Network Leadership Resources
Our Resource Library contains dozens of articles, infographics, and webinars related to building, managing, and evaluating cross-sector community networks. Start by searching for a topic of interest or read our Intro Guide below.
Network Leadership is the practice of building, managing, and evaluating cross-sector community partnership with a network approach. While traditional leadership emphasizes hierarchal styles of leadership, network leaders must manage a dynamic environment without formal roles, hierarchies, or authority. There are a lot of common examples
Contributions of Health Care Coalitions to Preparedness and Resilience: Perspectives From Hospital Preparedness Program and Health Care Preparedness Coalitions
Objective: The purpose of this article was to describe how the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) and other health care coalitions conceptualize and measure progress or success and to identify strategies to improve coalition success and address known barriers to success. Methods: We conducted a structured
How to Nurture a Culture of Exchange
Almost a decade ago, Dutch blogger Joitske Hulsebosch used a phrase in her blog that has stuck with me. The phrase has proved to be quite useful, and as relevant to networks today as back then. She wrote that the bigger challenge in a network
Network Structures: Who, What, Why?
Understanding a few network structure metrics can really tell you a lot about the underlying relationships! Centrality, Connectivity, Bridging, and Cliques are four fundamental network science concepts – visit our Network Science 101 page for even more infographics, videos and articles on the subject! Build,
Evaluating Collaboration From the Ground Up: August 2019 Webinar
Evaluating Collaboration: A Webinar Starting an evaluation of a coalition, network or other inter-organizational partnership isn’t easy. Leah Perkinson of Evergreen Consulting joined us for an hour-long discussion on evaluating collaboration the right way to make the most of your analysis. She’s joined by VNL
Evaluating The Growth & Impact of Community Partnerships
The Mile High Health Alliance used the PARTNER CPRM to demonstrate the impact of their relationship-building efforts in the Denver area to funders and community stakeholders. Learn more > Case Study Executive Summary The Mile High Health Alliance works to coordinate health and human services
Visualizing A Network of Partnerships & Demonstrating Shared Impact
Learn more > Case Study Executive Summary The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center needed a way to demonstrate their collaboration to donors, and identify how their partners were working together to serve patients. They created a PARTNER Evaluation project with our assistance to measure what matters
Measuring the Intensity of Collaboration In a Network
Collaboration is a broad term encompassing many kinds of connection, interaction, and partnership. While there are many different ways to measure this intensity, we use a four-level scale to avoid complicating things and make the survey easy for network members to answer. This ensures we
Patterns in PARTNERing across Public Health Collaboratives
Abstract: Inter-organizational networks represent one of the most promising practice-based approaches in public health as a way to attain resources, share knowledge, and, in turn, improve population health outcomes. However, the interdependencies and effectiveness related to the structure, management, and costs of these networks represents
Network analysis of RE-AIM framework: chronology of the field and the connectivity of its contributors
The reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance (RE-AIM) framework has been widely used for translational research. We used social network analysis (SNA) to explore how innovative research frameworks, such as RE-AIM, have diffused over time in academic literature. A structured literature review was conducted on
Analysis of Network Characteristics and Quality of Interactions Among Public Health Collaboratives
While the benefits of collaboration have become widely accepted and the practice of collaboration is growing within the public health system, a paucity of research exists that examines factors and mechanisms related to effective collaboration between public health and their partner organizations. The purpose of
A Systemic Review of Collaboration and Network Research in the Public Affairs Literature
In public health departments across America, teams are building partnerships and networks in their communities to help address the social determinants of health and other upstream community health factors. However, there’s very little in the literature that provides a data-based perspective on network best practices
Theory of Collaborative Policy Networks: Identifying Structural Tendencies
Support for the “democratization of the policy sciences” has led to the development of a number of frameworks and theories to enhance the normative, multidisciplinary approach to policy analysis. However, this approach has been challenged for failing to produce the objective empirical and normative standards
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