Resource Library

The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Clear All X

Results
Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons
Brief

Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons

Data Across Sectors for Health
11.2022
Data Icon Data
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
Health Care
Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan
Brief

Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan

ReThink Health
06.06.2022
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 Icon Financing
Governance Icon Governance
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

Aligning in Crisis, Georgia Health Policy Center, George Washington University
05.2022
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 Icon Data
Financing Icon Financing
Governance Icon Governance
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs
Brief

Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs

National Center for Complex Health & Social Needs
02.14.2022
This brief explores how different organizations and community members define and measure the value of cross-sector collaboration by convening key informant focus groups with organizations and also with affiliated community members involved in cross-sector efforts.
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings
Brief

The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.07.2021
This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings
Brief

Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.06.2021
This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.
Data Icon Data
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the University of California, Berkeley
Brief

Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the University of California, Berkeley

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.03.2021
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 Icon Data
Governance Icon Governance
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab
Brief

Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.03.2021
This brief highlights measures for aligning that health-oriented multisector collaboratives can use to assess their progress across the elements of the Framework for Aligning Sectors.
Data Icon Data
Financing Icon Financing
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Center for Health Progress
Brief

Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Center for Health Progress

12.03.2021
This brief examines the pandemic’s impact on how organizations engage marginalized community members in cross-sector collaboratives.
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Camden Coalition
Brief

Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Camden Coalition

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.03.2021
This brief examines perceptions of value of cross-sector collaboration toward serving populations with complex health and social needs.
Shared Purpose Icon Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs