Public Allies Objectives and Outcomes Worksheet

Use this worksheet to design objectives statements and outcomes statements for your Ally’s position description. For your objective statements, create a statement for each main body of work your Ally will be responsible for carrying out. You should create as many as called for in order to cover the scope of work of your Ally’s position description. For your outcome statements, you should create at least one, and any additional statements that will enable the outcomes of your Ally’s work to be measured. Answer the questions below, and the results will be transferred to (1) a full position description document, and (2) Public Allies electronic Personal Impact Service Documentation (PISD) system found at

I) Create an Objective statement

The objectivestatementis a sentence or two that outlines the specifics of the activity that the Ally will be working on.

Identify / Example / *Combined Objective Statement
1. Who will the Ally be serving?
2. What specific activity will the Ally be doing?
3. When will the Ally be doing the activity?
4. Where will the Ally be doing the activity? / 1.
2.
3.
4.

ii) Create an outcome

The outcome statement describes the changes we want to see as a result of the Ally’s objectives. It identifies (1) a target group, (2) states an action verb and (3) articulates a resulting change in the target group.

Identify / Example / *Combined Outcome
1. Who is the target group?
2. What is the action verb?
(i.e. “develop,” “achieve,” “increase,” “improve,” “maintain,” etc.)
3. What is the result?
(i.e. “ability to,” “skills to,” “level of,” “condition of,” etc.) / 1.
2.
3.

iii) Create Standard, Measure and Timeframe

A measure is a tool you’ll use to find out whether or not the change you want to see is actually occurring. A standard is the rate or amount of change you would like to see consider the work successful.

Identify / Example / *Standard, Measure, Timeframe
1. How much of a change will take place for the target group? (OR) What percentage of the target group will experience the change?
2. How will the change be measured? What tool will be used?
3. When will the tool be implemented? / 1.
2.
3. / .

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Use this worksheet to design objectives statements and outcomes statements for your Ally’s position description. For your objective statements, create a statement for each main body of work your Ally will be responsible for carrying out. You should create as many as called for in order to cover the scope of work of your Ally’s position description. For your outcome statements, you should create at least one, and any additional statements that will enable the outcomes of your Ally’s work to be measured. Answer the questions below, and the results will be transferred to (1) a full position description document, and (2) Public Allies electronic Personal Impact Service Documentation (PISD) system found at

I) Create an Objective statement

The objectivestatementis a sentence or two that outlines the specifics of the activity that the Ally will be working on.

Identify / Example / *Combined Objective Statement
1. Who will the Ally be serving?
2. What specific activity will the Ally be doing?
3. When will the Ally be doing the activity?
4. Where will the Ally be doing the activity? / 1. 5 classes of 6-8 year old children from North Clarkville
2. Teaching the Healthy Kids Coalition “Safety First” curriculum
3. Monday through Thursday, from 8:30am to 11:30 am, starting in October and ending in June
4. In elementary school classrooms, and at 6 community centers in North Clarkville / The Ally will work with 5 classes of 6-8 year olds, Monday through Thursday, teaching the “Safety First” curriculum in each of our classrooms and at various community centers in North Clarkville.

ii) Create an outcome

The outcome statement describes the changes we want to see as a result of the Ally’s objectives. It identifies (1) a target group, (2) states an action verb and (3) articulates a resulting change in the target group.

Identify / Example / *Combined Outcome
1. Who is the target group?
2. What is the action verb?
(i.e. “develop,” “achieve,” “increase,” “improve,” “maintain,” etc.)
3. What is the result?
(i.e. “ability to,” “skills to,” “level of,” “condition of,” etc.) / 1. 6-8 year old children
2. will understand
3. the difference between a safe and unsafe home / 6-8 year old children will understand the difference between a safe and unsafe home.

iii) Create Standard, Measure and Timeframe

A measure is a tool you’ll use to find out whether or not the change you want to see is actually occurring. A standard is the rate or amount of change you would like to see consider the work successful.

Identify / Example / *Standard, Measure, Timeframe
1. How much of a change will take place for the target group? (OR) What percentage of the target group will experience the change?
2. How will the change be measured? What tool will be used?
3. When will the tool be implemented? / 1. 80% of 6-8 year old children
2. The change will be measured by a parent interview
3. In January and May / 80% will understand the difference between a safe and unsafe home as measured by parent interviews in January and May.