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7 Insights and Strategies from Cross-Sector Thinkers
7 Insights and Strategies from Cross-Sector Thinkers
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First, he said he would reflect on the work of GHPC on wellness funds, how stakeholder groups across the country are thinking about financing to support community health improvement, and the effects of the pandemic on that work, whether as a catalyst or as a factor in some unraveling of the partnership. A second area is alignment across sectors, particularly public health, health care, and the social sector, and how COVID-19 has affected that alignment.
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Additional priorities include impact on climate and the environment, and consumer privacy, but a considerable proportion of the priorities have to do with health outcomes. JUST Capital reviews a variety of publicly available and crowdsourced data and information about the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies on those priority elements.
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Omens shared the example of Home Depot, which JUST Capital found gave workers adequate sick leave. Some companies that employ so-called essential workers offered hazard pay at the beginning of the pandemic, but many have discontinued it.
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Omens shared that JUST Capital partnered with PolicyLink and the consulting firm FSG to develop the CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity, and outlined its three main recommendations.4 First, the blueprint calls on companies to be transparent about what they are doing internally, including the demographics, assessment on hiring and opportunities for advancement, and leadership training on antiracism. Second, the blueprint recommends that companies think about their effects in their community, including changing their approach to philanthropy and their relationships with local governments, organizations, and suppliers.
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Organizations outside health care, such as public health and the social sector, may believe that power resides in the health care system, and it is important to address that power dynamic. GHPC, Parker added, has begun thinking about the tools needed to help organizations sustain these conversations about race and power.
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Saha shared an observation that partnerships that have co-invested in community capacity building and that have approached the work with equity in mind have been able to develop far greater resilience and preparedness in their ability to solve problems. However, she added, in aiming to do good quickly, some collaborators have made some other sectors serve the ends or align with the approaches of the health care system, she added.
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" The sector may begin to see collaborations that are just about philanthropic dollars going to local sports teams shift to conversations about "aligning investments along with philanthropy, along with paying living wages, and you can start to see the outcomes that are connected in a whole different set of ways," Omens added. Parker shared that a topic that he has encountered in his work that pertains to the role of public health vis-à-vis health care is the sense that "the public sector acquiesces the role of leadership to the private sector." The (governmental)
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in them as community leaders would be something I would love to see happen as we emerge out of this pan demic so that we really have that power. Saha noted that the public sector is uniquely positioned to create an enabling policy environment.
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