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Community Gardens & Urban Agriculture

01 Community Gardens & Urban Agriculture · 192 edit slice
94
orgs
281
activities
29
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 94 organizations and 281 activities — ARIZONA COMMUNITY TREE COUNCIL, TUCSON CITY OF GASTRONOMY, Terra BIRDS, PORTABLE PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (93%) and California (7%). The field's most common shared approach is "Alumni-Driven Continuity", run by 1 orgs.
ARIZONA COMMUNITY TREE COUNCIL and TUCSON CITY OF GASTRONOMY 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 93% · 87 orgs
California 7% · 7 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 93% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 94

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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 10
Government
Arizona Department of Revenue 2
Government
Bureau of Reclamation 2
Government
1% for the Planet 1
Government
APS Foundation 1
Corporate
AZ Impact for Good 1
Foundation
All Star Liveaboards 1
Corporate
Amazon Fresh 1
Corporate
Amazon Smile 1
Corporate
AmazonSmile 1
Corporate
Arizona Community Foundation of Flagstaff 1
Foundation
Arizona Complete Health 1
Corporate
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management 1
Government
Arizona Department of Transportation 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
Alumni-Driven Continuity
1
Committee-Driven Governance
2
Conceptual Learning Through Thematic Units
2
Crowdsourced Quality Assurance
3
Culturally Grounded Planning
1
1
DIY and Pro Support
7
Decentralized Inquiry & Governance
3
Demonstration Gardens for Education
1
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.

University of Arizona Partner
shared by 7 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 6 orgs
USDA Government
shared by 6 orgs
AmazonSmile Partner
shared by 4 orgs
City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Feeding America Network
shared by 4 orgs
Pima Community College Partner
shared by 4 orgs
churches Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 3 orgs
Community Food Bank Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 3 orgs
USDA Funder
shared by 3 orgs
1% for the Planet Network
shared by 2 orgs
ACCION International Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 2 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.

251.7M
Pounds distributed
from 6 orgs
10.6M
People served
from 21 orgs
7.0M
annual revenue
from 4 orgs
141K
Volunteers
from 15 orgs
65K
households served
from 2 orgs
45K
Staff
from 12 orgs