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Child Care Referral Services

01 Child Care Referral Services · 36 edit slice
6
orgs
36
activities
1
strategies
CA
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 6 organizations and 36 activities — CHILD ACTION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, Children's Council of San Francisco, SOLANO FAMILY & CHILDRENS COUNCIL and others. Activity concentrates in California (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Structured Reimbursement Frameworks", run by 1 orgs.
CHILD ACTION and CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES 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% · 6 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 6

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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.

CDSS 1
Government
CDSS-Funded Programs (Stage 2, Stage 3 and CAPP) 1
Government
CalWORKs 1
Government
California Department of Education 1
Government
California Department of Social Services (CDSS) 1
Government
Federal child care funding programs 1
Government
Federal government 1
Government
Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance (DHA) 1
Government
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) 1
Government
State of California 1
Government
USDA 1
Government
USDA Food and Nutrition Service 1
Government
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service 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
Structured Reimbursement Frameworks
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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.

California Department of Education Partner
shared by 2 orgs
BCDI San Francisco Partner
shared by 1 org
Bonita Office Partner
shared by 1 org
CACFP Government
shared by 1 org
CDSS Government
shared by 1 org
Cal-Learn Partner
shared by 1 org
CalFresh Government
shared by 1 org
CalWORKs Government
shared by 1 org
CalWORKs Partner
shared by 1 org
California Community Care Licensing Board (CCL) Government
shared by 1 org
California Department of Social Services Government
shared by 1 org
California Early Care & Education Workforce Registry Partner
shared by 1 org
Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles Partner
shared by 1 org
Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles (CCALA) Partner
shared by 1 org
Child Care Eligibility Specialist (CES) Partner
shared by 1 org
Community Voices program Coalition
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.

80K
People served
from 2 orgs
15K
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs