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Financial Services & Economic Empowerment

01 Financial Services & Economic Empowerment · 231 edit slice
36
orgs
231
activities
12
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 36 organizations and 231 activities — COPPER STATE CREDIT UNION, ARIZONA CENTRAL CREDIT UNION, VANTAGE WEST CREDIT UNION, LANDINGS CREDIT UNION and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 14 orgs.
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 100% · 36 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 36

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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 Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) 1
Government
CU West CARES Charitable Foundation 1
Foundation
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 1
Government
Credit Union West employee donations 1
Individuals
Hopi Tribe 1
Government
Japanese government 1
Government
NDN Collective 1
Government
Oweesta 1
Government
River Fund 1
Individuals
State of Arizona 1
Government
US Department of Treasury 1
Government
USDA 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
Community-Led Systems Change
56
2
Personalized Financial Empowerment
134
Member-Owned Cooperative Model
87
Asset-Building Through Dignified Financial Inclusion
2
Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
2
Community-Embedded Response Networks
3
Direct Crisis Intervention
1
Experiential Learning Model
3
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.

Arizona Corporation Commission Government
shared by 7 orgs
National Credit Union Administration Government
shared by 3 orgs
Visa Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Xpress Bill Pay Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Apple Pay Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Water Resources Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Power Electric Cooperative Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Cochise County Sheriff's Department Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Google Pay Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Phoenix Children's Hospital Partner
shared by 2 orgs
SSVEC Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
SafeElectricity.org Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Samsung Pay Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Network
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.

3.3B
assets
from 2 orgs
1.8M
People served
from 8 orgs
91K
meters served
from 2 orgs
65K
member count
from 2 orgs
9K
miles of line
from 3 orgs