New York’s participatory budgeting experiment shows there are no shortcuts — and no algorithmic fixes — for building ...

Saratoga Springs residents are having their voices heard in how the city spends some of its 2025 budget. Adult residents of Saratoga Springs can select from 11 proposed projects, allocating no more ...

Following Durham’s municipal elections, community members can still decide the city’s path forward through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB), which allows citizens to propose and vote on ...

Traditional philanthropy has a problem. The top-down, hierarchical power structure often undercuts efforts to make lasting change. In fact, the system itself can mirror the very conditions that ...