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Smart Region Collaboration & Digital Infrastructure

01 Smart Region Collaboration & Digital Infrastructure · 12 edit slice
3
orgs
12
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 3 organizations and 12 activities — WESTERN MARICOPA COALITION, PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION, ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Networked Ecosystem Development", run by 2 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% · 3 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 3

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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.

Arizona Department of Transportation 1
Government
Honeywell Aerospace 1
Corporate
MORE Foundation 1
Foundation
U.S. Economic Development Administration 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
Networked Ecosystem Development
6
2
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
4
Peer-Led Capacity Building
4
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 3 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Avondale Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Goodyear Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
SRP Partner
shared by 2 orgs
The Connective Partner
shared by 2 orgs
10 to 1 Public Relations Partner
shared by 1 org
A New Leaf Coalition
shared by 1 org
AAP Automation Partner
shared by 1 org
APS Coalition
shared by 1 org
ASU Knowledge Enterprise Partner
shared by 1 org
AT&T Partner
shared by 1 org
ATMA 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 WESTERN MARICOPA COALITION AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC INNOVATION INC AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL 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.

758
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs