Public Budgets 101: How To Influence Government Spending

For 18 years, the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group has helped Chicago's grassroots community organizations understand where and how their public dollars are spent.

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August 3, 2006, 10:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"If you want to know what your local government cares about â€" follow the money trail. That is what the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group (NCBG) has been doing since 1988 â€" helping residents of low-income Chicago neighborhoods understand the power and the importance of influencing government's bottom line. NCBG's goal has been to open up the budgeting process to a substantive public debate on the most important and effective expenditures to improve our neighborhoods, transparency and disclosure about where public revenues are coming from and how theyâ€™re being spent, and more equitable distribution of the public wealth to communities."

Thanks to David Holtzman

FULL STORY: Following the Money Trail

Wednesday, August 2, 2006 in Shelterforce Magazine

Community / Economic Development United States

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