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Employment and Entrepreneurship Support

01 Employment and Entrepreneurship Support · 12 edit slice
4
orgs
12
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 12 activities — TUCSON REFUGEE MINISTRY, THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT, Somali American United Council of, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY FOR EMPOWERMENT and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "HELP Communication Framework", run by 1 orgs.
TUCSON REFUGEE MINISTRY and THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT 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
Arizona 100% · 4 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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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.

MCHSD ARPA Program 1
Government
Phoenix Suns Foundation 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
HELP Communication Framework
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.

ASU Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
ALL AMERICAN COALITION Partner
shared by 1 org
ARIZONA REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Women Partnership Partner
shared by 1 org
AZWP Partner
shared by 1 org
Adelayo Law Firm, PLLC Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Healthcare Outreach Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Refugee Resettlement Program Partner
shared by 1 org
Arrive and Thrive Partner
shared by 1 org
Avenir Consulting Partners Partner
shared by 1 org
Berens Blonstein PLC Partner
shared by 1 org
Candid Partner
shared by 1 org
Catholic Charities AZ Partner
shared by 1 org
Charity Navigator Partner
shared by 1 org
City Police Department 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 TUCSON REFUGEE MINISTRY AZ · 5 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 Somali American United Council of AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS COMMUNITY FOR EMPOWERMENT AZ · 2 · 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.

4K
People served
from 2 orgs