The goal of the Nine Neighborhood Fund is to let residents of Central Providence decide directly how $1 million is spent on projects that improve health and well-being for low-income communities of color, so that civic engagement grows among people who face barriers to participation, participants gain skills and a sense of shared responsibility, and elected officials and public agencies adopt participatory budgeting to allocate public funds equitably.
The state report lists seven goals codified by RIDOH, EOHHS, evaluators, PB experts and the Steering Committee: raise civic engagement among residents facing barriers; change participants' skills and attitudes; fund projects that directly reach low-income communities of color; address social determinants of health; widen the community's definition of health; engage healthcare organizations with the Health Equity Zone; and get PB adopted by elected officials and government. These span all four goal types. Cultural-level is chosen because the launch release frames the fund as an effort to shift power over spending to residents, and because the convener's former director told Ocean State Media it was always envisioned as a one-off pilot meant to create the interest, capacity and infrastructure for PB to be adopted at city or state level. Multi-cycle reflects that ambition; only one cycle ran, and the seventh goal was not reached.
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