Your voice matters: Take our survey on digital participation tools
/
Are you a user or developer of digital participation tools? Help inform our ratings!
Read More
Our comms director plans to apply what she’s learned at People Powered to her next chapter
/
Our communications director Pam Bailey shares how working at People Powered has changed her life as she transitions to focus on her own organization.
Read MoreOctober News: Climate action funding, training on digital participation, and more!
/
Learn more about the Climate Democracy Accelerator, our online training & PP Decides 2024, our yearly planning process with members.
Read MoreGet support for creating democratic solutions for climate challenges: Apply now
/
Learn how the Climate Democracy Accelerator can help you engage communities in deciding policies governing the changing climate.
Read MoreEnrollments open for the Digital Participation Online Training!
/
Enroll for our free and self-paced online training course that can help you expand public participation in your community using digital participation tools.
Read MoreApplications for the 3rd cohort of the Rising Stars Mentorship are now open!
/
Do you need help to launch or improve a participatory program? Apply for expert mentoring support!
Read MoreSeptember news: We launch 2 new participation resources
/
We share a groundbreaking new interactive tool, a digital participation training, and global priorities for mainstreaming citizen participation in government.
Read MoreThe Participation Playbook is now LIVE!
/
The Participation Playbook is an interactive online tool to help you successfully advocate for and implement participatory programs for your government or community.
Read MoreParticipation Playbook developers offer advice for most effective use
/
Expert practitioners were tapped to develop the Participation Playbook, and they reveal the challenges and the insights they gained in this Q&A.
Read MoreFrom one-off engagement to system change: How do we mainstream citizen participation in government?
/
The 17 Rooms initiative convened global experts to prioritize the top ways to institutionalize participatory and deliberative democracy. Here are the results.
Read MoreParticipation Playbook launch: Introducing a new tool for planning participatory programs
/
The Participation Playbook is an interactive online guide that helps you identify participation solutions for your local context, navigate the planning process, and develop a personalized roadmap — a playbook tailored to you!
Read MoreParticipatory policymaking offers ‘disruptive’ response to climate change
/
Refugees and internally displaced people are often most impacted by disasters and other effects of climate change. But they are often left out of the creation of solutions. This project in Zimbabwe is changing that.
Read MoreJuly news: 🎉Our first video, funding & mentorship deadlines
/
We share a special video for our 3rd birthday, new opportunities for support, and updates from Brazil and Zimbabwe.
Read MorePeople Powered welcomes two fellows from Kazakhstan and Brazil
/
Say hello to our new fellows, Aidana Zhumabekova and Ana Clara Giovani, and learn about their exciting contributions to People Powered.
Read MoreDigital democracy: How do we assure that the online 'revolution' is mostly promise, not peril?
/
Can we convert the online “revolution” so it delivers its promise rather than its peril? That is the goal of the People Powered Digital Democracy Accelerator.
Read MoreWhen people are mad at government, try legislative theater
/
When “regular talk” isn’t getting you anywhere in your efforts to include input from impacted people in government policies, try legislative theater! It’s a form of improv drama that engages everyone in identifying solutions. This is a case study featuring youth engagement in climate action in Zimbabwe.
Read MoreVacancy: Project Assistant – Participatory & Deliberative Democracy (Coglobal)
/
Apply for this exciting position by July 10 with our partner organization Coglobal and have a chance to support People Powered programs in Europe!
Read MoreRebuilding trust in democracy, and in each other
/
Legislative theater is being used in Colombia to help rebuild trust in a community challenged by climate change.
Read MoreBrazil launches participatory national planning process
/
Brazil’s new president takes first step toward promised national participatory budgeting.
Read MoreJune news: First member convening and three new programs
/
We share highlights of our member meeting in Mexico, three new programs, three new staff members, and insights into fake news and citizens’ assemblies.
Read More