Resources
Tools and insights to accelerate impact.
Community health moves faster when local leaders set the pace. Use these toolkits, templates, and briefs to turn priorities into funded, well-run programs—without reinventing the wheel.
What’s New at Shift Accelerator?
Shift Gathers Health Leaders To Explore Participatory Investing Tools and Practices
- 1 July
- / Community Governance, Community Health Equity, Participatory Investing, Trust Building
How can we better support leaders serving refugee and immigrant communities?
- 26 March
- / Community Health Equity
Nature of Trust Launch
- 28 January
- / Trust Building
Shift Gathering
- 22 August
- / Participatory Investing
Shift and BARHII Collaborate to Discuss Participatory Investing
- 30 June
- / Participatory Investing
Continuing Our Journey with Real People’s Fund: Strengthening Community Governance and Power
- 6 March
- / Community Governance
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FAQs
Can you tell me more about Shift's structure?
Shift is a peer-led, national network of leaders committed to community-led change as a pathway to accelerate health and racial equity. This structure enables us to be nimble and engage a variety of perspectives and expertise across our work – click here to find out more about our team.
Where does Shift work?
Our work takes place across the country, both at the national level as well as at the place-based level. You can read more about our specific initiatives and partners here.
What services does Shift offer?
Shift provides advising, facilitation, coaching, and tools to help organizations advance community-led approaches to health equity. We work with institutions, community leaders, and cross-sector partnerships to design strategies, build community governance structures, test participatory investing or grantmaking models, and strengthen accountability for health equity commitments. We tailor our support to each project and often engage leaders from our national network to bring relevant community-rooted expertise to the work.
Get in touch to learn more about our services: info@shifthealthaccelerator.org
What tools does Shift have to support my work?
Shift has developed tools to support healthcare and community leaders who are interested in advancing their community partnership work. To learn more, visit our resources page which contains resources related to community engagement, decision-making, and implementation.
How can I partner with Shift?
If you’re interested in exploring a partnership, please reach out so we can learn about your goals and discuss how we might support deeper community-driven change in your work. We typically start with a short conversation or assessment to understand your initiatives and identify ways we might support your work, such as strategy advising, trust-building across sectors, participatory governance or investing pilots, or place-based innovation. If there is alignment, we develop a proposed scope of work and assemble a team, often matching expertise from Shift’s network of community-rooted leaders to the needs of the project.
We also are excited to hear and collaborate with organizations on ideas for moving the fields of healthcare, public health, social services, and more. Get in touch to collaborate with us: info@shifthealthaccelerator.org