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Water & Desert Ecology Education Facilities

01 Water & Desert Ecology Education Facilities · 7 edit slice
4
orgs
7
activities
2
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 4 organizations and 7 activities — RIO SALADO FOUNDATION, TUCSON CACTUS AND SUCCULENT SOCIETY, BOYCE THOMPSON SOUTHWESTERN ARBORETUM, PTA Arizona Congress of Parents & Sam Hughes PTA and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Guided Access Model", run by 1 orgs.
RIO SALADO FOUNDATION and TUCSON CACTUS AND SUCCULENT SOCIETY 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 100% · 4 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 4

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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.

Arizona Public Service 1
Corporate
City of Tempe 1
Government
Cox Communications 1
Corporate
Salt River Project 1
Corporate
Vestar 1
Corporate
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 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
Guided Access Model
2
Rescue-Based Sales Scheduling
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.

APS Funder
shared by 1 org
ASU Foundation Partner
shared by 1 org
AZPTA Network
shared by 1 org
Alberto Búrquez Partner
shared by 1 org
American Express Funder
shared by 1 org
American Outdoor Funder
shared by 1 org
Amphi Land Lab Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Cardinals Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Revenue Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Historical Society Museum Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Public Service Funder
shared by 1 org
Arizona Science Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona State Parks Partner
shared by 1 org
Audubon Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
Bert A. Getz Trust Funder
shared by 1 org
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Funder
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