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Early Literacy Book Distribution

01 Early Literacy Book Distribution · 20 edit slice
11
orgs
20
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 11 organizations and 20 activities — Make Way For Books, PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL, SOLANO FAMILY & CHILDRENS COUNCIL, TENDER LITTLE HEARTS MINI TALES and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (82%) and California (18%). The field's most common shared approach is "Dynamic Collection Curation", run by 1 orgs.
Make Way For Books and PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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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 82% · 9 orgs
California 18% · 2 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 82% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 11

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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 1
Corporate
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit 1
Individuals
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit program 1
Government
Arizona Community Foundation 1
Foundation
Brighthouse Financial 1
Corporate
Fry's Food Stores 1
Corporate
High Mountain Health 1
Foundation
Jack and Jill organization 1
Foundation
Kiwanis Club of Carefree 1
Foundation
Library of Congress American Prize 1
Foundation
Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) 1
Government
Mountain Village Foundation 1
Corporate
RAISE Foundation 1
Foundation
Schreiber Foods 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
Dynamic Collection Curation
1
Empowerment Through Incentives
3
SDG-Aligned Impact Measurement
3
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.

211LA Partner
shared by 1 org
African American Women’s Giving and Empowerment Circle (AAWGEC) Partner
shared by 1 org
Agape Adoption Agency Partner
shared by 1 org
Albertsons/Safeway Funder
shared by 1 org
All For Kids Partner
shared by 1 org
Amphitheater Schools Partner
shared by 1 org
Antelope Valley Resource Infusion Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona ESA Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona State Daughters of the American Revolution (AZDAR) Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Veterans Home Partner
shared by 1 org
Azura Solution Partner
shared by 1 org
BAM Broadband Partner
shared by 1 org
Be a Bookworm Foundation Partner
shared by 1 org
Best Start Antelope Valley Partner
shared by 1 org
Black Legacy Fund 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.

106K
People served
from 5 orgs
5K
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs
404
Staff
from 2 orgs