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01 Specialized Membership Lending Library · 11 edit slice
3
orgs
11
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 3 organizations and 11 activities — ROCKY MOUNTAIN LLAMA & ALPACA ASSOC, ARIZONA ARTIST BLACKSMITH ASSOC, PRESCOTT AREA WOODTURNERS and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Peer-Led Capacity Building", run by 2 orgs.
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% · 3 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 3

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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
Peer-Led Capacity Building
6
Youth Agricultural Engagement
5
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.

AAW - WIT Partner
shared by 1 org
American Association of Woodturners Network
shared by 1 org
Artist Blacksmith Association of North America Network
shared by 1 org
Artist Blacksmith Association of North America Partner
shared by 1 org
Baskin Breast Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Christina Abel Partner
shared by 1 org
Constant Contact Partner
shared by 1 org
Heather Rohlwing Partner
shared by 1 org
ILA Network
shared by 1 org
ISU Extension Office Partner
shared by 1 org
Karen Miller Partner
shared by 1 org
Kathy Stanko Partner
shared by 1 org
Lougene Baird Partner
shared by 1 org
Marilyn Arnold Partner
shared by 1 org
Mary Wickman Partner
shared by 1 org
National 4H Council 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN LLAMA & ALPACA ASSOC AZ · 5 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 ARIZONA ARTIST BLACKSMITH ASSOC AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 PRESCOTT AREA WOODTURNERS INC AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
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.

2
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs