Resource Library

What role does power and privilege play when designing for the social sector? How does that impact what good design looks like? This webinar and workshop on November 13 served as a wake-up call for designers working to make social change where the risk of doing harm is as likely as the promise of doing good.

This brief examines the conceptualization and measurement of power dynamics in the context of aligning efforts and provides questions that are superlatively important for understanding and advancing aligning efforts.

This webinar on April 1 explores ways to empower and elevate the voice of community members in cross-sector aligning efforts.

This case study features the All Children Thrive (ACT) Learning Network at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, including the intricacies of the ACT model, how it’s adapted in light of COVID-19, and the path forward.

This video highlights the co-creation principle, exploring how measurement can be co-created by communities to center their values, needs, priorities, and actions.

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

On October 14, a panel of experts explained how they’ve found success in governing cross-sector relationships with power dynamics, community voice, trust, and other factors at play.

This brief focuses on equity as it relates to the individual inner elements of the alignment framework: shared purpose, governance, data, finance, trust, power, and community voice.