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Community & Botanical Gardens

01 Community & Botanical Gardens · 432 edit slice
113
orgs
487
activities
35
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 113 organizations and 487 activities — NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED, GREEN VALLEY GARDENERS, Native American food sovereignty, Terra BIRDS and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 26 orgs.
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 100% · 113 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 113

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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.

USDA 7
Government
Bureau of Reclamation 2
Government
First Nations Development Institute 2
Foundation
Thunderbirds Charities 2
Foundation
1% for the Planet 1
Government
APS Foundation 1
Corporate
AZ FLY SHOP 1
Corporate
AbilityOne Program 1
Government
Amazon Smile 1
Corporate
AmazonSmile 1
Corporate
American Forests 1
Foundation
American Heart Association 1
Foundation
Ames Construction, Inc. 1
Corporate
Arizona Community Foundation 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
Community-Led Systems Change
118
1
16
Experiential Connection
37
3
3
Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
34
5
Experiential Learning Model
58
6
8
Holistic Youth Development
17
5
Person-Centered Empowerment
17
5
Dignity-Centered Service
27
Equine-Partnered Healing
8
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.

University of Arizona Partner
shared by 8 orgs
Arizona Game and Fish Department Partner
shared by 4 orgs
City of Tucson Partner
shared by 4 orgs
churches Partner
shared by 4 orgs
AmazonSmile Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Department of Health Services Government
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Community Food Bank Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Desert Botanical Garden Partner
shared by 3 orgs
National Park Service Government
shared by 3 orgs
Phoenix Zoo Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Pima County Government
shared by 3 orgs
Pima County Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Pima County Public Library Partner
shared by 3 orgs
State of Arizona Government
shared by 3 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.

103.2M
Pounds distributed
from 4 orgs
11.2M
People served
from 24 orgs
9.0M
annual revenue
from 5 orgs
4.7M
Meals provided
from 4 orgs
143K
Partner organizations
from 35 orgs
141K
Volunteers
from 10 orgs