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Major Collegiate & Professional Sporting Events

01 Major Collegiate & Professional Sporting Events · 19 edit slice
5
orgs
19
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 5 organizations and 19 activities — THE ARIZONA SPORTS FOUNDATION, PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES ASSOCIATION, PHOENIX FINAL FOUR LOCAL ORGANIZING, MENLO COLLEGE and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (60%) and California (40%). The field's most common shared approach is "Event-Led Development", run by 1 orgs.
THE ARIZONA SPORTS FOUNDATION and PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES ASSOCIATION hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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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 60% · 3 orgs
California 40% · 2 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 5

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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.

Alumni 1
Individuals
City of Phoenix 1
Government
FTD 1
Corporate
Honda 1
Corporate
Prudential 1
Corporate
Various corporate sponsors 1
Corporate
individual donors 1
Individuals
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
Event-Led Development
1
Floral Tradition Preservation
4
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.

ESPN Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Valley Metro Partner
shared by 2 orgs
AICCU (Associated Independent Colleges of California) Coalition
shared by 1 org
Apple Partner
shared by 1 org
Big 12 Conference Partner
shared by 1 org
Big Ten Conference Partner
shared by 1 org
CFA Institute Partner
shared by 1 org
Chase Field Partner
shared by 1 org
Christmas Plus Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Scottsdale Partner
shared by 1 org
CloudBeds Partner
shared by 1 org
College Gear Partner
shared by 1 org
Craft Culinary Concepts Partner
shared by 1 org
DonorsChoose Partner
shared by 1 org
FTD Partner
shared by 1 org
Facebook 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.