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Lessons Learned from Partnerships Between Networks of Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Organizations
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Lessons Learned from Partnerships Between Networks of Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Organizations

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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. Themes from the program include:

  • Contracts have more disadvantages than benefits
  • Networks redefined success by prioritizing communities over contracts
  • Addressing health equity means centering racial equity
  • It’s time to invest in community-led solutions
Webinar

Creating Shared Purpose: A Conversation with Paul Born

This webinar examines how sectors can develop shared purpose when working towards improving community health.

Publication

American Institutes for Research

This video highlights the co-creation principle, exploring how measurement can be co-created by communities to center their values, needs, priorities, and actions.

Case Study

Aligning in Crisis: Finding Shared Purpose

This case study highlights how the Baltimore Health Corps is finding shared purpose to work across sectors and address the triple crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 economic downturn, and the ongoing impact of structural racism.