One of the biggests downfalls of scaling PB is having excellent facilitators in every space, but what if we could develop tools to empower ANYONE to be an excellent facilitaor? Meet the dinnertime democracy toolkit - a toolkit that connects to any phase of PB and makes it easy for folks to gather and talk democracy. The toolkit will feature simple prompting discussion questions, opportunities to work on refining ideas and instructions on how to submit or reecord an idea for submission. While no two PB processes are the same, the process for ideating and weighing choices around community needs are the same. I envision this tool focusing on those elements, but offering instructions and prompts to make conversation and open dialogue more approachable. 

Just as PB excels at bringing outreach to the streets (let's go to the people instead of asking them to come to us!), PBP staff, board and network members should be more proactively presenting at convenings hosted by other influential organizations that reach our key audiences (vs./in addition to getting people to come to our events).

Strategic opportunities always come up throughout the year, but we and our advisors/partners often pass on them if it's not in the budget.   

learn about PB at their own pace. This would help spread the practice and allow more people to be interested in bringing PB to their city.

Review what equity is and make sure that thier PB process is mapped to equity indicators. There are really great indicators that come out of Seattle. 

Here is the city of oakland's equity indicator report: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2018-Equity-Indicators-Full-Report.pdf

here is a powerpoint presentation from the city of Seattle: https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SeattlePlanningCommission/MinutesAndAgendas/CompPlanEquityIDPsandIndicatorsOPCDPresentation02252016.pdf

There is a really great one pager that the City of Oakland uses that I think could be a tool adapted for our use with instructions and measurement guidelines 

A training portal or series  -online, in person and/or via Skype, to train folks across the country to be able to start and lead PB discussions in their communities. This could include a series of trainings and webinars, and printed collateral for the new trainers to give to interested PB folks.

more easily distinguish "PBP" from "PB". And so the work could seem less wonky and easier to say.

BECAUSE IF ALL HUMAN, ANIMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ARE PRESERVED INDEFINITELY, THEN THERE WOULD BE NO MORE WARS, HATE CRIMES, BULLYING AND ALL OTHER CRIMES/ABUSE FOR FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!

PBP is beginning to focus on schools and wants to include more young people on its board and advisory board. This will allow the organization to be guided and shaped by some of the key folks that PBP is designed to empower. 

In order to set up a functional pipeline, I believe that we need support and resources for young people that are balancing this with other responsibilities. 

It would be great to work out what this could cover with the team.