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Adult & Youth Literacy and Education Support

01 Adult & Youth Literacy and Education Support · 352 edit slice
82
orgs
358
activities
33
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 82 organizations and 358 activities — Make Way For Books, OUTREACH360, ARIZONA ASTHMA COALITION, Health World Education Ltd and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Holistic Youth Development", run by 17 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% · 82 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 82

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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 Education 6
Government
Fry's Food Stores 2
Corporate
Pima County 2
Government
U.S. Department of Education 2
Government
USDA 2
Government
Valley of the Sun United Way 2
Foundation
100+ Women Who Care Tucson 1
Individuals
A for Arizona 1
Government
AHCCCS ACC Plans (Care1st, Health Steward, Health Choice, Molina Complete Health, Mercy Care, Banner-University Family Care, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan) 1
Government
AZImpact 1
Corporate
AmazonSmile 1
Corporate
American Forests 1
Foundation
American Heart Association 1
Foundation
Arizona Department of Education / Adult Education Services 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
Holistic Youth Development
76
10
Community-Led Systems Change
36
Personalized Learning Pathways
43
Peer-Based Healing and Support
26
Experiential Learning Model
5
2
Faith-Integrated Formation
15
2
Housing as Health
11
Person-Centered Empowerment
25
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 Department of Education Government
shared by 6 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 4 orgs
USDA Government
shared by 4 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 4 orgs
ASU Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Christian University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Pima County Government
shared by 3 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 2 orgs
American Camp Association Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 2 orgs
Bookmans Partner
shared by 2 orgs
CARF International Government
shared by 2 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.

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 Make Way For Books AZ · 20 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 OUTREACH360 INC AZ · 19 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 ARIZONA ASTHMA COALITION AZ · 16 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 Health World Education Ltd AZ · 16 · shares w/ 0
  5. #05 HEALTHY LIFESTARS AZ · 12 · 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.

10.4M
People served
from 30 orgs
89K
Meals provided
from 3 orgs
50K
Staff
from 9 orgs
6K
Volunteers
from 5 orgs
2K
students served
from 3 orgs
2K
Partner organizations
from 22 orgs