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01 Higher Education & Professional Training · 46 edit slice
7
orgs
46
activities
3
strategies
CA
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 7 organizations and 46 activities — NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY, The Chicago School - California, William Carey International University, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES and others. Activity concentrates in California (71%) and Arizona (29%). The field's most common shared approach is "Co-Learning for Systemic Change", run by 1 orgs.
NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY and The Chicago School - California 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
California 71% · 5 orgs
Arizona 29% · 2 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 7

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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.

Academic Partnerships 1
Corporate
Alumni 1
Individuals
Arizona Department of Health Services 1
Government
Health Choice Integrated Care 1
Government
Medicaid/AHCCCS 1
Government
individual donors 1
Individuals
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
Co-Learning for Systemic Change
3
3
Narrative Career Integration
3
3
Primary-Source-Driven Curriculum
7
7
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.

116 community colleges Partner
shared by 1 org
1st Bank Partner
shared by 1 org
2025 Annual Report Network
shared by 1 org
ADP Partner
shared by 1 org
AHCCCS Government
shared by 1 org
AICCU (Associated Independent Colleges of California) Coalition
shared by 1 org
APS Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Cardinals Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Central Partner
shared by 1 org
Academic Partnerships Partner
shared by 1 org
Admissions Office Partner
shared by 1 org
Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA Partner
shared by 1 org
America Psychiatric Association Partner
shared by 1 org
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Partner
shared by 1 org
American Express Employee Giving Partner
shared by 1 org
American Heart Association Partner
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.

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.

17K
People served
from 2 orgs
2K
Staff
from 3 orgs
509
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs