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.
Take a look
Swipe through or click on the dots to view the worksheets, then start using them to guide your own initiative.
Problem
Issue Definition
This worksheet helps you define the problematic issue (or issues) you are hoping to address.
Problem
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).
Team
Extended Team and Logics of Engagement
This worksheet helps you identify the broader coalition of people you will need to move the project along.
Team
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.
Environment
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
Public Value Account
The Public Value Account worksheet creates a ledger of all the anticipated positive and negative effects of a proposed intervention.
Public Value Proposition
What Ifs Sketch
This worksheet helps you brainstorm a few ideas that might create incremental public value.
Public Value Proposition
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.
Purpose
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.
Purpose
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
Capacity Assessment
This worksheet helps you identify the resources and expertise you need to turn your proposed intervention into reality.
Support
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.
Checklist
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.
Problem
Issue Definition
This worksheet helps you define the problematic issue (or issues) you are hoping to address.
Problem
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).
Environment
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.
Team
Extended Team and Logics of Engagement
This worksheet helps you identify the broader coalition of people you will need to move the project along.
Team
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.
Public Value Proposition
What Ifs Sketch
This worksheet helps you brainstorm a few ideas that might create incremental public value.
Public Value Proposition
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.
Purpose
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.
Purpose
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
Capacity Assessment
This worksheet helps you identify the resources and expertise you need to turn your proposed intervention into reality.
Support
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
Public Value Account
The Public Value Account worksheet creates a ledger of all the anticipated positive and negative effects of a proposed intervention.
Checklist
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.
A collaboration between George Veth and Mark Moore, the originator of Public Value Theory.