PARTNER Platform - Visible Network Labs

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The PARTNER Platform is a robust network analysis platform that uses network science to help visualize your partnerships, demonstrate collective impact, track and adapt your strategy to do more, together.

The PARTNER Platform uses data to change the way we build networks.

Networks are the new normal, but they can feel complicated and in-efficient, making it hard to tell if a network approach is actually helping.

The PARTNER Platform is a CPRM (Community Partner Relationship Manager) that uses network science and analysis to help you map and track your collaboration over time. This makes it easy to find efficiencies, evolve your network strategy and improve the outcomes of your work.

Program to Analyze, Record, & Track Networks to Enhance Relationships

Whole Network Tracking

PARTNER is a CPRM (Community Partner Relationship Manager) designed to track not just how an organization interacts with its own partners, but how all of them interact with each other.

Scientifically Validated Metrics

A network map is only as good as the data that goes into it. PARTNER is built around our validated metrics, developed through decades of network science research and professional practice.

Mapping & Data Visualization

PARTNER’s robust network analyzer was built with a network science lens to help you quickly explore and leverage network connections. Use GIS Mapping for additional place-based insights.

Relation Quality Analytics

Measure the quality of partnerships and relationships within your network using our trust and value scores to identify connections that can be strengthened and improved.

ROI Tracking & Improvement

PARTNER provides numerous ways to measure your process outcomes and demonstrate collective impact. Track the return on investment from your partnerships to drive impact.

Greater Collective Impact

A shared tracking platform provides partners transparency to reflect on and improve their collaborative processes. This is scientifically proven to lead to better group outcomes.

Who Uses the PARTNER CPRM?

Public Health Departments

Leverage your network of partners more effectively to improve community health and well-being. Learn how we can help you visualize your network and improve your strategy accordingly.

Foundations & Funders

Fund more effective collaboratives and work with your network of grantees more effectively. Learn how we can help you foster stronger connections to increase the impact of your programs.

Government Agencies

Build more effective and efficient partnerships within and beyond your agency. Learn how social network analysis can help you demonstrate impact and drive your programs forward.

Networks & Coalitions

Demonstrate your impact to stakeholders and find new ways to collaborate effectively. Learn how we can help you measure what’s working, and find where you can improve.

Integrate Individual-Level Network Analysis with PARTNERme.

While the PARTNER CPRM allows systems-level tracking of your organizational partnerships, PARTNERme allows you to integrate individual-level network tracking to create even more insight. Screen patients, students, program participants and others to draw a line between your system-level efforts and individual level network outcomes. Learn more about this innovative new PARTNER Tool below.

Integrated. Validated. Easy to use.

Lots of features to improve your strategy & impact

How does the PARTNER Platform work in practice?

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Hear what our clients & partners are saying

VNL is an amazing team of professionals who are actively building tools, like PARTNER, that we need to measure collaboration, networks, and more. They think outside of the box, and they are an innovative partner when it comes to trying to define and measure those things that are innately challenging.

Katie Edwards

Executive Director, The Nonprofit Centers Networkl

“There’s very little data about what it takes to create effective cross-sector collaboration. What VNL does with network science and data provides real insight into what empowers multi-sector collaboration and networks to advance health in communities around the country and world.”

Kate Kingery

Deputy Director, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

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.

Justin Rivas

Network Strategist, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

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.

Lea Ayers LaFave, PhD, RN

Consultant, JSI Research & Training Institute

Adding Method to the Madness

Every aspect of our PARTNER Platform technology is built around our innovative PARTNER Method. Firmly rooted in network science and developed through decades of professional practice, The PARTNER Method brings a strategic, data-centered approach to measuring and tracking networks over time.

Recent PARTNER Platform news & updates

Bounding Your Network Brief

Briefs, Support

Bounding Your Network Brief

Many of our users report that deciding who to include in their network survey is the most difficult step in the entire process. The list you send your survey to dictates the partner options respondents will have. In other words, if you don’t include someone […]

Top 10 Tips for Launching your PARTNER Survey

Blogs, Support

Top 10 Tips for Launching your PARTNER Survey

As the product manager of the PARTNER tool, I field a lot of questions about how to launch the surveys. From simple questions about how to find resources, to more complex situations like how to deal with changes after you begin. Launching any survey can […]

Eight Tips for Designing a PARTNER Tool Survey

Blogs, Support

Eight Tips for Designing a PARTNER Tool Survey

The PARTNER Tool is a survey and network analysis tool that helps measure and analyze the quality and structure of inter-organizational networks. Using PARTNER data, network managers can be more strategic in how they build, manage and evaluate their networks to improve processes and outcomes […]

Webinar: Cross-Sector Community Network Evaluations: Stories of Success Using the Partner Tool

Support, Webinars

Webinar: Cross-Sector Community Network Evaluations: Stories of Success Using the Partner Tool

https://www.youtube.com/embed/no7Q_Ng1fG0 Presenters: Blythe Butler, First 2000 Days Network & Jennifer Marshall, Florida’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Hear from a panel of experienced community network evaluators on how they adopted and implemented the social network analysis tool, PARTNER, to evaluate the relationships […]

Webinar: Network Evaluation Using the Partner Tool

Support, Webinars

Webinar: Network Evaluation Using the Partner Tool

https://www.youtube.com/embed/E48V_i5D0M8 Presenter: Danielle Varda, Visible Network Labs As more organizations and communities collaborate, measuring, evaluating, and using data from community networks can be a challenging endeavor. A novel yet growing approach is the use of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to assess the quality and quantity […]