3D Project Canvas for strategic planning and impact evaluation

A template for getting clear with your group or project team about

1. 👉 orientation: how your project(s) can contribute to deep, wide-spread, and lasting impact
2. 🎯 objectives: what you intend to achieve in each of these three impact dimensions
3. 🚩 theory of change: how your activities will lead to those intended results
4. 🔍 evaluate: how you can measure, reflect and report on your impact

This tool is based on the SCALE 3D model, developed by Tim Strasser in his PhD on transformative capacity of social innovation. Learn more here: https://bitly.com/SCALE3D-intro

You can

• 📄 download a fillable PDF verison below, or
• 🌐 a collaborative google doc version here https://bit.ly/3D_project_canvas

It was used by a variety of Transition groups who received small grants from the seed funding program and the Ctrl Shift prototypes by the Transition Together project in the UK.

Groups who have used it found it to be a really helpful and intuitive way of reflecting on what they want to achieve, to be more intentional and strategic, and to report on their impacts in a way that works for them.

💬 Here some quotes from groups who’ve used it:

“The 3D impact model is a really refreshing way to evaluate how we’re doing.” – Transition Reading

“The widening, deepening, lengthening approach has made us really think. Reflecting back on the past year has been invaluable for the team – at the time we’re always focused on delivering an activity and trying to plan the next one, but stopping to see what we’ve delivered over a year has been encouraging and thought-provoking.” – Sustainable Clevedon