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Outdoor Safety Education & Preparedness

01 Outdoor Safety Education & Preparedness · 5 edit slice
4
orgs
5
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 5 activities — Cascabel Conservation Association, GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY, GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY, GILA VALLEY HIKING CLUB and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (75%) and California (25%). The field's most common shared approach is "Participant Self-Assessment", run by 1 orgs.
Cascabel Conservation Association and GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY 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 75% · 3 orgs
California 25% · 1 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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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.

Northern Arizona University School of Art + Design 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
Participant Self-Assessment
2
Trail Knowledge & Navigation
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.

National Park Service Government
shared by 2 orgs
National Park Service Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Eastern Arizona College Partner
shared by 1 org
Golden Gate Bridge Government
shared by 1 org
Golden Gate National Recreation Area Government
shared by 1 org
Google Partner
shared by 1 org
Graham County Fairground Partner
shared by 1 org
Graham County Search and Rescue Squad Partner
shared by 1 org
Grand Canyon National Park Government
shared by 1 org
Grand Canyon National Park Partner
shared by 1 org
Hike Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
Mt. Graham Partner
shared by 1 org
National Audubon Society Partner
shared by 1 org
Northern Arizona University School of Art + Design Partner
shared by 1 org
Presidio Trust Partner
shared by 1 org
Tribal communities 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.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 Cascabel Conservation Association AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY CA · 1 · shares w/ 0
  4. #04 GILA VALLEY HIKING CLUB AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
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.

38
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs