Our Partners

A truly wonderful service that is being offered by a very kind group of people making projects possible that would otherwise remain beyond the scope of most organisations expertise – cannot recommend highly enough!

Matthew Cooper, Director
Kyaninga Forest Foundation, November 2025

On behalf of Grevy’s Zebra Trust (GZT), I am so grateful for your support. You have enabled us to package our story from the rangelands program. The story map is not only interactive but also gives more access of our work, and showcase its impact to our audience.

Redempta Njeri Nduguta, Impact and Learning Manager
Grevy’s Zebra Trust, November 2025

Working with GISCorps and receiving training from Adam has been a valuable experience for the Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association (RWCA). His hands-on approach gave our team the confidence and skills to use ArcGIS Online and Survey123 effectively, tools that now play a central role in how we monitor species, organize conservation data from communities, and engage stakeholders. This training has built sustainable geospatial capacity within RWCA, empowering us to better protect Rwanda’s wildlife and wild places.

Deo Ruhagazi, Deputy Director
Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, October 2025

Partnering with GISCorps and having volunteer support from Joe Lemeris has been an incredible benefit for Babanango Game Reserve. Joe’s expertise helped us modernize and future-proof our GIS systems, ensuring that our conservation and operational workflows are both efficient and sustainable. From streamlining animal tracking processes and automating vehicle fault reporting to improving wildlife monitoring and integrating instant WhatsApp alerts, the solutions he implemented have transformed the way our team works on the ground.

Beyond the technology upgrades, Joe also provided invaluable staff training and documentation, empowering our team to confidently manage and maintain our GIS applications well into the future. The support from GISCorps has not only improved our day-to-day operations but also strengthened our long-term capacity to protect biodiversity and advance conservation at BGR. We are deeply grateful for this partnership and the lasting impact it has created.

Bronwyn Dunlop, Research Coordinator
Babanango Game Reserve, September 2025

We would definitely recommend working with GISCorps! There was clear communication throughout, and it was great to see the project come together meeting to meeting. Now that the project is completed, we will be saving time in our day-to-day operations and will be able to share data with external stakeholders in ways we haven’t been able to do previously. The training materials provided allow us to make changes and updates as needed, so we can continue to use these solutions long-term.

Cassie James, Pop Up Markets Coordinator
Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, September 2025

South Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition is extremely grateful for GISCorps for helping to map lactation resources in South Carolina so that families in our state can find help for breastfeeding. We had an extremely rudimentary map previously that was difficulty to update. We now have a map that is searchable by location and are able to add new resources easily. In addition, the dashboard our GISCorps volunteer made has helped us identify the areas in South Carolina that are in the most in need of more lactation resources. This is a project that our small non-profit organization could have never funded by itself. We have been so impressed by the whole process from start to finish.

Sarah Brunson, Chair
South Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition, July 2025

We truly had an amazing experience working with URISA’s GISCorps. The process was collaborative and professional. They worked diligently to match our mission’s requirements with the best candidate, who did an outstanding job. They really have an efficient and well-developed process, and their volunteers are top-notch!

Tari Martin, Co-Chair
URISA Climate and Community Resiliency Committee, October 2024

Our experience with the GISCorps was amazing. The support we received was priceless. Our project was handled with professionalism and and we were provided a high level of expertise. The volunteer that was assigned to us was well equipped to meet our staff at their level and communicate the information being exchanged clearly, ensuring that the skills and concepts were firmly grasped.

Inilek Wilmot, Board Member
Oracabessa Marine Trust, October 2023

GISCorps provided excellent support for Art Forces goal of mapping its murals. The services were priceless and have helped take Art Forces murals to a new level.

Susan Greene, Director
Art Forces, October 2023

GISCorps, specifically volunteer Joe Luchette, have provided an invaluable service to the mission. Your contributions have enhanced our Search and Rescue Mission portal for the better and ultimately saved lives.

This project helps us understand not only the lost person’s behavior from a spatial perspective but also better understand who we are searching for and the best techniques and training we must have. Thank you again, GISCorps!

Monty Bell, Search and Rescue Stats Chair
Mountain Rescue Association, May 2023

GISCorps’ generous program to assist non-profits with their GIS-related projects was managed very professionally, we had very capable expertise from their volunteer, and we are now practiced at the periodic data operations our program uses to communicate our progress to our community.

Barbara Tuset, Co-Director, Audubon at Home Program
Audubon Society of Northern Virginia, May 2023

Our volunteer was extremely helpful and professional. They were not only able to build the app that we requested, but also provided training and a manual for how to update and build the app ourselves thus providing our organization with tools to continue our mission in fighting poverty in the Bay Area.

