Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Webinar
Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding
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.
Financing
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Multi-Dimensional COVID-19 Control in the U.S.
This webinar presents how the allocation of resources across medical, social, and public health services at the county level influences the relative success in controlling the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan
This brief explores how stewards in Palm Beach County, Florida and a five-town region in southeast Michigan determined how to reallocate resources to create more equitable regional systems for health and well-being.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
The State of the Field of Complex Care 2022
This publication outlines trends that impacted the field of complex care on the national level in 2021.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
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.
Financing
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the University of California, Berkeley
This brief assesses how pre-existing work to align health care, public health, and social services within Contra Costa County, Calif., was used and adapted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Center for Health Progress
This brief examines the pandemic’s impact on how organizations engage marginalized community members in cross-sector collaboratives.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs
Brief
Applying the Aligning in Crisis Principles
These briefs present principles and practical questions that government agencies and local fiscal intermediaries, like local wellness funds and health-oriented community collaboratives, can use to guide planning for use of COVID-19 recovery funds.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
Publication
Leveraging Federal Funds and Intermediaries to Build Equitable Cities
This blog details how cities can partner with intermediary organizations to leverage the hundreds of billions of dollars to provide immediate relief and help plan for equitable responses to future crises.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health