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Children's Literacy & Book Access

01 Children's Literacy & Book Access · 313 edit slice
63
orgs
281
activities
30
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 63 organizations and 281 activities — FRIENDS OF THE PHOENIX PUBLIC, FRIENDS OF THE PIMA, THE LIBRARY PROJECT, ARIZONA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 8 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% · 63 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 63

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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 Community Foundation 3
Foundation
USDA 2
Government
AVNET 1
Corporate
Allyson Knappenberger – DK Home Loans 1
Corporate
Arizona Cardinals 1
Corporate
Arizona Cardinals Player, Larry Fitzgerald 1
Corporate
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit 1
Individuals
Arizona Charitable Tax Credit program 1
Government
Arizona Commission on the Arts 1
Government
Arizona Department of Health Services 1
Government
Arizona Federal Credit Union 1
Corporate
Arizona Humanities Council 1
Foundation
Barnes & Noble Booksellers: Phoenix Area Stores 1
Corporate
Beck Legacy Group 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
Community-Led Systems Change
30
1
Holistic Youth Development
16
2
Collective Advocacy
12
Music as Transformative Practice
6
Self-Sustaining Revenue via Thrift
14
10
6
Apprenticeship-Based Workforce Development
10
Dignity-Centered Service
6
Experiential Learning Model
4
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.

Arizona State University Partner
shared by 5 orgs
Pima County Public Library Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Rotary International Network
shared by 4 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 4 orgs
Child Crisis Arizona Partner
shared by 3 orgs
Facebook Partner
shared by 3 orgs
American Library Association Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Funder
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Education Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Chasse Building Team Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Freeport McMoRan Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Friends of the Library Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
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.

28.1M
Pounds distributed
from 2 orgs
3.1M
People served
from 19 orgs
2.4M
books distributed
from 5 orgs
45K
Staff
from 4 orgs
8K
Partner organizations
from 15 orgs
4K
Volunteers
from 10 orgs