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Hi members,
We will have a shorter member update this month, just to highlight some big opportunities for all our community! In this October member update, learn more about PP Decides, register for the November voting parties, check out some updates from our community and check out the new members who have just joined the PP community!
PP Decides 26 updates
PP Decides 26 is up and running! We already have 27 proposals on the platform. Now, we are at the proposal development stage, in which the focus is on improving and/or combining the existing ideas - and if you see a topic that is missing, you can also add it to the platform!
If this will be your first time logging in to Common, check out this video to see how to participate!
Member Zoom meetings: proposal development and voting party for PP Decides 26
Our monthly member workshops in October are dedicated to working on the PP Decides proposals! We had a fruitful conversation yesterday, and you can join the second Zoom session to collaborate with fellow members in shaping your ideas for our 2026 budget, and use this time to expand your network!
📅 Date: October 15, 2025
⏰ Time: 8 am – 9 am ET / 12 pm – 1 pm UTC
📍 Location: Zoom
And get ready for our voting parties in November! You will be able to campaign for proposals, discuss with the community and cast your vote! As well as celebrate the process with all of us. Click to register in one of the sessions:
Please note that AI notetakers will not be allowed into the session. Notes and key takeaways will be shared after the workshop.
Call for applications: CDA, DIA, Rising Stars
We are launching the call for applications for two accelerator programs and the mentorship program! Members have priority when applying for these opportunities, so make sure to check which one interests you the most!
Participants in the Climate Democracy Accelerator (CDA) receive up to $25,000 in funding to implement their action plan. All CDA participants receive a $10,000 grant, expert mentorship, training, and a supportive peer network. The top five action plans in each cohort will receive an additional $15,000 award.
Democratic Innovations Accelerator (DIA) offers expert mentorship, training, and a supportive peer network to strengthen youth participation programs.
Rising Stars Mentorship provides personalized guidance to refine and implement participatory programs.
Community Updates
People Powered is seeking a Climate Democracy Program Coordinator! If you know anyone who would be interested in this position, share the call with them. The deadline to apply is November 1.
Invitation to Tender: Learning and Evaluation of the Global Citizens' Assembly for COP30.
Democracy R&D: Will you be there? Our member Melissa Ross is inviting you to the session “Deliberation, A House of Cards? The Way Forward Between Money, Politics & Critics” on October 16, 09:30 am.
Democracy at Work Fund launches call for proposals from Asia, Africa and South America
Global Citizen Assembly are inviting Community Hosts from Guyana, Perú, El Salvador, Surinam, Venezuela, Brasil (Pará, Pernambuco, Ceará), and Colombia (La Guajira). Apply here.
October 20, 1 pm CET. Online debate “Global citizen deliberation for and with stateless people”. Register here.
October 28, 5:15 pm CET. Online conversation (or in person in Berlin!) around possibilities and tensions of direct citizen engagement in global climate governance, with Nicole Curato, Bernardo Jurema, Andreas Bummel, and Azucena Morán, and chaired by Melisa Ross. Register here.
Welcome to our newest members!
We are excited to introduce six new organizational members and three new individual members this month! Here’s some information about them:
Just a reminder that you can access the Member Directory Airtable via this link. Use the password PPmembers24 to log in!
New organization members:
Leaders United for Progressive Advocacies of Davao-Soccsksargen (LUPAD) is a regional organization composed of youth-led, youth-serving, community-based, and school-based organizations in the DAVAO and SOCCSKSARGEN Regions (Philippines), and they have implemented numerous programs on participatory democracy. They were part of the Inclusive Democracy Accelerator (IDA). Our main contact there is Edgar Maverick C. Ayag II.
Association Beogo Neeré Sooré (ABNS) is an organization based in Burkina Faso, dedicated to the promotion of an inclusive and participatory democracy. They were also part of IDA! Our main contact is ZOUNGRANA Abdou.
SERAC-Bangladesh is a youth-foused, rights-based national organization committed to strengthening democratic practices through meaningful youth participation. Another IDA alumni! Our main contact there is SM Shaikat.
Dialogos, based in Guatemala, is a think tank dedicated to analysis, training, and innovation, promoting evidence-based solutions to regional public challenges, and during IDA they worked on a participatory process for indigenous communities. Reach out to Annelisse Escobar.
Girls to Women Organization is a women -youth led community based organization operating in Kakamega, Kenya. They have already been part of Rising Stars mentorship, and more recently of Climate Democracy Accelerator. Our main contact is Audrey Bigetih.
Fundeps is an organization based in Córdoba, Argentina, and they work with promoting public policies and the guarantee of citizen participation in decision-making processes. They were part of CDA! You can reach out to Ananda Lavayen.
New individual members:
Aina Nomena RATSARAHASINA, based in Madagascar, is a researcher on participatory democracy who has written a PhD dissertation on the topic.
Edwin Koga is the Founder/Director Amazon Theatrix Ensemble community organization for Awareness Creation and Advocacy to communities through Performing Arts and Media, and he is a IDA alumni.
Isabel Becerril Viera is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Advanced Social Studies (IESA), and her research focuses on democratic innovations and how they are influenced by ideology.
Join us in offering a warm welcome to our new members! We look forward to engaging and learning from them.
Hope to see you this month! 💙
We hope we can see many of you during our PP Decides meetings in October 🙂 It was so nice to see many of our members and staff together at the OGP Summit!
Have a good rest of your week!
The People Powered team