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Folks working in local or national govt: looking for support implementing a new Participatory Democracy program? Did you know that People Powered offers mentorship in Legislative Theatre, Participatory Budgeting, Citizens Assemblies and more? 👇

🎉 People Powered turns 3 today! 🎉 We celebrate another year of advancing #ParticipatoryDemocracy by releasing a special video featuring our passionate team and members worldwide. Join the celebration by watching & sharing! ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=F1Rwas…

HBD People Powered 🥳 I am super grateful to be part of this family. Million thanks to Josh Lerner for his vision and passion about participatory democracy, and all the top-notch inspiring staff and members from PP Curious about People Powered? Check out the amazing video below

Happy three years old People Powered!!! Thank you for building inclusion and equity into the organizational culture. Always delighted whenever I have an opportunity to work with PP staff and other member organizations across the globe!! Looking forward to a more democratic future!

TLDR: Cleveland politicians don’t think city residents can make good decisions about their lives. People's Budget Cleveland #ParticipatoryBudgeting axios.com/local/clevelan…

This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life. Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.

Ahem.

⚡️ Today is the LAST day to apply for our Accelerators program⚡️ Be quick — we are close to selecting the 27 participants we will be funding & mentoring to implement #PartcipatoryDemocracy programs across the globe!

Democratic innovations are great, but it’s time to move from pilot programs to long-term structural changes in how government works. This new report offers ideas and guidance👇🏼

Yeah, so I’m not sure we’re quite getting our priorities right…

It's only TWO DAYS until our People's Budget 101 webinar! 🔥 Tune in as we break down People's Budgets and their connections to #participatorybudgeting and #budgetjustice with our outstanding panelists. ⚖️ RSVP to join us at 11am PT / 2pm ET: bit.ly/PplsBudgets101

👏🏼 Stellar work by ⁦Open Contracting Partnership⁩: A fully transparent platform to coordinate & track Ukraine’s reconstruction! Next step: Enable Ukrainians to also decide on reconstruction spending? h/t ⁦Thrive Africa Initiative⁩ ⁦Gavin Hayman⁩ open-contracting.org/news/launch-of…

Just found a 3-yr old piece of bread in the cabinet - kinda reminds me of U.S. electoral democracy, but not as stale.

Hey #democracy lovers: Meet Reema Patel from @IpsosUK. She explains #DigitalDemocracy & why it's essential to involve all of us in decisions about issues like #AI! Read her exclusive #interview & #getinvolved. #DigitalRights #DigitalLife #DigitalFuture" peoplepowered.org/news-content/d…

Every non-profit deserves at least 18 months of notice from a donor that stops funding. You can't recruit talent and plan ahead without it. I am a proud and loyal Open Society Foundations alumnus, but Alex Soros & Mark Malloch-Brown need to be better, less disruptive partners.

Democracy can be so much more than electing politicians. Hollie Russon Gilman & Grace Levin highlight the latest innovations from around the world, in this excellent overview in Next City. 💡 🌎 nextcity.org/urbanist-news/…

Leaving the office and signing off for vacation for a month! Made it to Inbox 2, which I think warrants at least a daily gelato in Italia and daily pretzel in Germany. 🍨 🇮🇹 🥨 🇩🇪

So far I’ve mostly ignored Twitter’s highly effective campaign to alienate its users, but X is too much. I don’t want to stare at a logo of billionaire hubris, so taking this off my phone. 👋🏼

I’m stepping aside from this platform for now. You can find me at LinkedIn for professional news. linkedin.com/in/joshalerner