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Supported Employment for People with Disabilities

01 Supported Employment for People with Disabilities · 107 edit slice
35
orgs
107
activities
10
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 35 organizations and 107 activities — PATHWAY TO WORK, VALLEYLIFE, YES THE ARC, BEACON GROUP and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Person-Centered Empowerment", run by 20 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% · 35 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 35

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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.

AbilityOne Program 2
Government
Arizona Community Foundation 2
Foundation
Arizona Department of Child Safety 2
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security 2
Government
Arizona State Tax Credit 2
Government
ATArizona 1
Government
Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 1
Government
Amazon Smile 1
Corporate
AmeriCorps 1
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (DDD) 1
Government
Arizona Department of Economic Security Division of Developmental Disabilities (DES/DDD) 1
Government
Arizona Department of Housing (ADOH) 1
Government
Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) 1
Government
Arizona Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD) 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
Person-Centered Empowerment
64
Holistic Youth Development
17
Housing as Health
5
1
Self-Sustaining Revenue via Thrift
4
1
Experiential and Inclusive Learning
2
Financial Accessibility as Inclusion
2
Nature-Based Therapeutic Engagement
4
Neuroaffirming Engagement
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.

Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Transportation Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Division of Developmental Disabilities Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Division of Developmental Disabilities Government
shared by 2 orgs
Division of Developmental Disabilities Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Not specified Partner
shared by 2 orgs
SourceAmerica Network
shared by 2 orgs
The Arc of Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Partner
shared by 2 orgs
local businesses Partner
shared by 2 orgs
2024 Funders Funder
shared by 1 org
ABC Company, Tucson Partner
shared by 1 org
ACDL Partner
shared by 1 org
ACR accredited doctors 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.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 PATHWAY TO WORK AZ · 11 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 VALLEYLIFE AZ · 7 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 YES THE ARC AZ · 6 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 BEACON GROUP INC AZ · 5 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES AN AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
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.

49K
People served
from 14 orgs
877
Partner organizations
from 11 orgs
396
Staff
from 8 orgs