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Special Needs Family Resource Support

01 Special Needs Family Resource Support · 44 edit slice
14
orgs
44
activities
6
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 14 organizations and 44 activities — SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, GESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES, ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED, ABILITY360 and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Person-Centered Empowerment", run by 8 orgs.
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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 100% · 14 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 14

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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.

Arizona Department of Child Safety 1
Government
Arizona Department of Health Services 1
Government
Bureau of Women’s and Children’s Health, Arizona Department of Health Services 1
Government
Center for Jewish Philanthropy of Greater Phoenix 1
Government
Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation 1
Foundation
Easterseals 1
Corporate
First Things First 1
Government
Medicaid (AHCCCS & DDD) 1
Government
Mercy Care 1
Government
Season for Sharing 1
Foundation
The Abbett Family Foundation 1
Foundation
The Board of Visitors 1
Foundation
Thunderbirds Charities 1
Foundation
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 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
Person-Centered Empowerment
29
Family-Centered, Evidence-Based Integration
12
Holistic Youth Development
13
Peer-Led Capacity Building
9
1
Child-Centered, Relationship-Based Development
9
Neuroaffirming Engagement
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.

Raising Special Kids Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Center for Disability Law Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 2 orgs
Division of Developmental Disabilities Partner
shared by 2 orgs
First Things First Funder
shared by 2 orgs
Mercy Care Partner
shared by 2 orgs
2-1-1 Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
2024 Funders Funder
shared by 1 org
ABILITY 360 Partner
shared by 1 org
ACL National Institute on Disability, IL and Rehab research Government
shared by 1 org
AHCCCS Government
shared by 1 org
AZ DES DDD Government
shared by 1 org
AZ Links Partner
shared by 1 org
AZA United Partner
shared by 1 org
AZCentral Partner
shared by 1 org
AZDES Government
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.

149K
People served
from 3 orgs
855
Staff
from 3 orgs
5
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs