---
id: "worksheets:exercise/articulate-theory-of-change"
type: "Solving Public Problems worksheet"
title: "Articulate Your Theory of Change"
url: "https://worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org/exercise/articulate-theory-of-change"
date: "2024-07-11"
summary: "Start at the right by writing down the long-term goals or practical results for which you are striving. Take care to set goals that are specific..."
source: "Solving Public Problems worksheets (worksheets.solvingpublicproblems.org), The GovLab and the Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Articulate Your Theory of Change

Exercise group: Powerful Partnerships · Optional exercise

## About this worksheet

Start at the right by writing down the long-term goals or practical results for which you are striving. Take care to set goals that are specific, achievable, and measurable. Then jump back to the first column and fill out the problem you are trying to solve.In between, write down the activities, filling in the steps you plan to take to get from the left column to the right.Underneath each activity, note your assumptions, or what must be true for it to succeed.

## Tips

Keep in mind that this theory of change worksheet is most effective for facilitating planning discussions with others. It is not intended to help you formulate the definition of your problem, your goals, or the methods you use to solve it.

## Worksheet fields

- Impact
- Initiatives, each with an action, an output and an outcome
- Assumptions

## Source

Solving Public Problems, Chapter 9, p. 286, adapted from Nesta

## PDF version

https://directus.theburnescenter.org/assets/6cb75655-67dc-4d5d-9ed9-9ace854d3c70

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