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Free Speech Advocacy in Public Education

01 Free Speech Advocacy in Public Education · 8 edit slice
4
orgs
8
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 8 activities — Citizens for Free Speech Charitable, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF, BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR, Alliance Defending Freedom and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Civic Education for Empowerment", run by 3 orgs.
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shortlist

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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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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
Civic Education for Empowerment
7
Community-Led Systems Change
2
Translational Research Acceleration
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.

ACLU Network
shared by 1 org
ACLU Foundation of Arizona Network
shared by 1 org
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 1 org
Bethel Ministries Partner
shared by 1 org
Biden administration Government
shared by 1 org
Bluesky Partner
shared by 1 org
Case Inquiries at the Goldwater Institute Partner
shared by 1 org
Center for Countering Digital Hate Partner
shared by 1 org
Church and Ministry Alliance Network
shared by 1 org
City of Atlanta Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 1 org
Colorado Civil Rights Commission Partner
shared by 1 org
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Government
shared by 1 org
Grant Park Christian Academy Partner
shared by 1 org
Instagram Partner
shared by 1 org
Kino Border Initiative 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 Citizens for Free Speech Charitable AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 Alliance Defending Freedom AZ · 1 · 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.

1K
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs
2
Countries served
from 2 orgs