| Effect | Effect type | Effect direction | Level of analysis | Measurement quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nearly 1,200 voted, 923 in person | Behavior or practice change | Positive | Community | Verified |
| Over 200 voters aged 13 to 17 | Behavior or practice change | Positive | Community | Verified |
| 22.7% of eligible voters rarely vote locally | Behavior or practice change | Positive | Community | Verified |
| Delegates more comfortable with speaking, budgets, documents | Capacity built | Positive | Individual | Verified |
| Participants' definition of health widened | Mental model emerged | Positive | Individual | Testified |
| Eight projects funded, seven delivered by October 2025 | Material or project outcome | Positive | Community | Verified |
| Two accessible composting toilets at Merino Park | Material or project outcome | Positive | Community | Verified |
| 2,000 households got lead-removing water filters | Material or project outcome | Positive | Community | Claimed |
| 56 students certified in peer mental health support | Capacity built | Positive | Individual | Claimed |
| 97 youth played soccer, 75 bikes given, 50+ in life skills | Material or project outcome | Positive | Individual, Community | Claimed |
| Two community orchards planted | Material or project outcome | Positive | Community | Claimed |
| Over 2,200 residents took part in funded programs | Material or project outcome | Positive | Community | Claimed |
| Bus stops last to finish; press reports them built | Material or project outcome | Mixed or unintended | Community | Claimed |
| Program participants felt more connected, able to change things | Relationships and trust | Positive | Individual, Community | Verified |
| Committee members gained confidence, stayed involved | Capacity built | Positive | Individual | Testified |
| New ties among residents, nonprofits and agencies | Relationships and trust | Positive | Interpersonal, Community | Testified |
| Money went to small grassroots groups, not usual grantees | Behavior or practice change | Positive | Organizational, Community | Claimed |
| RIPTA and Parks staff plan earlier resident involvement | Behavior or practice change | Positive | Organizational | Testified |
| Medicaid insurers joined a community process | Relationships and trust | Positive | Organizational | Verified |
| First Medicaid-funded PB in the United States | Institutional or policy change | Positive | Societal | Claimed |
| Council President sees 'a road map' for city PB | Narrative or cultural shift | Positive | Societal | Testified |
| Elected officials showed up only to say thanks | Relationships and trust | Negative | Interpersonal, Societal | Testified |
| No public money secured for a next cycle | Institutional or policy change | Negative | Societal | Verified |
| Most filter recipients did not know PB paid for it | Narrative or cultural shift | Mixed or unintended | Community | Verified |
| Frustration with City pace; distrust of City persists | Relationships and trust | Negative | Interpersonal | Testified |
| Committee members lost track of the wider process | Relationships and trust | Negative | Interpersonal | Testified |
| Bikes bought at Walmart, not locally | Behavior or practice change | Mixed or unintended | Community | Testified |
| Participants want PB to continue, 4.55 of 5 | Narrative or cultural shift | Positive | Community | Claimed |
| Convener laid off the whole PB team, left HEZ partnership | Institutional or policy change | Negative | Organizational, Community | Verified |
| Residents' trust in the convener broken | Relationships and trust | Negative | Community, Interpersonal | Testified |
Headline numbers: over 300 ideas (347 per Ocean State Media), 20 on the ballot, nearly 1,200 voters by the convener's and state's count (923 in person, 264 online, more than 200 aged 13 to 17; Ocean State Media says more than 1,300), eight winners at $1,000,000, seven delivered by October 2025 and the bus stops promised by the end of 2025 and reported built by March 2026. Delivered: two ADA-accessible urine-diverting composting toilets at Merino Park plus stewards keeping Donigian and Davis Park bathrooms open 20 hours a week for two seasons; 2,000 households given a dispenser and three lead-certified filters with outreach at over 50 sites; 16 peer mental health sessions in Spanish and English with 56 students completing; 10 life skills sessions for over 50 youth; two community orchards in Olneyville and Smith Hill; 97 young people in soccer (goal 25); 75 bikes and repair kits (goal 50); over 2,200 program participants in total per the case study's web page. Measurement is honest but uneven: turnout and demographics come from the state's surveys; project counts from implementer reports; participant satisfaction from implementer surveys (100 filter recipients, 57 soccer families, 65 bike families); the relational and institutional effects from 25 interviews that the case study itself says are prone to self-report and selection bias. Two findings cut against the story: the state evaluation found no significant skill gains among Steering Committee members, only delegates; and 63 percent of filter recipients did not know PB had paid for their filter (61 percent of soccer families did know). The case study's central verdict is that implementation stayed community-led because a flexible nonprofit coordinator ran it, and that the same coordinator was stretched, under-communicated, and could have handed more to residents. The press adds the ending: Ocean State Media reports that the day after the Council President said the fund gave her a road map for city PB, ONE|NB laid off the director and six colleagues, and that the organization then left its RIDOH partnership and returned grants; the Providence Post reports the whole five-person HEZ team gone, four board members resigned, the Executive Committee and Resident Advisory Council never consulted, and a Steering Committee member saying 'the trust is gone'. Turnout of nearly 1,200 is out of more than 84,000 residents.
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