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		<title>Learning from Chicago’s PB Challenges</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participatory budgeting (&#8220;PB&#8221; for short) is an innovative form of empowered public engagement that&#160;has started proliferating in parts of Chicago, New York and California due to the leadership and hard work&#160;of one of our organizational members, the&#160;Participatory Budgeting Project. PB is a process through which ordinary residents decide how to allocate government funds. Residents identify possible projects that could be funded, research them and develop them further, and then decide through a popular vote how to allocate the funds. Initially developed in Brazil in the [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/13958?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=learning-from-chicagos-pb-challenges">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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