Emily Chan, Program Analyst
United Way Bay Area, April 2023

GISCorps was an integral partner in supporting, mapping, interpreting, and visualizing our work to help small farmers and food-insecure people during the pandemic and it’s aftermath. Their volunteers knowledge, kindness, and passion lent a tremendous amount to our work. We are extremely grateful for the hard work and professionalism of our GISCorps volunteer.

Nicholas Ellis, Director of Research
Growing the Table, January 2023

GISCorps is delightful to work with – they are wonderfully responsive, capable, and supportive. I would highly recommend collaborating with the team for anyone who is considering it.

Jessica White, GIS Project Specialist
Direct Relief, May 2022

This partnership with GISCorps enabled WMHO’s environmental program to reach new heights. GISCorps’ volunteer helped WMHO harness GIS mapping in order to improve the scope and depth of our research capabilities’, as well as our abilities to analyze and communicate them for the public.

Deborah Boudreau, Education Director
The Ward Melville Heritage Organization, June 2022

GISCorps’ assistance has helped Kisatchie-Delta Regional Planning & Development District re-establish GIS capabilities at a crucial point in time to support economic and disaster recovery after cascading disasters of numerous hurricanes, COVID, and a prior, catastrophic technology incident.

Heather Smoak Urena, Executive Director
Kisatchie-Delta Regional Planning & Development District, May 2022

The people behind GISCorps are very helpful and accommodating. They try to understand the needs of the organization and then find ways on how they can extend their assistance. We have benefited a lot from the outstanding services of GISCorps and their volunteers.

Ian Neil Culallad, Research & Planning Officer
Mountain Province Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Office, March 2022

GISCorps was so helpful for our small non-profit. Both the management structure and the skill level of the volunteer were so helpful for us.

Sieren Ernst, CEO
Climate Cost Project, February 2022

The mission of the Mountain Rescue Association is to provide a central agency through which the efforts and activities of member units may be coordinated to more effectively promote mountain safety education and provide integrated mountain rescue services. The valuable volunteer professional services from the GISCorps provided us the needed expertise to collect geospatial search and rescue mission data from across the country. This data collection tool will provide a sustainable and perpetual open data source for researchers and search and rescue professionals around the world to participate in relevant research that will inevitably save lives. This could not have been accomplished if it wasn’t for the GISCorps and their dedication to the mission.

Monty Bell, Statistics Chair
Mountain Rescue Association, February 2022

GISCorps was an integral part of our ability to get a complex, multi-stakeholder GIS technology project out the door and up and running. Without them, we would have been rudderless. Thank you, GISCorps!

Brett Ioveman, Director of Communications
Mission Blue, January 2022

GIS Corps was a pleasure to work with and extremely professional throughout the entire process. Many thanks to Shoreh, Wincy, Holly and of course our incredible volunteer Jeff, for helping make our project a reality!

Tyler Murphy, Acting IT Lead
BC Marine Trails, October 2021

Our experience with GISCorps volunteer Jeff Scarmazzi was amazing from start to finish. Jeff was able to help us figure out how to put an ESRI multi-layered global map on a react native platform, which has never been done before. Jeff worked diligently to address any issues that came up as we worked through the solution and was excellent at being quick to respond and collaborate with our development team.

Megan Cromp, Director
Key Conservation, July 2021

The GISCorps team was incredibly supportive as we took on a big project to visualize an industry that is challenging to make transparent. Though we ultimately will need to do more work on the data-gathering end to bring it to reality, our volunteer Brett helped me to realize just how much we could demonstrate using GIS, and dream even bigger for our project.

Emily Potoczny, Zero Waste Events Manager
Pennsylvania Resources Council, March 2021

The training offered to us by GISCorps has been exceptional. The level of expertise of our two trainers and two support mentors was amazing and made us feel in really safe hands. The care taken to structure the course to our specific needs made it far more useful than any standard training could hope to be. We really look forward to working more with GISCorps in the future.

Dr. Cleo Graf, Manager, Research & Development Department
Southern African Wildlife College, March 2021

A big Thank You to GISCorps for their help developing a dashboard that will help track animal rescue team activity during disasters. Their leadership was very helpful in developing the project objectives and the assigned volunteer did a good job developing the product. We would highly recommend GISCorps and will be consulting with them in the future on potential projects.

