CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of Chicagoans cannot vote in local elections due to their immigration status. The overwhelming majority are from Latin America. Still, there is a way for some ...

A Vallejo committee assigned with managing the city’s participatory budgeting process is considering modifying its yearly rollout plan to boost resident involvement. Vallejo has historically received ...

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 ...

After years of pushing the city of Milwaukee to establish a participatory budgeting process, the African American Roundtable will launch its own. AART will invest $40,000 to create a community-led ...

Residents of District 7, which covers Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, and Hamilton Heights, are joining New York City’s annual participatory budgeting process, through which ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The Saratoga Springs Participatory Budgeting Committee will be holding online public voting for the first cycle of project proposals from Saturday, Dec. 3 to Sunday, Dec. 11.

What if you and your fellow Portlanders had a direct impact on what city funds were spent on? I’m not talking about lobbying politicians and then hoping they do what you want; I’m talking about true ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – It’s been used by thousands of cities, counties, states, housing authorities, schools and other institutions to boost civic engagement, empower the public to decide how government ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Celina Su, CUNY Graduate Center (THE CONVERSATION) Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield ...

"We see no better way to use once in a lifetime funding [than] to invest in the very people who make Milwaukee, Milwaukee."-Devin Anderson, campaign and membership director at African-American ...