Cole Has a Soul (CHAS) was one of the first participatory budgeting (PB) processes in Denver, CO, occurring simultaneously with a process on the Auraria campus. CHAS launched in May 2018 and then went dormant for 3 months before restarting in August of that year and then concluding in December. In PB processes, residents directly decide how to spend a portion of a public budget through public deliberation, and CHAS participants collectively identified community needs, proposed potential solutions to those needs, and then voted for projects that allocated $30,000 to Denver’s Cole neighborhood.