projects across 28 Council Districts in New York City…. Read More
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Learning about Participatory Budgeting through best practice
Aberdeen youth spend £100,000 to improve their lives
As recently reported in the Aberdeen evening express: "Thousands of pounds have been handed out to Aberdeen community groups after a Dragons’ Den-style event. Aberdeen City Council had allocated £100,000 as part of its participatory budgeting process to fund new youth projects and initiatives across the regeneration areas of the city." The PB Scotland website gives… Read More
UCL Sustainability Team wins Award for Innovation with PB online platform
The Sustainability Team at University College London has received an award from UCL’s President and Provost Professor Michael Arthur for its innovative approach to academic collaboration and communicating the University’s carbon reduction challenge. Building on research from Deputy Director of the UCL Transport Institute Dr Tom Cohen, the Sustainability Team led the development of a… Read More
Boston Youth Leads the Change: Come for Pizza, stay for the power.
The PB Network has been reporting on innovations in Participatory Budgeting, and so we are pleased to read this update on Boston Youth Leads the Change on the Guardian Newspaper’s Cities webpages. As reported by Sandra Larson on the 31st March 2016: "When the city of Boston gave teenagers the power to allocate a million… Read More
PB Network Unconference video
Participants at the PB Networks October 2015 Unconference talking about why they believe Participatory Budgeting is important when public bodies engage with citizens in sharing power. Especially over the use of public money. This film includes the voices of just some of the many participants at the UK PB Network Unconference held in Birmingham in… Read More
The New York City Participatory Budgeting Rap
View the New York PB rap, produced in 2012, with music by Drew King, and created by the International Studies Film Collective – Marymount Manhattan College
Chicago Participatory Budgeting produces its own online rule book
Chicago was the first significant participatory budgeting programme in the USA. Under the guidance of Alderman Joe Moore, who was also a participant on a learning exchange to the UK in 2013 that spurred on new PB work in Scotland it has expanded and become more structured, and there is now a well developed website… Read More
Video address by Alex Neil MSP to 2015 PB Network Unconference
Video address to the conference by Alex Neil MSP, Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights. View report on the 2015 PB Network Unconference
How do we know our participatory budgeting is working? Measure it!
A shared language to evaluate PB processes. That was the goal. How best to compare and contrast, and also validate the effectiveness of participatory budgeting(PB) has been addressed in the USA through a new research programme. There are many measures of success in PB but with the release of 15 key metrics for PB evaluation… Read More
Durham CC video on using PB for mainstream budget consultation
In 2013 Durham County Council were facing some tough financial decisions. So they developed a simple interactive board game to involve citizens in these difficult debates. Using a successful round of participatory budgeting distribution days, that helped Durham win recognition as a model of best practice in community engagement, they asked some of the 11,000… Read More