PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 2, 2016

Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" Residents were also told they could give zero points to statements with which they did not agree, but all seven received points.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Parks And Recreation Engagement Voting 52

ResourceAssociates

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, the compliance documents are thick, maybe even thicker than a New York City phone book. These documents relate to the instructions, rules and regulations connected to a grant award: The Request for Proposal. Auditors use their own regulations to test grant expenditures for compliance and assess risk.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Regulations Fundraising Sustainability 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Librarian.net

MAY 31, 2023

Nationally, public libraries are struggling under constant book challenges in public and school libraries. I want to live in a country where every person gets a vote and every non-person gets no votes.” I work for my town. I believe in democracy.

Voting 40

Voting Elected Officials Grassroots Political Process 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 28, 2024

As the Stars opinion editor, I asked him what he got wrong, how he turned left and why he keeps needling me about my work ") his father Alex, on his new book, Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canadas Challenge. Just look at how few people vote irrespective of the stakes and how many seem ready to burn it all down.

Voting 52

Voting Regulations Public Service Government 52

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Her recent book is a must-read and her collection of Substack essays on Eating Policy (as in “delivery eats policy for breakfast” – think Michael Lewis and The Fifth Risk ) are required reading in my research and intelligence gathering. If daycares end up serving bags of chips instead of bananas, that’s the impact they’ve had.

Regulations 59

Regulations Public Sector Government Constituents 59

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

10] Making things even more complex, it is clear from the recent election campaign that Trump II will also look to support what is perhaps its biggest voting bloc: non-college-educated households, which argues against changes that may reduce the GSE’s role in providing subsidized, borrower-friendly mortgages to those households.

Legislation 69

Legislation Housing Campaign Voting 69