"VNL and their PARTNER network data have been critical components to support County Health Rankings & Roadmaps in analyzing existing networks around the country. VNL provided important training on network science concepts, network mapping and analysis, and SDoH resource allocation within networks. We were able to align health rankings data with VNL’s analysis of inter-organizational relationships and partnerships to identify gaps for targeted outreach."

"We have worked with VNL over the past five years, and utilized PARTNER to assess the collaborative function of community-based quality improvement learning teams. PARTNER allowed us to assess how we work together for health improvement planning and identify how we can target our efforts to optimize capacity development. It is a pleasure to work with Dr. Varda and her team."

"Using the PARTNER CPRM fundamentally transformed our work. It gave us insight into how well we were doing as a network and informed our strategic approach to development, continuous improvement, and outcomes. It was one of the most important tools we used during our collaborative efforts to improve early childhood outcomes."

"The team at VNL does an extraordinary job visually demonstrating the collective impact of CBOs and philanthropy working together to achieve quality of life improvements in communities. PARTNER's core principles of trust and value humanize and demystify why some cross-sector relationships are strong while others may need some attention. The analysis provides a road map, not only to strengthen community partnership but to maximize their effectiveness.”

“Our team used PARTNER to assess a partnership that sustains and evolves a community garden located at an urban medical center. The community garden is in a process of rapid developmental growth, so assessing the collaboration that supports the garden was essential to help guide future directions. The PARTNER Tool allowed our team to easily survey, analyze, and communicate the findings of our collaborative assessment. We discovered our strengths and identified key areas for improvement. We found relatively high levels of collaboration among our community partners, and were also able to identify where ties could be strengthened to benefit not only the program but the surrounding community as well."

“Working with Dr. Danielle Varda and using the PARTNER CPRM transformed the work our collaborative (a Partnership for Health Initiative funded by The Colorado Trust) was doing. We moved from having an anecdotal understanding of the system of care for babies and young children with special health care and developmental needs to being able to empirically characterize the system, quantify relationships among stakeholders and participants in the system, and evaluate systems change as a result of our colloborative efforts."

"Our organization used the PARTNER tool in two ways: first, to assess the level of confidence and trust community partners had for the health department, and second, to assist us in developing our strategic plan. Assessing the quality of our partnerships with other agencies and our performance level were essential in order to move forward with our vision of a developing a healthier community. Learning what our partners thought we did well in addition to what needed improvement and expansion is invaluable to our strategic planning process."