Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Brief
Aligning Federal Funding to Build Resilient, Equitable Communities
This brief analyzes and translates information, principles, and methods that support states, communities, and fiscal intermediaries in aligning resources and strategies across sectors and in moving the fast-flowing federal COVID-19 relief and recovery resources in a way that meets community needs and builds resilient, equitable futures.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Case Study
Leveraging Federal Funds to Improve Health and Equity: Pathways Community HUB Model
This case study highlights how proven models, such as the Pathways Community HUB approach, can be prioritized and deployed to efficiently and effectively drive change now and in the long term.
Shared Purpose
Financing
Purpose
Brief
Four Principles for a Resilient, Equitable Recovery
This brief highlights four principles to help leaders maximize the benefits of federal relief and recovery investments and lay the foundation for an equitable response to future crises.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
Brief
Estimating Cross-Sector Impacts of Permanent Supportive Housing in Los Angeles Evidence Brief
This brief examines the cross-sector impacts of permanent supportive housing programming (housing placement, financial subsidies, and supportive services) for homeless individuals who are high-utilizers of county-provided health services.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Social Services
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.
Data
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Lessons Learned from Partnerships Between Networks of Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Organizations
This brief highlights themes and lessons learned through the Advancing Resilience and Community Health initiative, designed to help networks of nonprofit community-based organizations develop new contracts, payment models, and partnership approaches with health care payors to achieve better health outcomes across the United States.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Webinar
Should Community Resource Referral Platforms be a Public Good?
This podcast episode explores pressing questions surrounding the governance and interoperability of software platforms marketed to health care systems and designed to streamline information about and connection to community resources to address social needs.
Data
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Publication
Aligning Systems for Health: Two Years of Learning
This book advances the understanding of how people and organizations across health care, public health, and social services sectors can work together in new and sustainable ways to advance health and well-being.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Biden’s Public Health Budget Goes Well Beyond Emergency COVID-19 Investments
This article examines the proposed $9.6 billion budget for public health programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and opportunities to guarantee long-term funding for key investments in public health infrastructure and community partnerships.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Brief
Advancing Equity and Alignment During Implementation of the American Rescue Plan Act
This brief highlights the Funders Forum on Accountable Health's convening to discuss how best to advance equity and alignment across sectors during implementation of American Rescue Plan Act.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services