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A young woman sharing her opinion on how
to spend 1 million dollars
(Photo: Boston Centers for Youth & Families )
Will you give 1,000,000 dollars This initiative brought Boston a Guangzhou
to a bunch of teenagers and International Award for Urban Innovation,
let them decide how to spend or Guangzhou Award, in 2016, together with
it? Probably not. And the list Copenhagen (Denmark), La Paz (Bolivia),
of “why no” can go on and on. Qalyubeya (Egypt), and Songpa (South Korea).
However, the City of Boston The Guangzhou Award was set up to identify,
(United States) is doing this, seriously. The city document, and disseminate how cities and
values youth engagement and, more importantly, local governments are innovating to tackle
empowerment. Starting from 2014, Boston sustainability challenges in pollution, congestion,
allocates 1,000,000 dollars each year for Youth inequality, etc.
Lead the Change, a youth participatory budgeting
program. The city asks youth volunteers to collect “I feel very delighted to see the establishment
ideas proposed by their peers. Then the volunteers of the Guangzhou Award under the auspices of
– or Change Agents – will turn the ideas into United Cities and Local Governments and World
project proposals. After this, adolescents in the Association of the Major Metropolises. Through
city will vote and decide which projects get funded the platform of the Guangzhou Award, winning
and implemented. cities can diffuse and transmit their experience
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to spend 1 million dollars
(Photo: Boston Centers for Youth & Families )
Will you give 1,000,000 dollars This initiative brought Boston a Guangzhou
to a bunch of teenagers and International Award for Urban Innovation,
let them decide how to spend or Guangzhou Award, in 2016, together with
it? Probably not. And the list Copenhagen (Denmark), La Paz (Bolivia),
of “why no” can go on and on. Qalyubeya (Egypt), and Songpa (South Korea).
However, the City of Boston The Guangzhou Award was set up to identify,
(United States) is doing this, seriously. The city document, and disseminate how cities and
values youth engagement and, more importantly, local governments are innovating to tackle
empowerment. Starting from 2014, Boston sustainability challenges in pollution, congestion,
allocates 1,000,000 dollars each year for Youth inequality, etc.
Lead the Change, a youth participatory budgeting
program. The city asks youth volunteers to collect “I feel very delighted to see the establishment
ideas proposed by their peers. Then the volunteers of the Guangzhou Award under the auspices of
– or Change Agents – will turn the ideas into United Cities and Local Governments and World
project proposals. After this, adolescents in the Association of the Major Metropolises. Through
city will vote and decide which projects get funded the platform of the Guangzhou Award, winning
and implemented. cities can diffuse and transmit their experience
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