eBook

Everyone Counts

Lerner, Josh

2014

Overview

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-for-profit organization that promotes \"participatory budgeting,\" an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 46,000 people in communities across the United States have decided how to spend $45 million through programs that PBP helped spark over the last five years. InEveryone Counts, PBP co-founder and executive director Josh Lerner provides a concise history of the organization's origins and its vision, highlighting its real-world successes in fostering grassroots budgeting campaigns in such cities as New York, Boston, and Chicago. As more and more communities turn to participatory budgeting as a means of engaging citizens, prioritizing civic projects, and allocating local, state, and federal funding, this cogent volume will offer guidance and inspiration to others who want to transform democracy in the United States and elsewhere. \"The Participatory Budgeting Project exemplifies the essential features the award committee was looking for in its inaugural recipient. Political and economic inequality is part of the American national discussion, and participatory budgeting helps empower marginalized groups that do not normally take part in a process that is so critical for democratic life.\"- John Gastil, Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-for-profit organization that promotes \"participatory budgeting,\" an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 46,000 people in communities across the United States have decided how to spend $45 million through programs that PBP helped spark over the last five years. InEveryone Counts, PBP co-founder and executive director Josh Lerner provides a concise history of the organization's origins and its vision, highlighting its real-world successes in fostering grassroots budgeting campaigns in such cities as New York, Boston, and Chicago. As more and more communities turn to participatory budgeting as a means of engaging citizens, prioritizing civic projects, and allocating local, state, and federal funding, this cogent volume will offer guidance and inspiration to others who want to transform democracy in the United States and elsewhere.\"The Participatory Budgeting Project exemplifies the essential features the award committee was looking for in its inaugural recipient. Political and economic inequality is part of the American national discussion, and participatory budgeting helps empower marginalized groups that do not normally take part in a process that is so critical for democratic life.\"- John Gastil, Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy

• Publisher: Cornell University Press,Cornell Selects, imprint of Cornell University Press,Cornell Selects
• Subject: 21st Century / Budget process / Budget process -- United States -- Citizen participation / budgeting campaigns / Citizen participation / civic projects / Democracy / HISTORY / HISTORY / United States / 21st Century / laurence and lynne brown democracy medal / Local budgets / Local budgets -- United States -- Citizen participation / participatory budgeting project / Political Ideologies / Political participation / Political participation -- United States / Political planning / Political planning -- United States -- Citizen participation / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy / public spending / transforming democracy / U.S. HISTORY / United States
• ISBN: 9780801456657, 0801456657