Participatory funding is the process of individuals working together to determine how grants and philanthropic gifts are distributed in their communities.

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 ...

How would you spend $2 million of the city’s money? This question kicked-off Boston’s first city-wide participatory budgeting process, “Ideas in Action,” creating a new avenue for resident voices to ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. On a Tuesday evening in April, one of the first pleasant ...

(TNS) — The gnarled roots of centenarian trees push through concrete sidewalks throughout the neighborhoods of Freehold Borough in Monmouth County, N.J. The municipality once helped pay the costs of ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. When city councilmember Amir Farokhi discovered $1 million in ...

CLEVELAND – Last week’s midterm elections united millions of Ohio voters, despite all our differences, around the simple idea at the heart of democracy: Our voice matters. Yet in Cleveland, voter ...

In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

Colombia's image is still tainted by its long and violent drug war, but its second largest city is practicing one of the most innovative forms of city democracy anywhere. Medellin is one of few big ...