Name: The People’s Money – Idea Generation workshop
Start: 2024-11-22T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-22T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 112 New Lots Ave

$The People\u2019s Money \u2013 Idea Generation workshop$

Youth Design Center is hosting an idea generation session to help you identify your community needs and brainstorm ideas for expense project
About this Event

Welcome to The People’s Money – Idea Generation workshop! Join us on Fri Nov 22 2024 at 112 New Lots Ave for an evening of creativity and collaboration. This in-person event is your chance to brainstorm and share your innovative ideas on how to bring change to your community. New Yorkers are invited to this in-person workshop to learn about the city budget cycle, identify community needs, and brainstorm ideas for expense projects.See you there!

More about the Participatory Budgeting process...

The NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) is excited to launch a new year of The People’s Money –NYC’s citywide participatory budgeting process! All New Yorkers age 11 and up, regardless of immigration status, can decide how to spend a part of the city’s expense budget on programs, services, and events in their borough and/or neighborhood to address community needs.

What is Participatory Budgeting?

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB originated in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989 as an anti-poverty intervention. Since then, it’s been implemented in over 10,000 municipalities across the world to help residents directly decide budgets for states, counties, cities, housing authorities, schools, and other institutions.

The History of PB in NYC and the CEC

PB was brought to NYC in 2010 by four City Council Members – Brad Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Jumaane Williams, and Eric Ulrich. Since then, over 33 City Council districts have invited their residents to decide how to spend public funds in a process called PBNYC.

In November 2018, close to one million New Yorkers voted in a citywide referendum proposed by the 2018 Charter Revision Commission for a ballot initiative creating the CEC and mandating it to implement a citywide participatory budgeting program. This mandate can be found in Chapter 76 of the NYC Charter.

Phases of the The People’s Money

Phase 1: Idea Generation

From October 11 through November 22 of 2024, the CEC and our 75+ community-based partners are invited New Yorkers to in-person workshops to learn about the city budget cycle, identify community needs, and brainstorm ideas for expense projects. Residents are able to propose ideas directly on our platform at participate.nyc.gov

Phase 2: Project Vetting and Development

From January-February committees of randomly selected New Yorkers called Borough Assembly committees evaluate ideas against equity criteria and develop projects to appear on Borough ballots.

Phase 3: Voting

From May to June, residents can vote online or in-person at a vote site in their neighborhood.

Phase 4: Project Implementation

Winning projects are announced, funded, implemented and monitored.