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Book Distribution & Reading Space Development

01 Book Distribution & Reading Space Development · 93 edit slice
42
orgs
93
activities
8
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 42 organizations and 93 activities — THE LIBRARY PROJECT, FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIX PUBLIC, Books for Classrooms, FRIENDS OF THE SUN CITY LIBRARIES and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (93%) and California (7%). The field's most common shared approach is "Attendee-Centered Design", run by 1 orgs.
THE LIBRARY PROJECT and FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIX PUBLIC 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 93% · 39 orgs
California 7% · 3 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 · 42

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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 Cardinals Player, Larry Fitzgerald 1
Corporate
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit 1
Individuals
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit program 1
Government
Arizona Commission on the Arts 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Arizona Humanities Council 1
Foundation
Beck Legacy Group 1
Corporate
Better World Books 1
Corporate
Center for Jewish Philanthropy 1
Foundation
Community Foundation of Southern Arizona 1
Foundation
Cummins 1
Corporate
Food Forward 1
Corporate
Friends Book Sale 1
Earned
Fry's Community Rewards 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
Attendee-Centered Design
3
Clemency Advocacy
1
Competitive Virtual Coaching
2
Dynamic Collection Curation
2
Equitable Access via First-Come, First-Served
1
Online Catalog Access
1
Organized Categorization
1
Preservation-Led Spiritual Education
2
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.

Make Way for Books Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Supreme Court Partner
shared by 2 orgs
CDC Government
shared by 2 orgs
Casa de los Niños Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Child Crisis Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
First Book Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Freeport McMoRan Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Friends of the Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
GuideStar Network
shared by 2 orgs
Literacy Connects Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Pima County Public Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
12 News Partner
shared by 1 org
1st Bank 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.

39.0M
annual revenue
from 2 orgs
2.4M
books distributed
from 4 orgs
1.6M
People served
from 10 orgs
45K
Staff
from 3 orgs
9K
Partner organizations
from 15 orgs
561
Volunteers
from 5 orgs