Last month, the VNL team shared the four most common challenges PARTNER CPRM users face when managing their community partner ecosystems. In this upcoming series, we’ll dive into each topic to provide a clear path forward.

This series is designed to help ecosystem organizers, network leaders, and community partners manage their partner spreadsheets as a trackable, measurable, and actionable asset. By applying ecosystem tracking practices, you’ll learn how to shift from scattered information to a system that strengthens your team’s—and your ecosystem’s—capacity for impact.

Across four sessions, we’ll cover how to:

• Turn your spreadsheets into a strong PARTNER CPRM database, allowing you to segment your ecosystem and manage members in an easy-to-enter, track, and analyze process.

• Use PARTNER network surveys and forms to capture data about your ecosystem members.

• Translate the data you collect into insights, visualizations, and strategies that drive action and guide intentional network strategy.

• Share findings with ecosystem members to enable shared, evidence-based decision-making.

We’ve worked with hundreds of communities across the country—from local coalitions and community-based organizations to state agencies and national funders. These sessions distill what we’ve learned about what works (and what doesn’t) and offer support for using PARTNER CPRM to turn your spreadsheets into a partnership data library and analysis tool.