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Occupational Certification & Apprenticeship Training

01 Occupational Certification & Apprenticeship Training · 606 edit slice
180
orgs
906
activities
54
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 180 organizations and 906 activities — NATIONAL ELDER LAW FOUNDATION, SHEET METAL AND AIR COND TRADES INDUSTRY, PIPING INDUSTRY PROGRESS & EDUCATION, PEJATC and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Collective Advocacy", 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% · 180 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 180

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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 Health Services 3
Government
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) 3
Government
Fry's Food Stores 2
Corporate
Medicare 2
Government
SRP 2
Corporate
Thunderbirds Charities 2
Foundation
members 2
Individuals
AHCCCS 1
Government
AHCCCS Complete Care Health Plans 1
Government
AHCCCS In-Network Plans 1
Government
AIATELLA 1
Corporate
APS Foundation 1
Foundation
AZAGC PAC 1
Individuals
Administration for Community Living (ACL) 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
Collective Advocacy
35
2
80
Professionalization Through Standards
31
10
102
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
82
8
58
Community-Led Systems Change
13
8
47
Holistic Youth Development
28
16
Peer-Led Capacity Building
14
3
30
Person-Centered Empowerment
7
45
Trauma-Informed Care
6
14
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 13 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 11 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 6 orgs
OSHA Government
shared by 6 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 5 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Mercy Care Partner
shared by 5 orgs
State of Arizona Government
shared by 5 orgs
Arizona Complete Health Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Transportation Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Western College Partner
shared by 4 orgs
International Sign Association Network
shared by 4 orgs
Midwestern University Partner
shared by 4 orgs
APS 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.

515K
member count
from 7 orgs
348K
Staff
from 20 orgs
655
Volunteers
from 2 orgs
58
Countries served
from 7 orgs