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Water Policy Advocacy & Planning

01 Water Policy Advocacy & Planning · 46 edit slice
18
orgs
46
activities
5
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 18 organizations and 46 activities — AZ WATER ASSOCIATION, ARIZONA MUNICIPAL WATER USERS, THE SONORAN INSTITUTE, FRIENDS OF THE VERDE RIVER and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (89%) and California (11%). The field's most common shared approach is "Culturally Grounded Planning", run by 1 orgs.
AZ WATER ASSOCIATION and ARIZONA MUNICIPAL WATER USERS 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 89% · 16 orgs
California 11% · 2 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 89% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 18

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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 Department of Transportation 1
Government
Arizona Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) 1
Government
Brent & Becky's Bloomin' Bucks 1
Earned
Bureau of Reclamation 1
Government
EPA Environmental Justice program 1
Government
Flower Power 1
Earned
GroupRaise.com 1
Earned
Pima County, Arizona 1
Government
Sierra Club Foundation 1
Foundation
Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund (WQARF) 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
Culturally Grounded Planning
1
Culturally-Tailored Behavioral Communication
1
Demonstration Gardens for Education
1
Online Certification Access
1
Rigorous Training & Standards
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.

City of Phoenix Partner
shared by 3 orgs
APS Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Water Resources Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Central Arizona Project Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Buckeye Partner
shared by 2 orgs
City of Surprise Partner
shared by 2 orgs
DMB Partner
shared by 2 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
White Tank Mountains Conservancy Partner
shared by 2 orgs
1% for the Planet Network
shared by 1 org
14R Inc. (Navajo Beef Program) Partner
shared by 1 org
A New Leaf Coalition
shared by 1 org
A.S.P.E. Partner
shared by 1 org
ADEQ 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.

5.6M
population served
from 2 orgs
4.4M
People served
from 4 orgs
75K
Volunteers
from 2 orgs
43
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs
23
Countries served
from 2 orgs