Seattle PB Coordinator

For 10 years, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has empowered people to participate in democracy through revolutionary civics in action and seeks to collaboratively transform democracy to center community power. Our work focuses on Participatory Democracy as a practice of collective governance where we all share real decision-making power rather than just a select few. This includes our work to expand Participatory Budgeting (PB) processes that give people real power over the money that affects their lives. Through our work with PB partners in over 30 cities, we have engaged over 534,000 people in deciding how to spend over $337 million. We support partners in establishing and running PD processes in a range of settings (e.g. cities, schools, organizations) across the United States.

PBP is a newly remote first organization and is at an exciting moment of transition, growth, and change. We continue to refine how we create an organizational culture and practices that cultivate a supportive work environment. We have a Co-Executive Leadership model that accompanies our organizational and decision-making structure based on sociocracy that provides a collaborative and distributed leadership structure.