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Veteran Service Office Operations

01 Veteran Service Office Operations · 20 edit slice
7
orgs
20
activities
5
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 7 organizations and 20 activities — AMERICAN LEGION 27 APACHE, DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF AZ, Wayne V McMartin American Legion Post 91 and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Peer-Based Healing and Support", run by 3 orgs.
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shortlist

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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% · 7 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 7

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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.

GEO Group 1
Corporate
Home Depot 1
Corporate
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
Peer-Based Healing and Support
8
Trained Advocate Model
8
Decentralized Empowerment Model
4
Holistic Youth Development
4
Housing as Health
2
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.

The American Legion Network
shared by 2 orgs
The American Legion Partner
shared by 2 orgs
AZ Guns Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Veterans Hall of Fame Society Partner
shared by 1 org
American Legion Auxiliary Partner
shared by 1 org
American Legion Auxiliary Network
shared by 1 org
American Legion National Site Network
shared by 1 org
American Legion Post #14 Network
shared by 1 org
American Legion Post 1 Partner
shared by 1 org
American Legion Riders Partner
shared by 1 org
Apache City Council Government
shared by 1 org
Apache Junction community Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Veterans Services Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Dept of Economic Services Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Dept of Veteran Services Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Disabled Veteran Foundation Funder
shared by 1 org
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.