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Economic & Cultural Development Initiatives

01 Economic & Cultural Development Initiatives · 128 edit slice
32
orgs
128
activities
8
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 32 organizations and 128 activities — TONATIERRA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN, DINE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Hopi Credit Association and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (81%) and California (19%). The field's most common shared approach is "Culturally Grounded Planning", run by 1 orgs.
TONATIERRA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE and NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN 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 81% · 26 orgs
California 19% · 6 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 81% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 32

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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.

Medi-Cal 4
Government
USDA 3
Government
Indian Health Service (IHS) 2
Government
AHCCCS 1
Government
American Indian Law Alliance 1
Foundation
Arizona Department of Economic Security 1
Government
Bezos Day 1 Families Fund 1
Corporate
Bezos Day 1 Families Fund 1
Foundation
CDC 1
Government
California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation 1
Government
California Department of Health Care Services 1
Government
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1
Government
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1
Government
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund 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
Culturally Grounded Planning
1
Demonstration Gardens for Education
1
Experiential Learning Through Taiko
1
Family-Equivalent Care Standard
4
Financial Sustainability Support
1
Preventive Digital Maintenance
1
Small-Group Retreat Model
1
Virtual Accessibility Bridge
1
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 3 orgs
Indian Health Service Government
shared by 3 orgs
Medi-Cal Government
shared by 3 orgs
Navajo Nation Government
shared by 3 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Mountain Park Health Center Partner
shared by 2 orgs
NDN Collective Funder
shared by 2 orgs
St. Mary’s Food Bank Partner
shared by 2 orgs
University of Utah Partner
shared by 2 orgs
14R Inc. (Navajo Beef Program) Partner
shared by 1 org
22 Tribal Communities Partner
shared by 1 org
ACLU Partner
shared by 1 org
AHCCCS Government
shared by 1 org
AHCCCS Partner
shared by 1 org
AIHP - American Indian Health Plan Government
shared by 1 org
ALAS 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.

2K
Partner organizations
from 12 orgs
954
Staff
from 7 orgs
11
Countries served
from 2 orgs