{"id":380,"date":"2019-10-22T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/?page_id=380"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:13:51","slug":"participatory-budgeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/student\/participatory-budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-participatory-budgeting\">Participatory Budgeting<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2020\/05\/pb-logo_v1-300x277.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2020\/05\/pb-logo_v1-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2020\/05\/pb-logo_v1-1024x947.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2020\/05\/pb-logo_v1-768x710.png 768w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2020\/05\/pb-logo_v1-1536x1420.png 1536w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2020\/05\/pb-logo_v1.png 1604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span>The Healthy Places Student Group has taken on participatory budgeting as one of its core projects, bringing participatory budgeting to the GSD for the first time! <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We want to give community members more control over decisions in our school, and in the process learn about this powerful tool.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are currently in progress with the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/student\/participatory-budgeting\/21-22-pb-process\/\">21&#8242;-22&#8242; PB process<\/a> and have completed two PB processes so far &#8211; one in Fall &#8217;19 with $5,000 focused on projects that could make the GSD a healthier place, and one in Spring &#8217;20 focused on making life more bearable for students during COVID-19.&nbsp; Read more on the<a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/fall-19-pb-process\/\"> Fall process here<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/student\/participatory-budgeting\/spring-20-covid19-pb-process\/\">Spring process here. <\/a>We have written a <a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2020\/09\/PB-Companion_09.22.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manual based on both processes.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Image of sticky notes, and writing from a participatory budgeting brainstorming event. \" class=\"wp-image-393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_2796-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-what-is-participatory-budgeting-pb\"><strong>WHAT IS PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING (PB)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Participatory budgeting (PB) is a powerful tool that can help community residents, planners &amp; elected officials work to deepen democracy and create radical financial transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-what-does-pb-look-like-at-the-gsd\"><strong>WHAT DOES PB LOOK LIKE AT THE GSD?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks like having funding to spend on projects that support health at the GSD, broadly defined! What do we need to do to make Gund\/GSD healthier? How do we democratize the functioning of this school? Pitch an idea and vote! The process is being facilitated by the Healthy Place Student Group\u2019s Participatory Budgeting Steering Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-2021-2022-pb-cycle\"><strong>2021-2022 PB CYCLE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We have started the new PB cycle for academic year 2021-2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/student\/participatory-budgeting\/\">Learn more about the PB process.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-contact-information\"><strong>CONTACT INFORMATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Send us any questions or get involved by sending an email to <a href=\"mailto:healthy.places.gsd@gmail.com\">healthy.places.gsd@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/55\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Students gathering around brainstorming exercise. \" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG-0588-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participatory Budgeting The Healthy Places Student Group has taken on participatory budgeting as one of its core projects, bringing participatory budgeting to the GSD for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}