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Local Food System Development

01 Local Food System Development · 14 edit slice
6
orgs
14
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 6 organizations and 14 activities — LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS, Verde Valley Regional Economic, MOLLEN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY, Tolani Lake Enterprises and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Culturally Grounded Planning", run by 1 orgs.
LOCAL FIRST FOR BUSINESS and Verde Valley Regional Economic 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 100% · 6 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 6

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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.

USDA 2
Government
Arizona Public Service (APS) 1
Corporate
Salt River Project 1
Corporate
Si Charro! 1
Corporate
Southwest Folklife Alliance 1
Foundation
Urban Farm and Bee Oasis 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
Culturally Grounded Planning
2
Demonstration Gardens for Education
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.

Local First Partner
shared by 2 orgs
14R Inc. (Navajo Beef Program) Partner
shared by 1 org
5 Points Farmers Market Partner
shared by 1 org
5 Points Market & Restaurant Partner
shared by 1 org
ADOT Government
shared by 1 org
APS Partner
shared by 1 org
ASU Spatial Analysis Research Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Agave Heritage Festival Partner
shared by 1 org
Amara Resort & Spa Partner
shared by 1 org
American GI Forum Partner
shared by 1 org
Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Commerce Authority Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Farm to School Network Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Public Service (APS) Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Wine Collective 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
Partner organizations
from 3 orgs