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Culinary Training and Food Entrepreneurship Programs

01 Culinary Training and Food Entrepreneurship Programs · 39 edit slice
14
orgs
39
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 14 organizations and 39 activities — THE JOY BUS, ST JOSEPH CENTER, GAP MINISTRIES, UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (86%) and California (14%). The field's most common shared approach is "Controlled Disruption Training", run by 1 orgs.
THE JOY BUS and ST JOSEPH CENTER 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 86% · 12 orgs
California 14% · 2 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 86% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 14

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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 2
Government
AMCF 1
Corporate
APS 1
Corporate
Arabella Advisors 1
Corporate
Arizona Diamondbacks 1
Corporate
BOK 1
Corporate
Circle K 1
Corporate
CopperPoint 1
Corporate
County of San Mateo 1
Government
Cox 1
Corporate
Department of Children and Family Services 1
Government
Department of Mental Health 1
Government
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) 1
Government
Federal food assistance programs 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
Controlled Disruption Training
1
Progressive Skill Building
3
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.

AHCCCS Government
shared by 1 org
AMCF Partner
shared by 1 org
APS Partner
shared by 1 org
Agape Christian Fellowship Partner
shared by 1 org
AmeriCorps VISTA Partner
shared by 1 org
Ameriprise Financial Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Complete Health Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Coyotes Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Child Safety Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Diamondbacks Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Office of Licensing and Regulation Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 1 org
Ascension Lutheran Church Partner
shared by 1 org
Association of Fundraising Professionals Network
shared by 1 org
BHHS Legacy Foundation Funder
shared by 1 org
BOK 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 THE JOY BUS AZ · 5 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 ST JOSEPH CENTER CA · 5 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 GAP MINISTRIES AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 STAR-STAND TOGETHER AND AZ · 4 · 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.

54K
People served
from 7 orgs
1K
Partner organizations
from 6 orgs
674
Staff
from 2 orgs