Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Context and Outcomes for Aligning
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the context and outcomes of aligning efforts from interviews and sense-making sessions with catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Making Aligning Work: Reflections on 18 Months of Aligning Across Sectors
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures reflections on the progress made in the field around aligning sectors, the implications of the triple crisis for aligning efforts, and considerations for the future of aligning across sectors.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Making Aligning Work: Adaptive Factors
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the adaptive factors of aligning systems including trust, equity, power dynamics, and community voice.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Brief
Making Aligning Work: An Early Look at COVID-19’s Impact on Cross-Sector Alignment
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health's Making Aligning Work series–focuses on very early observations about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts communities aligning health care, public health, and social services, with a focus on the components of the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change — internal capacity; urgency; shared purpose, data, financing, and governance; community engagement; and a focus on equity.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Systemic Racism and Cross-Sector Alignment
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–focuses on themes emerging from initial conversations around how cross-sector alignment might address systemic racism.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Purpose, Data, Financing, and Governance
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the core components of aligned systems identified in the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change: purpose, data, financing, and governance.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Making Aligning Work Series
This series mines the experience of catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors—health care, public health, and social services—through quarterly interviews (fall 2019 through spring 2021).
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Brief
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Equity, Racial Equity, and Racial Health Equity as Aligning Outcomes
This brief poses questions for researchers and practitioners to consider when developing a strategy for measuring health equity, racial equity, and racial health equity as outcomes of an aligning endeavor.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Aligning in Crisis: Implementing Four Principles for a Resilient, Equitable Recovery
This brief features four principles that government agencies and local fiscal intermediaries can use to guide planning for use of COVID-19 recovery funds.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Akron Children’s Hospital/Kent State University
This brief summarizes Akron Children's Hospital/Kent State University's Aligning Systems for Health rapid-cycle research grant findings, which explored whether the Pathways Community HUB model fosters aligning across sectors.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101