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Liberal Arts & Critical Thinking Curriculum

01 Liberal Arts & Critical Thinking Curriculum · 5 edit slice
4
orgs
5
activities
1
strategies
CA
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 5 activities — William Jessup University, AVID CENTER, Claremont McKenna College, MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL and others. Activity concentrates in California (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "WICOR Pedagogical Framework", run by 1 orgs.
William Jessup University and AVID CENTER 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
California 100% · 4 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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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.

Federal Student Aid 1
Government
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles 1
Government
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles 1
Foundation
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
WICOR Pedagogical Framework
1
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.

ABC 7 News Partner
shared by 1 org
AVID Center Government
shared by 1 org
AVID Center Partner
shared by 1 org
AVID Excel Partner
shared by 1 org
AVID Path to Schoolwide® Network
shared by 1 org
AVID Summer Institute™ Network
shared by 1 org
AVID Virtual Live™ Network
shared by 1 org
Board of Trustees Government
shared by 1 org
Bon Appetit Cafe Partner
shared by 1 org
CAIS Network
shared by 1 org
CMC Alumni Association Network
shared by 1 org
CMC Parent Network Network
shared by 1 org
Camp Ramah in Wisconsin Partner
shared by 1 org
Claremont Graduate University Partner
shared by 1 org
Crossroads Café Partner
shared by 1 org
Curtis School 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.

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 William Jessup University CA · 2 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 AVID CENTER CA · 1 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 Claremont McKenna College CA · 1 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL CA · 1 · 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.

7K
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs
375
Staff
from 3 orgs