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Model Railroad Layout Construction & Maintenance

01 Model Railroad Layout Construction & Maintenance · 8 edit slice
3
orgs
8
activities
11
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 3 organizations and 8 activities — Paradise and Pacific Railroad, SUN CITY ORO VALLEY COMMUNITY, WYOMING DIVISION HISTORICAL SOCIETY and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Coordinated Access Scheduling", run by 1 orgs.
Paradise and Pacific Railroad and SUN CITY ORO VALLEY COMMUNITY 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% · 3 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 3

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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.

Verryl Fosnight 1
Individuals
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
Coordinated Access Scheduling
2
Custom Control Systems
2
Design-Through-Sketching
4
Empirical Historical Modeling
2
Historical Simulation Operations
2
In-Kind Service Exchange
4
Phased Construction Planning
4
Phased Development Model
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.

Allen Montgomery Partner
shared by 1 org
An Affair With Trains Partner
shared by 1 org
Bob Field Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Scottsdale Government
shared by 1 org
Del Webb Partner
shared by 1 org
Eagle Wings Partner
shared by 1 org
Friends of the Library Partner
shared by 1 org
GCMR Partner
shared by 1 org
Groups.io, WyoDivOps Partner
shared by 1 org
Institute of Learning in Retirement Partner
shared by 1 org
Jim Bergero Partner
shared by 1 org
Ken Meade Partner
shared by 1 org
Life Fitness Partner
shared by 1 org
Lorne Noyes Partner
shared by 1 org
National Model Railroad Association Network
shared by 1 org
Oro Valley Public Library 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.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 Paradise and Pacific Railroad AZ · 4 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 SUN CITY ORO VALLEY COMMUNITY AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 WYOMING DIVISION HISTORICAL SOCIETY AZ · 2 · shares w/ 0