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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health

Brief
Four Principles for a Resilient, Equitable Recovery with City, County, and State Examples
"This brief highlights four principles and includes accompanying city, county, and state examples 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
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Investing in Community Health Through Local Wellness Funds
This case study examines how state, county, and city policymakers can now leverage significant federal relief funds to establish and support sustainable local wellness funds that improve community well-being and advance health equity during the COVID-19 pandemic recovery and beyond.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Case Study
Enhancing Pandemic Recovery Through Multisector Partnerships
This case study explores how multisector partnerships offer cost-effective, long-term solutions to uncoordinated approaches to clinical and social needs and help communities ensure a swift and equitable pandemic recovery.
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs