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Entrepreneurship Incubation & Technical Assistance

01 Entrepreneurship Incubation & Technical Assistance · 43 edit slice
23
orgs
43
activities
6
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 23 organizations and 43 activities — RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND, PRESCOTT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HEATSYNC LABS, NORTHERN ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY & and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (96%) and California (4%). The field's most common shared approach is "Case-by-Case Incentive Evaluation", run by 1 orgs.
RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND and PRESCOTT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 96% · 22 orgs
California 4% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 96% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 23

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Arizona Commerce Authority 1
Government
Arizona Department of Transportation 1
Government
Arizona Office of Tourism 1
Government
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona 1
Corporate
CDFI Fund 1
Government
EDA 1
Government
Freeport-McMoRan Foundation 1
Foundation
Kiva.org 1
Government
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) 1
Foundation
Mastercard 1
Corporate
New Markets Tax Credits (federal program) 1
Government
Pima County 1
Government
Ripple 1
Corporate
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 1
Government
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Case-by-Case Incentive Evaluation
3
DMCA Compliance Framework
3
Gender-Integrated Policy Design
3
Investment Readiness Training
3
Legal Empowerment Through Information
3
Standards-Based Program Design
1
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

APS Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
SCORE Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Bank of America Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Banner Health Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Chandler-Gilbert Community College Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Granite Mountain Distillery Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Mountain Park Health Center Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Northern Arizona SCORE Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Prescott Area Young Professionals Partner
shared by 2 orgs
SBDC (Small Business Development Center) Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Salt River Project Partner
shared by 2 orgs
local businesses Partner
shared by 2 orgs
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

5.1M
People served
from 7 orgs
4.0M
annual revenue
from 2 orgs
175K
member count
from 2 orgs
37K
Staff
from 3 orgs
174
Partner organizations
from 5 orgs