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Library Friends Group Support

01 Library Friends Group Support · 80 edit slice
18
orgs
80
activities
8
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 18 organizations and 80 activities — FRIENDS OF THE SUN CITY LIBRARIES, FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIX PUBLIC, FRIENDS OF THE CASA GRANDE PUBLIC, FRIENDS OF THE PIMA and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Holistic Youth Development", run by 3 orgs.
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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% · 18 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 18

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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 Cardinals Player, Larry Fitzgerald 1
Corporate
Arizona Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Better World Books 1
Corporate
CORE Construction 1
Corporate
Friends Book Sale 1
Earned
Fry's Community Rewards 1
Corporate
Fry's Food and Drug 1
Corporate
Gila County Library District 1
Foundation
Jim Click 1
Individuals
Lakeshore Learning 1
Corporate
Private donors and members 1
Individuals
SD Crane Builders 1
Corporate
Scottsdale Elks Lodge 1
Corporate
See's Candy 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
Holistic Youth Development
7
2
Self-Sustaining Revenue via Thrift
9
10
6
Art and Music as Therapy
4
1
Community-Led Systems Change
4
1
Low-Overhead Impact Maximization
3
Person-Centered Empowerment
5
6
1
Preservation as Community Memory
2
Shared Experience Building
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.

American Library Association Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Child Crisis Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Phoenix Public Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Pima County Public Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
99Pledges Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Humanities Partner
shared by 1 org
AZ Humanities/AZ Speaks Partner
shared by 1 org
Act One Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
Adobe Mountain School Partner
shared by 1 org
Amado Youth Center Partner
shared by 1 org
American Express Partner
shared by 1 org
Apple Pay Partner
shared by 1 org
Architechnology AZ Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections (ADJC) 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 4 orgs
4K
Partner organizations
from 4 orgs
511
Volunteers
from 4 orgs