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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Now integrated into its seventh consecutive year of budget development, PBB is the framework within which all budget decisions are made." The City of Boulder, Colorado is one of the fiercest proponents of priority based budgeting (PBB) in the nation. Boulder has recently published their 2017 Recommended Budget.

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

But how does one learn the art and science of creating these programs? How does one measure the effectiveness of programs, and what does it look like for programs to thrive? Most importantly, how do we ensure these community programs are acccessible and inclusive for our community? low participation?

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Educating Up to Streamline the Grant Writing Process

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Perhaps you were coordinating a community program or project for a nonprofit or local government and needed a way to sustain those important efforts. Much of the remaining 80% goes toward wrangling attachments of required documents, hashing out budgets, and designing meaningful goals and objectives. You were “voluntold.”

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Park Pride , the city- and county-wide park support organization in Atlanta, sponsors an annual conference for park professionals and advocates (they need to do more to get park advocates to participate), which is a great way to communicate best practices and build the knowledge-base of the park community.