Canvas Section:
Worksheets

Checklist

Canvas Checklist

Worksheet 13

Since the various elements of the public value canvas may have been developed piecemeal by different team members at different times, this worksheet will help you double-check that they are complete, coherent, and creditable.

Support

Support Assessment

Worksheet 12

This worksheet helps you identify the sources of money, authorization, and public spirit needed from individuals, organizations, and institutions for your plan to succeed.

Capacity

Capacity Assessment

Worksheet 11

This worksheet helps you identify the resources and expertise you need to turn your proposed intervention into reality.

Purpose

Dimensions of Value

Worksheet 10

This worksheet helps you reckon with the real value of your efforts by detailing the benefits as well as the costs of your proposed intervention (which can be monetary or less tangible).

Purpose

Pains & Gains

Worksheet 09

This worksheet helps you examine your ideal situation – the future you hope to create with your actions – from the perspective of the group(s) of people impacted by the current situation.

Public Value Proposition

Public Value Proposition

Worksheet 08

​​This worksheet helps you build a single sentence articulating how you hope to create public value, and what that public value will be: it is both the elevator pitch summarizing the project, and a hypothesis for change, to be tested and refined as you proceed.

Public Value Proposition

What Ifs Sketch

Worksheet 07

This worksheet helps you brainstorm a few ideas that might create incremental public value.

Environment

Understanding the Issue History

Worksheet 05

It is vital to take stock of current and previous attempts to deal with the issue to make sure you do not try what hasn’t worked or duplicate work someone else already began.

Team

Orchestrating Team

Worksheet 04

The Orchestrating Team serves as a working group that stays at the center of the project over time, helping to coordinate or mobilize others, even as individual members come and go.