Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results

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.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Equity, Health Equity, and Racial Equity in the Framework for Aligning Sectors
This brief identifies leading definitions of equity, health equity, and racial equity, and explores their interrelationships.
Alignment 101

Webinar
Moving from Talk to Action: Advancing Equity with Results Based Accountability
This webinar on February 25 explores strategies to advance health equity with results based accountability.
Alignment 101

Publication
Moving to Center: BUILD’s Journey to Advance Health Equity
This publication examines how the BUILD Health Challenge has pursued the bold goal of improving health for all through cross-sector, upstream, and community-driven approaches.
Health Care
Social Needs

Brief
Conducting Equity Assessments
This brief examines four Cross-Sector Innovation Initiative grantees that conducted equity assessments and/or used tools to assess how their collaborative is functioning.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Aligning Across Sectors: Key Considerations for Measuring Equity
This brief provides guidance on what indicators may be helpful for measuring equity in individual collaboratives or across aligning contexts.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Report
Advancing Equity in the Nation’s COVID-19 Public Health Response and Recovery Efforts: Options for a New Administration
This paper summarizes policy and programmatic initiatives that a new administration could incorporate into its COVID-19 response and recovery efforts that will ensure a more equitable — and more effective — approach.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent
publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
A Framework for Assessing the Racial Equity Impact of the American Rescue Plan Act
This brief summarizes a convening of stakeholders, policy officials, experts, and thought leaders who discussed how government recipients of American Rescue Plan Act funding can be held accountable for focusing on equity in their decision making and programmatic choices.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Using Data Strategies to Advance Health and Racial Equity
This set of resources from the National Academy for State Health Policy illustrates how convergent analysis — which helps to depict the extent that different health conditions coexist at their worst level — can be applied to publicly available data sets to advance health and racial equity.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs