@[695190985:2048:Jessy Kate Schingler] has a great article up about collaborative budgeting at the Embassy Network:
"Collaborative budgeting was initially popularized in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and has since spread to cities around the world looking to engage their citizens more deeply. Those are primarily municipal-level convenings to facilitate citizens voting on spending priorities.
On a smaller scale, community groups like POC 21 and Ouishare, and small businesses like Enspiral Services, Loomio and Robin Hood Coop are experimenting with giving people direct control over certain dollars to spend for the organization.
How do we achieve this on an operational level? What processes and tools do we use, and how can we simplify and automate as much as possible so that it’s not taking up valuable, and limited, human resources to manage the process?"
https://medium.com/embassy-network/collaborative-finance-at-the-embassy-a-case-study-c6376f7978bc#.ml2k9x9wb
"Collaborative budgeting was initially popularized in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and has since spread to cities around the world looking to engage their citizens more deeply. Those are primarily municipal-level convenings to facilitate citizens voting on spending priorities.
On a smaller scale, community groups like POC 21 and Ouishare, and small businesses like Enspiral Services, Loomio and Robin Hood Coop are experimenting with giving people direct control over certain dollars to spend for the organization.
How do we achieve this on an operational level? What processes and tools do we use, and how can we simplify and automate as much as possible so that it’s not taking up valuable, and limited, human resources to manage the process?"
https://medium.com/embassy-network/collaborative-finance-at-the-embassy-a-case-study-c6376f7978bc#.ml2k9x9wb