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INFORMATION IS POWER: TRAINING SERIES TO EMPOWER

Participatory Budgeting

In 2015-16, 27 New York City Council Members will ask residents to decide how to invest over $30 million dollars of public funds in their neighborhoods through participatory budgeting.

What is Participatory Budgeting? How does it work? What kinds of projects can be funded? Is my Council Member participating? How can I get involved? What happens when?

GUEST PRESENTER

Aaron Jones
Mass Engagement Director                                                   
Community Voices Heard

Aaron joined Community Voices Heard in 2014. Prior to joining CVH, he worked in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia organizing communities of color, youth, women, and progressive individuals around social justice issues like rights restoration and Medicaid expansion. He also worked throughout Virginia and in other states to engage communities of color and low income communities in various local, state, and federal elections. Aaron spent some time working on environmental issues, including fighting for a comprehensive clean energy bill at the federal level and successfully organizing to stop Proposition 23 in California. Aaron is a “military brat” who first got introduced to this type of work when he pushed (and won) to change the rules around in-state college tuition for youth who had legal guardians in the Army. He graduated with a B.A in Political Science and an M.B.A w/ a concentration in Public Administration.  

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