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Community Litter and Waste Cleanups

01 Community Litter and Waste Cleanups · 64 edit slice
30
orgs
64
activities
16
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 30 organizations and 64 activities — NATURAL RESTORATIONS, GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, THE SONORAN INSTITUTE, TUCSON CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (97%) and California (3%). The field's most common shared approach is "Centralized Service Negotiation", run by 1 orgs.
NATURAL RESTORATIONS and GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 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 97% · 29 orgs
California 3% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 97% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 30

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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.

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) 2
Government
National Forest Foundation 2
Foundation
1% for the Planet 1
Government
AmeriCorps 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff 1
Foundation
Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona 1
Foundation
Arizona Leveraging Educational Assistance Program (LEAP) 1
Government
Arizona Public Service (APS) 1
Corporate
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. 1
Corporate
Arizona cotton growers 1
Individuals
City of Sedona 1
Corporate
City of Tucson Water Department 1
Government
DEVCO 1
Individuals
Dark Sky Brewery 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
Centralized Service Negotiation
2
Design-Through-Sketching
1
Global Education Access
1
In-Kind Service Exchange
1
Mobile Access Restoration
6
Natural Surface Restoration
6
Phased Construction Planning
1
Public Milestone Accountability
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.

City of Scottsdale Government
shared by 3 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
City of Mesa Government
shared by 2 orgs
Coconino National Forest Partner
shared by 2 orgs
National Forest Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
U.S. Forest Service Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Waste Management Partner
shared by 2 orgs
#PlasticFreePresident campaign Partner
shared by 1 org
1% for the Planet Network
shared by 1 org
21CSC Network
shared by 1 org
21st Century Conservation Service Corps Network
shared by 1 org
4H Partner
shared by 1 org
800th Anniversary Trust Funder
shared by 1 org
91X Partner
shared by 1 org
A & E Recycled Granite, L.L.C. Partner
shared by 1 org
A Place to Call Home Partner
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.

1.1M
Pounds distributed
from 3 orgs
743K
People served
from 9 orgs
17K
Volunteers
from 4 orgs
1K
Staff
from 2 orgs
542
Partner organizations
from 10 orgs