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Aligning for Equity: Translating Insights into Actionable Tools for Shifting Power Dynamics
Aligning for Equity is the culmination of the multi-year Aligning Systems for Health initiative, led by the Georgia Health Policy Center and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Building on prior phases—Aligning Systems for Health, Aligning Federal Funds, and Aligning in Crisis—this project explores what it takes to not only align systems, but to align them equitably.
Through deep engagement with community organizations, funders, and institutional partners, Aligning for Equity focuses on how power, equity, and trust operate in real cross-sector partnerships. The project produced the Community-Led Aligning Toolkit, an interactive learning resource that translates years of research and community wisdom into accessible, actionable guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and funders.
The toolkit helps users operationalize four core components of equitable alignment—shared purpose, shared data, shared governance, and shared financing—while centering the adaptive factors that make alignment work: community voice, equity, power, and trust.
By pairing systems-thinking with equity-centered practice, Aligning for Equity reinforces that sustainable alignment requires shared accountability and authentic collaboration. It represents both the capstone and next chapter of GHPC’s effort to build systems that serve everyone more justly.