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What are the Worksheets?

These worksheets help you pick apart complex problems and focus on specific tasks, roadblocks, and goals. Completing them will help you fill out the Public Value Canvas, which puts together the smaller pieces to help you see the big picture and move forward from there. (You can fill the worksheets out multiple times to think through different possibilities and facilitate discussion.)

The Canvas in Action

A PUBLIC VALUE CASE STUDY

Each part of the Canvas has worksheets that will help you hone in on the purpose of that section. The following worksheets are filled out for the Hosting Mass Migration case study. If you haven’t read through the case, we highly suggest doing so in order to better understand how the worksheets supported the team in filling out their Canvas.

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Take a look

Swipe through or click on the dots to view the worksheets, then start using them to guide your own initiative.

Issue Definition
CANVAS SECTION:

Problem

WORKSHEET:

Issue Definition

This worksheet helps you define the problematic issue (or issues) you are hoping to address.

Selecting Your Problem
CANVAS SECTION:

Problem

WORKSHEET:

Selecting Your Problem

This worksheet helps you identify the multiple conditions contributing to one issue and then narrows your focus to the one you think you can and should address (based on your capacity and other factors).

Extended Team and Logics of Engagement
CANVAS SECTION:

Team

WORKSHEET:

Extended Team and Logics of Engagement

This worksheet helps you identify the broader coalition of people you will need to move the project along.

Orchestrating Team
CANVAS SECTION:

Team

WORKSHEET:

Orchestrating Team

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.

Understanding the Issue History
CANVAS SECTION:

Environment

WORKSHEET:

Understanding the Issue History

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.

Public Value Account
CANVAS SECTION:

Public Value Account

WORKSHEET:

Public Value Account

The Public Value Account worksheet creates a ledger of all the anticipated positive and negative effects of a proposed intervention.

What Ifs Sketch
CANVAS SECTION:

Public Value Proposition

WORKSHEET:

What Ifs Sketch

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

Public Value Proposition
CANVAS SECTION:

Public Value Proposition

WORKSHEET:

Public Value Proposition

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.

Pains & Gains
CANVAS SECTION:

Purpose

WORKSHEET:

Pains & Gains

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.

Dimensions of Value
CANVAS SECTION:

Purpose

WORKSHEET:

Dimensions of Value

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).

Capacity Assessment
CANVAS SECTION:

Capacity

WORKSHEET:

Capacity Assessment

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

Support Assessment
CANVAS SECTION:

Support

WORKSHEET:

Support Assessment

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

Canvas Checklist
CANVAS SECTION:

Checklist

WORKSHEET:

Canvas Checklist

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.

Issue Definition
CANVAS SECTION:

Problem

WORKSHEET:

Issue Definition

This worksheet helps you define the problematic issue (or issues) you are hoping to address.

Selecting Your Problem
CANVAS SECTION:

Problem

WORKSHEET:

Selecting Your Problem

This worksheet helps you identify the multiple conditions contributing to one issue and then narrows your focus to the one you think you can and should address (based on your capacity and other factors).

Understanding the Issue History
CANVAS SECTION:

Environment

WORKSHEET:

Understanding the Issue History

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.

Extended Team and Logics of Engagement
CANVAS SECTION:

Team

WORKSHEET:

Extended Team and Logics of Engagement

This worksheet helps you identify the broader coalition of people you will need to move the project along.

Orchestrating Team
CANVAS SECTION:

Team

WORKSHEET:

Orchestrating Team

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.

What Ifs Sketch
CANVAS SECTION:

Public Value Proposition

WORKSHEET:

What Ifs Sketch

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

Public Value Proposition
CANVAS SECTION:

Public Value Proposition

WORKSHEET:

Public Value Proposition

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.

Pains & Gains
CANVAS SECTION:

Purpose

WORKSHEET:

Pains & Gains

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.

Dimensions of Value
CANVAS SECTION:

Purpose

WORKSHEET:

Dimensions of Value

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).

Capacity Assessment
CANVAS SECTION:

Capacity

WORKSHEET:

Capacity Assessment

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

Support Assessment
CANVAS SECTION:

Support

WORKSHEET:

Support Assessment

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

Public Value Account
CANVAS SECTION:

Public Value Account

WORKSHEET:

Public Value Account

The Public Value Account worksheet creates a ledger of all the anticipated positive and negative effects of a proposed intervention.

Canvas Checklist
CANVAS SECTION:

Checklist

WORKSHEET:

Canvas Checklist

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.