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Research, Advocacy & Community Impact

01 Research, Advocacy & Community Impact · 329 edit slice
136
orgs
474
activities
53
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 136 organizations and 474 activities — US DIPLOMATIC, RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH IN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, KOZOLCHYK NATIONAL LAW CENTER, CAMPAIGN FOR ACCOUNTABILITY & and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (73%) and California (27%). The field's most common shared approach is "AI-Powered Media Literacy", run by 1 orgs.
US DIPLOMATIC and RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH IN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT 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 73% · 99 orgs
California 27% · 37 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 136

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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 8
Government
California Department of Social Services 2
Government
City of Tucson 2
Government
Indian Health Service 2
Government
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2
Government
State of Arizona 2
Government
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2
Government
211 LA County 1
Corporate
AHCCCS 1
Government
APS 1
Corporate
Administration for Community Living (ACL) 1
Government
Andrew Z Diamonds & Fine Jewelry 1
Corporate
Arizona Cardinals 1
Corporate
Arizona Community Foundation 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
AI-Powered Media Literacy
1
1
AI-Powered Merit Assessment
1
Academic Freedom for Civic Engagement
7
2
Accessible Civic Debates
2
Advance Payment Based on Need
6
Advocacy Against Data Exploitation
7
4
1
Aviation-Led Economic Growth
3
Balanced Scholarly Inclusion
1
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 9 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 7 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 5 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Center for the Future of Arizona Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Flinn Foundation Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Greater Phoenix Economic Council Partner
shared by 4 orgs
USDA Government
shared by 4 orgs
Feeding America Network
shared by 3 orgs
Google Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Greater Phoenix Leadership Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Greater Phoenix Urban League Partner
shared by 3 orgs
IRS Government
shared by 3 orgs
Salt River Project Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Southern Arizona Leadership Council 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.

486.6M
Pounds distributed
from 4 orgs
5.0M
annual revenue
from 3 orgs
2.7M
Meals provided
from 4 orgs