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Education Workforce & Professional Development

01 Education Workforce & Professional Development · 470 edit slice
68
orgs
381
activities
28
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 68 organizations and 381 activities — NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN, ARIZONA CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL, ILLUSTRATIVE MATHEMATICS, ARIZONA COALITION OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Collective Advocacy", run by 8 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% · 68 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 68

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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.

U.S. Department of Education 3
Government
Arizona Department of Child Safety 2
Government
First Things First 2
Government
Season for Sharing 2
Foundation
State of Arizona 2
Government
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 2
Foundation
APS, BBB, ACF, Gore, United Way of Northern Arizona 1
Corporate
Arizona Blue Foundation 1
Foundation
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit 1
Individuals
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit program 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation’s Kellenberger + Tollefson Center for LGBTQ Philanthropy 1
Foundation
Arizona Department of Education / Adult Education Services 1
Government
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management 1
Government
Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith, and Family 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
Collective Advocacy
17
12
33
Holistic Youth Development
5
2
18
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
5
8
1
16
Community-Led Systems Change
3
13
Peer-Led Capacity Building
9
17
Personalized Learning Pathways
3
4
17
Teacher-Centered Systemic Improvement
26
4
44
Family-School-Community Partnership
15
4
10
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 State University Partner
shared by 11 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 6 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 6 orgs
First Things First Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Child Safety Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Partner
shared by 3 orgs
NAEYC Network
shared by 3 orgs
Southwest Human Development Partner
shared by 3 orgs
TNTP Partner
shared by 3 orgs
U.S. Department of Education Funder
shared by 3 orgs
University of Phoenix Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Valley of the Sun United Way Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Funder
shared by 3 orgs
American Heart Association Partner
shared by 2 orgs
American Lung Association 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.

46K
Staff
from 13 orgs
750
member count
from 2 orgs
17
Countries served
from 4 orgs