ABOUT PB CLE

People’s Budget Cleveland, or PB CLE, is a grassroots group working to enable Cleveland residents to have real power to make real decisions about public money gets spent in their neighborhoods.

We’re residents, organizers, educators, and grassroots leaders. In 2023 we put the People’s Budget charter amendment on the ballot. 33,000 Clevelanders voted to bring a People’ Budget to Cleveland—not enough to pass the amendment, but enough to show us Clevelanders are ready to demand ‘nothing about us without us.’

In 2025 PB CLE is working to bring a six-month PB pilot to a Cleveland neighborhood. We’re still in this work because a People’s Budget takes democracy beyond elections. This work is even more important now, at a time of rising authoritarianism, because a People's Budget harnesses the collective wisdom of Cleveland residents and builds neighborhood power.