Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.

• Participatory budgeting

Building on over 5 years of work supporting PB processes across North America, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has created this toolkit to help organizers and advocates start new PB processes.

• toolkits

• The People
• Build something
• Participatory budgeting

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting
• Civic tech catalogs

Filterable map view of NYC's participatory budgeting projects across the city

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• Mapping