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Used Book Sales for Library Funding

01 Used Book Sales for Library Funding · 31 edit slice
12
orgs
31
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 12 organizations and 31 activities — VNSA-VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT SERVICE, FRIENDS OF THE SUN CITY LIBRARIES, Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public, FRIENDS OF THE PIMA and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (92%) and California (8%). The field's most common shared approach is "Dynamic Collection Curation", run by 1 orgs.
VNSA-VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT SERVICE and FRIENDS OF THE SUN CITY LIBRARIES hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
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 92% · 11 orgs
California 8% · 1 orgs
gap signal →
Arizona accounts for 92% of field activity — the other 49 states combined hold less than half.
who's here

organizations in this field · 12

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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.

Better World Books 1
Corporate
Fry's Community Rewards 1
Corporate
Gila County Library District 1
Foundation
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 1
Government
Mountain Village Foundation 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
3
Equitable Access via First-Come, First-Served
14
Organized Categorization
14
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.

Maricopa County Library District Partner
shared by 2 orgs
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
All Star Kids Partner
shared by 1 org
Amado Youth Center Partner
shared by 1 org
American Express Partner
shared by 1 org
American Library Association Partner
shared by 1 org
Anytown, USA Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Aid to Adoption of Special Kids Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections (ADJC) Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Friends of Foster Children Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona State Fairgrounds Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona 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.

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.

1K
Staff
from 2 orgs
503
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs
81
Volunteers
from 2 orgs