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01 Community Needs Assessment & Research · 258 edit slice
117
orgs
400
activities
47
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 117 organizations and 400 activities — STATE BAR OF ARIZONA, THE STATE OF BLACK ARIZONA, VOICES FOR EDUCATION-ARIZONA CHILDREN FIRST, PETSMART CHARITIES and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 19 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% · 117 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 117

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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.

City of Tucson 2
Government
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona 2
Foundation
State of Arizona 2
Government
USDA 2
Government
ADHS’ Sexual Violence Prevention and Education program 1
Government
AHCCCS 1
Government
APS 1
Corporate
ATS Electric Inc 1
Corporate
AZFlex Program 1
Government
Abbett Family Foundation 1
Foundation
AbilityOne Program 1
Government
Accent Building Restoration (ABR) 1
Corporate
Administration for Community Living (ACL) 1
Government
Alex & Associates 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
Community-Led Systems Change
2
52
2
Collective Advocacy
1
6
47
3
Holistic Youth Development
1
23
6
Person-Centered Empowerment
4
23
4
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
14
1
Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
20
1
Peer-Based Healing and Support
3
10
2
Housing as Health
3
4
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.

Arizona State University Partner
shared by 10 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 8 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Center for the Future of Arizona Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Southwest Gas Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Diamondbacks Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Banner Health Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Tucson Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Greater Phoenix Economic Council Partner
shared by 3 orgs
GuideStar Network
shared by 3 orgs
IRS Government
shared by 3 orgs
Maricopa Community Colleges Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 3 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.

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.

413.3M
Pounds distributed
from 4 orgs
79.1M
People served
from 31 orgs
6.0M
annual revenue
from 3 orgs
150K
member count
from 2 orgs
7K
Partner organizations
from 31 orgs