Seattle People's Fellowship

We have good news to share!

• The steering committee will finish Designing the Process on June 12th!
• This means Idea Collection will officially start June 19th and end July 24th, with pre-idea collection available at events attended by The People's Fellows. This is when we need community members to show up most!
• Proposal Development will be July 17th through September 15th
• Then, we will be asking community members to return and Vote on Developed Proposals October 1st through October 14th

After that, the winning proposals will be funded by the $27M.

As we soon enter the Idea Collection phase, we hope y...
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Hello everyone, it has been a month since we [Youth Fellows] held two Virtual Youth Summits on March 4th and 10th! For those who don’t know, our facilitator team includes Saniya, Nimo, Nina, Tasin, and Kalie. We were able to connect with a handful of BIPOC community members and inform them about the upcoming Participatory Budgeting Process. We asked participants what they felt was important about youth leadership, provided some of our own examples of great youth leaders, processed as a community the feelings experience(d) while in the education system, and expressed our desires for the future ...
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We're one of the multiple teams here to help kick off the Participatory Budgeting process by engaging the youth.

Using this platform is the first step to our big goal of helping generations of youth voters and impacting the Seattle community. Join us as we embark on this new journey.

Make sure to be active by checking for updates periodically, you will hear from more of us soon!