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Employment Placement & Career Advancement

01 Employment Placement & Career Advancement · 8 edit slice
4
orgs
8
activities
4
strategies
CA
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 8 activities — Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa, GOODWILL OF SILICON VALLEY, ASSOCIATED STUDENTS UCLA, CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION and others. Activity concentrates in California (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Integrated Operations Model", run by 1 orgs.
Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa and GOODWILL OF SILICON VALLEY 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
California 100% · 4 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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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.

DHHS 1
Government
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) 1
Government
Federal Work Study Program 1
Government
Federal Work-Study Program 1
Government
Pepsi 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
Integrated Operations Model
1
Responsive Service Model
1
Structured Student Employment
1
Student-Centered Employment
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.

Goodwill Industries International Network
shared by 2 orgs
86 Costs Partner
shared by 1 org
Allan Hancock College Partner
shared by 1 org
Buenger Commercial Real Estate, Inc. Partner
shared by 1 org
CBRE Partner
shared by 1 org
Cal Poly Pomona Partner
shared by 1 org
Cal Poly Pomona Government
shared by 1 org
California State University Partner
shared by 1 org
Contract Services division Partner
shared by 1 org
Council of California Goodwill Industries Network
shared by 1 org
DRAGG Partner
shared by 1 org
Department of Rehabilitation Program Partner
shared by 1 org
Edward Jones Partner
shared by 1 org
Food Share of Ventura County Partner
shared by 1 org
Goodwill retail operations Network
shared by 1 org
Hinshaw Insurance Agency 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 Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa CA · 5 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 GOODWILL OF SILICON VALLEY INC CA · 1 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS UCLA CA · 1 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC CA · 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.

2K
Staff
from 2 orgs
38
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs