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Community Book Clubs & Literary Engagement

01 Community Book Clubs & Literary Engagement · 87 edit slice
31
orgs
87
activities
14
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 31 organizations and 87 activities — Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest, LIFELONG LEARNING AT PEBBLECREEK, FRIENDS OF THE SUN CITY LIBRARIES, VENTANA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FFO and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 5 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% · 31 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 31

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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 Revenue 1
Government
BVO Luxury Keller Williams AZ 1
Corporate
Bashas’/AJ’s 1
Corporate
Better World Books 1
Corporate
Blazin’ M Ranch 1
Corporate
Box Tops for Education 1
Corporate
City of Litchfield Park 1
Government
DLC Resources 1
Corporate
Drug Free Communities Grant 1
Government
Fry's Food Stores 1
Corporate
Jeremy Mueller with State Farm 1
Corporate
John and Pamela Blackford 1
Individuals
Lifetime Windows 1
Corporate
National Endowment for the Arts 1
Government
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
11
Holistic Youth Development
7
Development Through Inclusive Athletics
5
Person-Centered Empowerment
7
Self-Sustaining Revenue via Thrift
7
Community-Funded Enrichment
4
Education for Self-Sufficiency
2
Event-Based Fundraising
3
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.

PayPal Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Bashas’ Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Fry’s Partner
shared by 2 orgs
University of Arizona Poetry Center Partner
shared by 2 orgs
#Thisistucson Partner
shared by 1 org
3M Partner
shared by 1 org
4th Cavalry Band of Fort Lowell Partner
shared by 1 org
A Stepping Stone Partner
shared by 1 org
AJ’s Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Humanities Partner
shared by 1 org
Act One Partner
shared by 1 org
Act One Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
Adobe Mountain School Partner
shared by 1 org
Africa Yoon Partner
shared by 1 org
Agua Fria High School District’s Hilltop School for the Arts and Performing Arts Center 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.

1.3M
People served
from 6 orgs
584
Partner organizations
from 11 orgs
186
Volunteers
from 3 orgs