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Dark Sky Volunteer Advocacy & Community Engagement

01 Dark Sky Volunteer Advocacy & Community Engagement · 5 edit slice
2
orgs
5
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 2 organizations and 5 activities — THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY, THE IRVIN MARVIN WINER MEMORIAL MOBILE and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Automated Observatory Control", run by 1 orgs.
1 orgs share the "Automated Observatory Control" approach — a legible through-line.
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 100% · 2 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 2

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
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
Automated Observatory Control
1
Market-Based Pricing
1
Seasonal Equipment Shutdown
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.

Alcor System Partner
shared by 1 org
American Astronomical Society Partner
shared by 1 org
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Partner
shared by 1 org
Attilla Danko Partner
shared by 1 org
Boston Gear Partner
shared by 1 org
DarkSky Texas chapter Partner
shared by 1 org
Data Translation, Inc. Partner
shared by 1 org
Fairborn Observatory Partner
shared by 1 org
Friends of MIRA (Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy) Partner
shared by 1 org
International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry Partner
shared by 1 org
International Dark-sky Association Partner
shared by 1 org
International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) Partner
shared by 1 org
MACRO Consortium Partner
shared by 1 org
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Partner
shared by 1 org
National Audubon Society Partner
shared by 1 org
Ohio State University 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.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 THE IRVIN MARVIN WINER MEMORIAL MOBILE AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0