Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results

Webinar
Community Voices Panel: Shifting Power
This webinar on April 1 explores ways to empower and elevate the voice of community members in cross-sector aligning efforts.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Aligning in Action: The Health Project
The brief examines how Mercy Health uses community benefit dollars to fund community-facing initiatives through the Health Project.
Health Care
Social Needs

Brief
Framework for Aligning Sectors With Glossary
This framework visually depicts how aligned systems require that sectors think and work together in fundamentally new ways to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve in ways that are built to last.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Report
Collaboration in Communities to Address COVID-19
This report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation follows nine diverse communities across the United States from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic through October 2020. It details how cross-sector collaboration is contributing to ongoing response and recovery efforts.
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Case Study
Aligning in Action: Mississippi Delta Promise Communities through the Delta Health Alliance
This case study explores how two Mississippi Delta Promise Communities developed a “cradle-to-career” national model that builds a pipeline of programs, services, and supports so that children and youth in distressed communities can succeed in school and beyond.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Akron Children’s Hospital/Kent State University
This brief summarizes Akron Children's Hospital/Kent State University's Aligning Systems for Health rapid-cycle research grant findings, which explored whether the Pathways Community HUB model fosters aligning across sectors.
Alignment 101

Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings
This collection of briefs summarizes Aligning Systems for Health rapid-cycle research grant findings.
Alignment 101

Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Communities Joined in Action
This brief summarizes Communities Joined in Action's Aligning Systems for Health rapid-cycle research grant findings, which explored what internal and external factors impact cross-sector partnership design, functionality, and sustainability, as well as in what ways partnership dynamics are influenced by these factors.
Alignment 101

Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Public Health Solutions
This brief summarizes Public Health Solution's Aligning Systems for Health rapid-cycle research grant findings, which explored the barriers and facilitators that affect how co-located social services in safety net hospitals increase access to existing services addressing social needs outside the hospital walls, as well as if implementing such services upon core elements of cross-sector alignment lead to improvement in the quality and follow-up of referrals to social services evolved influenced by these factors.
Alignment 101

Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings From JSI
This brief summarizes JSI's Aligning Systems for Health rapid-cycle research grant findings, which explored how multi-sector collaboratives are sequencing attention to and developing the core components, as well as how questions of equity have emerged and been addressed through the development of the core components.
Alignment 101