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01 Local News & Investigative Reporting · 17 edit slice
11
orgs
17
activities
1
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 11 organizations and 17 activities — ARIZONA LOCAL POST, ARIZONA FREEDOM FOUNDATION, ARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY, WESTERN MARICOPA COALITION and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Democracy Defense through Research & Advocacy", run by 1 orgs.
ARIZONA LOCAL POST and ARIZONA FREEDOM FOUNDATION 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% · 11 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 11

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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 Department of Transportation 1
Government
Arnold Ventures 1
Foundation
Google News Initiative 1
Foundation
Inasmuch Foundation 1
Foundation
Report for America 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
Democracy Defense through Research & Advocacy
1
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 Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Amazon Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Community Foundation Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona State University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Grand Canyon University Partner
shared by 2 orgs
Southwest Gas Partner
shared by 2 orgs
University of Arizona Partner
shared by 2 orgs
A New Leaf Coalition
shared by 1 org
APS Coalition
shared by 1 org
AZ Commerce Authority Coalition
shared by 1 org
AZ DOT Government
shared by 1 org
AZ Regents Coalition
shared by 1 org
Abrazo Health Partner
shared by 1 org
Aerostar International, Inc. Partner
shared by 1 org
Agua Fria USD Coalition
shared by 1 org
Agua Fria Union High School District Coalition
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.

603
Partner organizations
from 4 orgs
29
Staff
from 3 orgs