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Small Business & Entrepreneurship Development

01 Small Business & Entrepreneurship Development · 398 edit slice
75
orgs
387
activities
24
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 75 organizations and 387 activities — KOZOLCHYK NATIONAL LAW CENTER, GROWTH PARTNERS ARIZONA, Arizona Womens Business Enterprise Counc, ARG CULTIVATORS COMMUNITY and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Networked Ecosystem Development", run by 24 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% · 75 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 75

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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.

USDA 5
Government
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona 2
Corporate
AMY ZUCKERMAN-SOLOMON FUND 1
Foundation
Arizona Commerce Authority 1
Government
Arizona Commerce Authority 1
Corporate
Arizona Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) 1
Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff 1
Foundation
Arizona Department of Transportation 1
Government
Arizona Office of Tourism 1
Government
Arizona Public Service (APS) 1
Corporate
BMO 1
Corporate
Bank of America 1
Corporate
Black Philanthropy Initiative (BPI) 1
Foundation
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
Networked Ecosystem Development
68
66
Community-Led Systems Change
29
27
Holistic Youth Development
17
22
Person-Centered Empowerment
10
13
Asset-Building Through Dignified Financial Inclusion
21
12
Collective Advocacy
9
6
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
12
2
Certification-Linked Opportunity Access
10
12
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 Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Local First Arizona Partner
shared by 6 orgs
SCORE Partner
shared by 5 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 4 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 4 orgs
University of Phoenix Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Public Service (APS) Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Bank of America Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Cox Communications Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Instagram Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Lockheed Martin Partner
shared by 3 orgs
National Bank of Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Partner
shared by 3 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.

28.8M
People served
from 20 orgs
5.0M
annual revenue
from 3 orgs
175K
member count
from 3 orgs
16K
Partner organizations
from 20 orgs
2K
Staff
from 9 orgs
151
Volunteers
from 2 orgs