The Better Budget Alliance is a people-powered coalition in Boston, MA to make Boston's budget more transparent, accountable and democratic.
Joined July 2021
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16 Jul 2024
Boston #ParticipatoryBudgeting is live! 'Til 7/31, submit your ideas to improve your community. For generations, our communities haven't been equally funded, esp working-class Black, Brown & immigrant areas. Share ideas & improve underserved neighborhoods: participate.boston.gov
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
2 Apr 2025
TONIGHT: As we begin the FY26 budget process,
@VoteWorrell & I will host District 2 Listening Sessions to hear your thoughts & budget priorities. The first session will focus on the South End Wed 4/2 @ 5:30pm @ Cathedral of the Holy Cross Activity Room, 75 Union Park St. #bospoli
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Team Worrell is hitting the district this Saturday from 12–3 PM for budget tabling! We’ll be at Grove Hall and Stop & Shop in Roslindale—stop by, share your priorities, and help shape the City of Boston’s budget. Your voice matters!
#BostonBudget #D4Worrell #YourBudgetYourVoice
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
26 Feb 2025
New: Boston unveils the five* winning projects from the city's first-ever Participatory Budget cycle, in which residents voted directly on how to spend $2 million:
(The city is also partially funding the sixth-place finisher in order to spend the full $2 million.)
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
24 Feb 2025
🌟Exciting opportunity! The Center for Economic Democracy is seeking a Co-Executive Director to help drive transformative change in the fight for economic democracy & racial justice.
Apply today: dsgco.com/search/21989-cente… 🚀
#NonprofitJobs #SolidarityEconomy #SocialJustice
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
Join this free in-person community meeting on Development Without Displacementpart of the Boston Redline 87 Black History Month Event Series, in response to the City of Boston Displacement Plan & Squares & Streets Rezoning. To RSVP and for more info visit linktr.ee/afrimericanone
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
15 Feb 2025
Interested in learning about employee ownership? Join the Massachusetts Center for Employee Ownership Greater Boston Regional Symposium.
Fri, Feb. 28
9:30-11:30 am
Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave, Sullivan Chamber, 2nd floor
More on MassCEO: bit.ly/4hqa017
ALT Illustration of one person standing in front of a check out register with another person behind the register waving. City of Cambridge Community Development Department logo. MA Center for Employee Ownership (MassCEO) logo. Text reading: Massachusetts Center for Employee Ownership Greater Boston Symposium Friday, February 28, 2025 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Cambridge City Hall 795 Massachusetts Ave, Sullivan Chamber, 2nd Floor
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13 Feb 2025
We're on WBUR's podcast "The Common" today!🎙️
How do Boston residents have power to invest the City's $ in our neighborhoods? Hear our steering committee member Kendra Patterson of @MassBudget break it down: wbur.org/the-common/2025/02/…
Then GO VOTE Y'ALL @ bit.ly/BostonVote!
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
Calling all Bostonians! 📢
The last day to vote for our participatory budgeting process is coming up this SATURDAY 2/15! Vote now at the link below.
17 Jan 2025
⏰ Hey Boston: Voting is now LIVE for #ParticipatoryBudgeting. Now thru Feb. 15th, vote on your top 5 ideas among 15 envisioned by Boston residents!
And follow @BBA_Boston to join the movement for people power in Boston's City budget.
VOTE: participate.budget.boston.go…
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
Boston residents, VOTE for #ParticipatoryBudgeting now thru February 15 🗳️! CLVU is part of the Better Budget Alliance (BBA) @BBA_Boston and we want to make sure you vote for your top 5 of these 14 projects to benefit our communities! VOTE HERE: participate.budget.boston.go…
#BosPoli
17 Jan 2025
⏰ Hey Boston: Voting is now LIVE for #ParticipatoryBudgeting. Now thru Feb. 15th, vote on your top 5 ideas among 15 envisioned by Boston residents!
And follow @BBA_Boston to join the movement for people power in Boston's City budget.
VOTE: participate.budget.boston.go…
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
CLEARING UP THE FAKE INFORMATION CIRCULATING YESTERDAY:
Since the night of Wednesday, 1/29/2025, messages have been circulating in Metrowest and beyond, warning of a suspected major ICE operation on January 30, 2025. These messages mention backups on major roads, drones...(1/3)
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Participatory budget voting OPEN NOW! Want youth jobs? VOTE. Want elderly services? VOTE and much MORE. #bospoli THANKS @BBA_Boston @RTTCBoston @MAVoterTable @yjpubos @justicehealing @Center4EconDem
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
17 Jan 2025
⏰ Hey Boston: Voting is now LIVE for #ParticipatoryBudgeting. Now thru Feb. 15th, vote on your top 5 ideas among 15 envisioned by Boston residents!
And follow @BBA_Boston to join the movement for people power in Boston's City budget.
VOTE: participate.budget.boston.go…
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
17 Jan 2025
Ideas in Action is the City's new Participatory Budgeting initiative, where residents can decide how to spend a part of the City’s budget. Make your voice heard. Cast your vote today! participate.budget.boston.go…
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
14 Jan 2025
From January 15 to February 15, 2025, Boston residents can VOTE and decide on how $2 million in Participatory Budgeting funds will be invested in community-driven projects across the City.
Visit Boston.gov/participate, get to know project ideas, and vote for up to 5 of them.
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
16 Dec 2024
One year after reforming police details, Boston inching toward hiring civilian flaggers wgbh.org/news/local/2024-12-…
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The Boston Acquisition Fund will provide developers with low-interest loans to purchase multi-family housing in the city to protect current occupants from being uprooted: wgbh.org/news/local/2024-12-…
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Better Budget Alliance Boston retweeted
10 Dec 2024
black boston could’ve had its own city. the ballot question to form mandela, mass. failed twice at the polls, but the ideas behind it have survived 40 years later.
for @BostonGlobe:
bostonglobe.com/2024/12/10/m…
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11 Dec 2024
BREAKING: Boston City Councilors @LizBreadon & @juliaforboston have filed a resolution to free the $5M for #ParticipatoryBudgeting. Our coalition calls on the Council to pass the resolution w/ overwhelming majority support.
CONTACT YOUR COUNCILOR! Use our petition form in bio.
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11 Dec 2024
READ OUR NEW OP-ED on why @MayorWu & City Council should release all the $ in the #ParticipatoryBudgeting fund for winning PB projects!
Check it out: betterbudgetalliance.org/wp-…
#bospoli
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4 Dec 2024
WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? We're calling on @mayorwu to #FreeThe5M for Boston's participatory budgeting process!
Though the City allocated $5M for resident-led projects, the mayor wants to release only $2M to fund them, leaving millions in taxpayer dollars locked away. #bospoli 🧵
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4 Dec 2024
We need transparency, accountability & a commitment from @BOSCityCouncil to pass a resolution. Bostonians should be trusted to decide how our money should be spent in our neighborhoods.
SIGN THE PETITION to free the full $5M for #ParticipatoryBudgeting: yjpu.org/pbpetition24
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