What We Do

The Participatory Budgeting Project provides support and technical assistance to local governments and organizations that are interested in starting participatory budgeting processes in the U.S. and Canada. Josh Lerner and Gianpaolo Baiocchi founded the organization in 2006, first as an online resource center. During its transition from a resource center to a consulting organization, the PBP has received institutional support from The Watson Institute in Providence and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC.