Idea Collection for the twelfth cycle of Participatory Budgeting in Cambridge began in September 2025, and ended on October 12, 2025. During the idea collection stage, over 1,100 ideas were submitted by community members via community events, classroom and neighborhood idea collection workshops, email, mail, over the phone, and the online idea collection map! To reac all of the ideas that were submitted in the twelfth cycle, view the map below:
To be eligible for PB funding, projects must:
- Benefit the public.
- Be either a capital project on city-owned property OR an operating project with a fixed duration of up to three years
- Consistent with existing City policies
- Implemented with the City of Cambridge
- Implemented after July 1, 2026 (the start of the next fiscal year)
If you have any questions about the PB process in Cambridge, please email pb@cambridgema.gov.
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