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Local Business Advocacy & Economic Development

01 Local Business Advocacy & Economic Development · 99 edit slice
29
orgs
99
activities
9
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 29 organizations and 99 activities — SCOTTSDALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PINAL ALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, PRESCOTT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, GREATER ORO VALLEY CHAMBER OF and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Networked Ecosystem Development", run by 18 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% · 29 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 29

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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.

Global Water Resources 1
Corporate
USDA 1
Government
Union Pacific 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
Networked Ecosystem Development
2
43
17
Peer-Led Capacity Building
1
6
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
9
Citizen Diplomacy through Exchange
3
1
Civic Education for Empowerment
5
Collective Advocacy
2
Endowment for Sustainability
2
4
Holistic Youth Development
3
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 3 orgs
SCORE Partner
shared by 3 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 2 orgs
AZ Perfect Comfort Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Allstate Insurance Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Water Company Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Central Arizona College Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Casa Grande Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Eloy Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Goodyear Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Global Water Resources Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Guild Mortgage Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Honeywell Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Partner
shared by 2 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.

5K
member count
from 2 orgs