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Professional Development & Certification

01 Professional Development & Certification · 793 edit slice
331
orgs
1,120
activities
136
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 331 organizations and 1,120 activities — NATIONAL ELDER LAW FOUNDATION, THE CERTIFICATION COUNCIL, ACADEMY FOR CERTIFICATION OF VISION, COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION OF and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (89%) and California (11%). The field's most common shared approach is "Client-Choice Model", run by 2 orgs.
NATIONAL ELDER LAW FOUNDATION and THE CERTIFICATION COUNCIL 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 89% · 294 orgs
California 11% · 37 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 89% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 331

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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.

Vitalyst Health Foundation 4
Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation 3
Foundation
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 3
Government
Medi-Cal 3
Government
Members 3
Individuals
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 3
Government
AHCCCS 2
Government
Arizona Department of Education 2
Government
Arizona Department of Health Services 2
Government
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) 2
Government
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona 2
Foundation
Medicare 2
Government
NIH 2
Government
Pfizer 2
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
Client-Choice Model
8
AI-Powered Merit Assessment
2
Advocacy & Designation Promotion
2
Advocacy via Position Statements
3
3
Age-Targeted Vaccination
3
Amicus-Driven Legal Advocacy
4
Antitrust Compliance Enforcement
6
Aptitude-Based Selection
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 19 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 18 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 11 orgs
Northern Arizona University Partner
shared by 11 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Pima Community College Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Banner Health Partner
shared by 6 orgs
Midwestern University Partner
shared by 6 orgs
YourMembership Partner
shared by 6 orgs
CMS Government
shared by 5 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Stanford University Partner
shared by 5 orgs
University of Michigan Partner
shared by 5 orgs
University of Phoenix Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Government
shared by 4 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.

88.0M
annual revenue
from 4 orgs
28.0M
Pounds distributed
from 2 orgs
1.5M
Meals provided
from 2 orgs