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Community Book Clubs & Literary Engagement

01 Community Book Clubs & Literary Engagement · 25 edit slice
14
orgs
25
activities
5
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 14 organizations and 25 activities — GILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, GRAYHAWK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF CHANDLER and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (93%) and California (7%). The field's most common shared approach is "Authentic Storytelling Framework", run by 1 orgs.
GILBERT HISTORICAL SOCIETY and GRAYHAWK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 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 93% · 13 orgs
California 7% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 93% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 14

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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.

BVO Luxury Keller Williams AZ 1
Corporate
DLC Resources 1
Corporate
Drug Free Communities Grant 1
Government
Jeremy Mueller with State Farm 1
Corporate
Lifetime Windows 1
Corporate
PebbleCreek HOA 1
Government
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) 1
Individuals
SRP 1
Corporate
State of Arizona 1
Government
The Arizona Commission On The Arts 1
Government
The Dale Wasserman Foundation 1
Foundation
Virginia P. Piper Foundation 1
Foundation
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
Authentic Storytelling Framework
1
Inclusive Historical Education
1
Literature Bridges Communities
1
Managed Access Programming
1
Online Catalog Access
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.

#Thisistucson Partner
shared by 1 org
4th Cavalry Band of Fort Lowell Partner
shared by 1 org
AEA (Actors Equity Association) Partner
shared by 1 org
Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation & Education Professionals Partner
shared by 1 org
Amber Baca Partner
shared by 1 org
American Alliance of Museums Network
shared by 1 org
American Folk Art Museum Partner
shared by 1 org
American Humanist Association Network
shared by 1 org
American Humanist Association Partner
shared by 1 org
American Red Cross Partner
shared by 1 org
Andrew Xu Partner
shared by 1 org
Apache County Drug Free Alliance Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander for Equity Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Attorney General's Fraud Fighters Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Daily Star Partner
shared by 1 org
Atabey Outdoors 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.

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Partner organizations
from 2 orgs