Child-friendly cities prioritize safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and children's participation in decision-making processes. However, children are consulted only for ideas and ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of Chicagoans cannot vote in local elections due to their immigration status. The overwhelming majority are from Latin America. Still, there is a way for some ...
This project supports foundational research that explores and creates collaborative processes to foster community resilience. Current approaches that characterize resilience are engineering-based and ...
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. On a Tuesday evening in April, one of the first pleasant ...
When I look at the gorgeous libraries in the annual Library Design Showcase, I always wonder what happened behind the scenes that led to a particular design. I’m especially curious how designers ...
Sacramentans could soon have more of a say over how they’d like the city to spend taxpayer dollars, after City Council decided on Tuesday they would put money from the city’s general fund into a pilot ...
After years of pushing the city of Milwaukee to establish a participatory budgeting process, the African American Roundtable will launch its own. AART will invest $40,000 to create a community-led ...
Foundations are increasingly involving community members—not just their boards and staff—to help decide who gets their money, according to a national Foundation Center report released in October. A ...
Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defined child-friendly cities as those that prioritize children’s access to safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and the ...
Traditional philanthropy has a problem. The top-down, hierarchical power structure often undercuts efforts to make lasting change. In fact, the system itself can mirror the very conditions that ...