Submit Your Idea to NYC to Improve Your Community
Do you have an idea for a program, service, thing, or event that would benefit your community? NYC’s The People’s Money is the first citywide process using Mayoral funds for community development spearheaded by local residents.
Submit Your Idea to NYC to Improve Your Community
The People’s Money Idea Submission Contest is open until November 19.
Do you have an idea for a program, service, thing, or event that would benefit your community? NYC’s The People’s Money is the first citywide process using Mayoral funds for community development spearheaded by local residents. Expense funding “can be used for projects and services, and the citywide process allows all New Yorkers to participate, regardless of the council district they live in.”
According to the City: “Participatory budgeting is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB started in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989 as an anti-poverty measure. The process has been implemented over 11,600 times in states, cities, counties, schools, and other institutions across the world!”
Last year, The People’s Money funded two projects in Manhattan:
$262,500 of funding for each project:
– Trade Skills and Vocational Resources for Students
– Housing Resource Outreach
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