According to the Participatory Budgeting Project, a nonprofit aimed to introduce participatory budgeting into more communities; participatory budgeting (PB) is “a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.” In other words, PB enables those who live in the community to identify the issues that matter the most to them and work in tandem with the government to make lasting decisions on how their tax dollars will be spent to make valuable improvements.