Better Budget Alliance Boston

The Better Budget Alliance is a people-powered coalition in Boston, MA to make Boston's budget more transparent, accountable and democratic.

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

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: https://t.co/Eifugj8ph2

[Ed Flynn 愛德華費連 @EdforBoston]

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

[Brian Worrell @VoteWorrell]

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

[Nik DeCosta-Klipa @NikDeCostaKlipa]

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.)

[Center for Economic Democracy @Center4EconDem]

🌟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: https://t.co/aHgTm08xN9 🚀

#NonprofitJobs #SolidarityEconomy #SocialJustice

[Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative @fairmountcollab]

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 https://t.co/eimZWbtt2X

[City of Cambridge @CambMA]

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: https://t.co/DGp1EBi7yE

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

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: https://t.co/qVcJN5rbI2

Then GO VOTE Y'ALL @ https://t.co/TpKCVhbfMM!

[Fairmount Indigo CDC Collaborative @fairmountcollab]

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.

[City Life / Vida Urbana (citylifevidaurbana.bsky) @CityLife_Clvu]

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: https://t.co/BP2twAUMd4
#BosPoli

[Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network @BeyondBondBos]

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)

[PlacenPeezy @afbplace]

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

[Center for Economic Democracy @Center4EconDem]

⏰ 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: https://t.co/q5IG8CvMke

[Benjamin Weber @ben4district6]

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! https://t.co/qTopAV8ztm

[Teen Empowerment @TeenEmpowerment]

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 https://t.co/rWBZWo9qe5, get to know project ideas, and vote for up to 5 of them.

[Saraya (suh-RAY-uh) Wintersmith @SWINTERSMITH]

One year after reforming police details, Boston inching toward hiring civilian flaggers https://t.co/gxeVoJtZ0Z

[GBH News @GBHNews]

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: https://t.co/CIu9EvfqIK

[@tianarochon.bsky.social @tianarochon]

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:

https://t.co/DcPC9y9QJc

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

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: https://t.co/CiUW17WPII

#bospoli

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

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.

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

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: https://t.co/gxoD4ovaP3

[Better Budget Alliance Boston @BBA_Boston]

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 🧵