Community Voting & Participatory Budgeting

We’re building participatory democracy tools to support digital referendums and participatory budgeting. Citizens will be able to propose ideas, discuss tradeoffs, vote on priorities, and help direct budget allocations toward what they care about most.

Our approach follows best practices from participatory budgeting: transparent proposals, inclusive voting, clear timelines, and published results. Neighborhood residents can track the full lifecycle—from idea submission to funded projects—so trust and accountability stay front and center.

We've presented CivicSpark to community members and government staff for feedback, and are currently updating this feature based on their comments at our community session at Gradient.

We will add this tool to this website, pending the approval of the Tulsa Neighborhood Academy staff.