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Credited to the Sign

Testing Whether a Street Pantry's Take-Only-What-You-Need Note Changes Anything Its Next Restock Doesn't

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities tracks take-up at 14 street pantries in the week before and after a hand-lettered "take only what you need" note appears, finding the flagged category's take-rate falls sharply where a restock lands the same week and barely moves where it doesn't.

AuthorsIben Chikere, Anouk Mensah
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.cn001w
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_cn001w,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Credited to the Sign: Testing Whether a Street Pantry's Take-Only-What-You-Need Note Changes Anything Its Next Restock Doesn't},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cn001w},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-typology-of-cn001w/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}