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Trade Apprenticeship & Certification

01 Trade Apprenticeship & Certification · 258 edit slice
56
orgs
240
activities
20
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 56 organizations and 240 activities — SHEET METAL AND AIR COND TRADES INDUSTRY, ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS, ELECTRIC LEAGUE OF ARIZONA, ARIZONA CHAPTER NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (98%) and California (2%). The field's most common shared approach is "Accountability Through Documentation", run by 1 orgs.
SHEET METAL AND AIR COND TRADES INDUSTRY and ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS 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
Arizona 98% · 55 orgs
California 2% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 98% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 56

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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.

AZAGC PAC 1
Individuals
Ag West Farm Credit 1
Corporate
Arizona Auto Theft Task Force (RATTLERS program) 1
Government
Arizona Department of Education 1
Corporate
California Housing & Community Development (HCD) 1
Government
Dennis Casteel Memorial Golf Tournament sponsors 1
Corporate
Exhibitors 1
Earned
Ford Motor Company 1
Corporate
Freeport-McMoRan Foundation 1
Foundation
Griffin Family Ranch 1
Corporate
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1
Government
International Facility Management Association (IFMA) 1
Corporate
Joseph L. Weir Trust 1
Foundation
Lowe's Services 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
Accountability Through Documentation
3
Accountability-Driven Policy Advocacy
1
Aptitude-Based Selection
4
BIM-Integrated Construction
5
Cost-Efficiency Advocacy
12
5
Data Privacy Compliance
2
Design Education Outreach
3
4
Evidence-Based Environmental Design
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.

OSHA Government
shared by 6 orgs
International Sign Association Network
shared by 4 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 3 orgs
ISA Partner
shared by 3 orgs
International Sign Association Partner
shared by 3 orgs
State of Arizona Government
shared by 3 orgs
YESCO Partner
shared by 3 orgs
ADOT Partner
shared by 2 orgs
AFL-CIO Network
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona 811 Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Builders Alliance Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Transportation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Registrar of Contractors Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Sheet Metal JATC Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Better Business Bureau 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.

1.5M
People served
from 10 orgs
187K
member count
from 4 orgs
3K
Partner organizations
from 21 orgs
15
Staff
from 3 orgs