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Microfinance and Business Training for Entrepreneurs

01 Microfinance and Business Training for Entrepreneurs · 36 edit slice
14
orgs
36
activities
9
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 14 organizations and 36 activities — HOPE ARISING, PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL, A SONG IN THE NIGHT, Food For The Hungry and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Empowerment Through Incentives", run by 1 orgs.
HOPE ARISING and PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL 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 100% · 14 orgs
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 4
Government
Arizona Public Service (APS) 1
Corporate
Bombardier 1
Corporate
Casa Bernabe 1
Corporate
Freeport-McMoRan Foundation 1
Foundation
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 1
Government
Pima County 1
Government
Salt River Project 1
Corporate
Smiles for Hope dental practices 1
Corporate
State of Arizona 1
Government
U.S. Department of Education 1
Government
US Department of Treasury 1
Government
USAID 1
Government
University of Phoenix 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
Empowerment Through Incentives
2
Financial Impact Tracking
3
4
Gender-Integrated Policy Design
2
Legal Empowerment Through Information
2
Low-Cost Gift Delivery
3
Recognition of Lifelong Service
5
Repayment Tied to Savings
2
SDG-Aligned Impact Measurement
2
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.

ACCION International Partner
shared by 2 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 2 orgs
AmeriCorps Funder
shared by 2 orgs
Community Investment Corporation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
FAI de Sonora Partner
shared by 2 orgs
FONAES Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 2 orgs
K-12 Inc. Partner
shared by 2 orgs
LULAC Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Mississippi Delta Council Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Pima County Government
shared by 2 orgs
Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center Partner
shared by 2 orgs
University of Phoenix Partner
shared by 2 orgs
World Care Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Youthbuild USA Funder
shared by 2 orgs
3-Nations Market 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.

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.

18.0M
People served
from 7 orgs
1K
Staff
from 2 orgs
270
Partner organizations
from 4 orgs
35
Countries served
from 3 orgs