Social value mapping tool for the VCSE sector
Infrastructure Development
A multi-dimensional value typology that helps voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations see, name and prove the full value of their work.
What it is
The Valuing Community Mapper builds on a tradition of value mapping tools in sustainability and business model research (notably Bocken et al., 2013), whilst addressing a distinct gap: the systematic invisibility of VCSE contributions within policy and funding frameworks. Unlike tools designed for corporate business model redesign, the Valuing Community Mapper applies a multi-dimensional typology developed inductively from VCSE sector practice, centred on community-defined value rather than market value capture.
Dr Amy Burnett, a Fellow hosted by the British Academy Policy Innovation Fellowship in the Civil Society and Youth team at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), developed the underlying VCSE value typology to understand how different value measures are (or not) being understood and measured. This Value Mapper animates the research for real-world application.
Who it's for
UK voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations of any size — from a volunteer-run community garden to a multi-site development trust. If you create value for your community, this tool helps you see it, name it, and prove it.
In their words
Catherine developed my VCSE Value Mapper as part of a British Academy Policy Innovation Fellowship on the value of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. I knew what I wanted to achieve but didn't have the technical ability to do so. I had the pleasure of working with Catherine on previous projects and knew she could make my research come alive in ways that understood the regenerative and multi-level analysis that I knew I needed. She animated my research and made my vision of years of research and reflection come into being.
Catherine is a rare and powerful person who can rapidly understand your vision and see beyond it. She takes, with razor sharp precision and technical prowess, your seed of an idea and turns it into something intelligent, visually attractive and technically beyond your wildest dreams.
She gets the blue sky while being grounded in the universal and natural laws we need to understand and live by to be authentically sustainable. She cares deeply about community while being able to work at a system level — navigating both the meta and the micro with a dancer-like agility that only Catherine has.
I cannot recommend her highly enough. She does what she sets out to do, with bells and whistles you weren't expecting.
Dr Amy Burnett
British Academy Policy Innovation Fellow
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