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01 Community Research & Needs Assessment · 119 edit slice
50
orgs
155
activities
17
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 50 organizations and 155 activities — THE HALCYON MOVEMENT, THE STATE OF BLACK ARIZONA, MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Fresno County Economic Opportunities and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (80%) and California (20%). The field's most common shared approach is "AI-Powered Media Literacy", run by 1 orgs.
THE HALCYON MOVEMENT and THE STATE OF BLACK ARIZONA hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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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 80% · 40 orgs
California 20% · 10 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 50

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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
Indian Health Service 2
Government
State of Arizona 2
Government
USDA 2
Government
211 LA County 1
Corporate
AHCCCS 1
Government
Arizona Cardinals 1
Corporate
Arizona Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Arizona Department of Education 1
Government
Arizona Department of Transportation 1
Government
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) 1
Government
Arizona Office of Tourism 1
Government
Best California Movers 1
Corporate
Blue Cross Blue Shield 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
AI-Powered Media Literacy
1
AI-Powered Merit Assessment
1
Accessible Civic Debates
2
Advocacy Against Data Exploitation
7
4
1
Aviation-Led Economic Growth
3
Clemency Advocacy
2
Community-Funded Support Model
1
Controlled Media Engagement
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.

Arizona State University Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 3 orgs
Center for the Future of Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Flinn Foundation Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Greater Phoenix Economic Council Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Greater Phoenix Leadership Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Southern Arizona Leadership Council Partner
shared by 3 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Vitalyst Health Foundation Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona State University (ASU) Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Funder
shared by 2 orgs
City of Tempe Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Tucson Partner
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.

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.

1.1M
People served
from 15 orgs
41K
Partner organizations
from 24 orgs
2K
Staff
from 8 orgs
103
Countries served
from 5 orgs