A compilation of articles from the University of Minnesota Center for Integrative Leadership’s conference on Creating Public Value has been published on a new book, Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World. The collection, edited by John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, and Laura Bloomberg, includes examples of public value creation by nonprofit organizations, local governments, businesses, and cross-sectoral collaboratives. One chapter, by Laura Kalambokidis, Lisa Hinz, and Scott Chazdon focuses on Extension’s approach to creating public value. In “Using Economic Principles to Show How Extension Programs Create Public Value,” we present a case study of identifying and measuring the public value generated by a University of Minnesota Extension community leadership development program.