Eric Thompson, Senior Director
ASAR Training and Response, February 2021

The GISCorps volunteers helped us train GOARN partner organizations on how to visualise and analyse real-time COVID-19 case trends and risks with ArcGIS. Thanks to the GISCorps volunteers, we believe the key national responders in Africa, South America, South East Asia, and Europe are now better equipped with location-based approaches to manage complex issues in their pandemic response at the local level. The GISCorps volunteers were always well-prepared, highly engaging, and 100% dedicated. We look forward to engaging GISCorps again for our future global engagement.

Mansuk Daniel Han, Partner Coordination Officer
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), July 2020

GISCorps leaders’ suggestions and coordination were inspiringly professional, efficient, and kind! My project successfully completed within a day from the start. The key to the rapid success was to prepare (this took one weekend) self-explanatory instructions with example figures and actually going through them before sharing with volunteers. I really appreciate everyone who volunteered and helped using their precious time and expertise. This wasn’t just about getting the job done but also building a sense of the power of the community!

Sang-Ho Yun, ARIA Disaster Response Lead
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, June 2020

My experience partnering with GISCorps was very timely. Our agricultural based project needed to expand. Their process of matching their volunteer members with our project gave our non-profit an opportunity to learn of and to explore real-world, practical uses of GIS. While the technical aspects were challenging, our project collaboration with GISCorps extended our capacity and focus on public data to analyze and present data geographically. A financial benefit resulted in us developing relations with local GIS experts that will continue to work with us into the future.

Kenneth Wyrick, Board President
WE CAN Foundation, May 2020

Our nonprofit organization was excited about a new GIS project we were starting, but with limited technology personnel resources we were worried about successfully implementing the components in time to capture the motivation of novice data volunteers. With the support of GISCorps, we were able to work with a highly experienced GIS professional to increase the efficiency of the project, improve the interface design, and complete testing so that our new local GIS data volunteers would enjoy a successful first experience in using GIS.

Robin Patton, Founder
One Shared Story – Fluvanna History Hub, April 2020

The Texas Justice Initiative maintains a data portal to provide criminal justice data to the public, a service we’ve provided since 2018. We’ve heard from our users that they would like to see our data visually represented on a map, so they could compare geographic areas and occurrences or frequencies of occurrences in different areas. Since we rely on volunteers to build our other data processing and analysis tools, I thought it was fantastic that GISCorps provides volunteers for mapping projects at nonprofit organizations. GISCorps vetted us and made it so convenient and easy to match with a volunteer interested in working on our project. German was fantastic at maintaining regular communication and ensuring our project stayed on track. We are well on our way to adding maps to our data portal, and for that we are very grateful. Thank you GISCorps and to our incredible volunteer, JP!

Eva Ruth Moravec, Executive Director 
Texas Justice Initiative, January 2020

GISCorps is that rare organization that actually practices what they preach. Their base of GIS experts, team and board members are extremely knowledgeable and hardworking and committed to the social impact mission. The level of commitment to accomplishing project objectives is admirable and inspiring. Especially, when GIS developers are not receiving any monetary compensation! It has been a priceless Godsend to have discovered GISCorps.

Tené Logan, Program Director
Charity Co-Op, October 2019

Sarah did a great job updating our Hunger Heat Map, and she was instrumental in jump starting our GIS efforts which had fallen dormant. She helped us envision how to improve our maps, invested much time creating layers with the latest data, and brainstormed new ideas with us. Using her work as a starting point, our recently hired internal data specialist has now taken over day-to-day GIS work, and our data team will be releasing new maps with the latest data soon. Sarah played a key role in bridging the gap so that our data specialist could hit the ground running and not waste months of time starting from scratch. We are grateful that soon we will be able to release the 2018 maps to the public, and that internally we will be able to compare our outcomes for 2017 versus 2018. This project would have been greatly delayed without Sarah’s expertise and efforts.

Dan Shenk-Evans, Director of IT
Capital Area Food Bank, March 2019

The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history to date.  The fire started on November 8, 2018, in Butte County. After exhibiting extreme fire behavior, an urban firestorm formed in the densely populated foothill town of Paradise, causing 86 civilian fatalities.

Quick and complete building assessments are critical to allow residents and businesses affected by the fire to determine their plans moving forward, whether it means re-entry, rebuilding, or relocating. Because of the rapid development of these emergencies, technical challenges, and multitudes of professional and volunteer organizations, many data points collected by field workers using mobile devices had inaccurate data entered or incomplete documentation. The points needed quality control performed on them post collection.

GISCorps, when called upon, stepped up quickly and proficiently to assess the inaccuracy of these points through many varied methods, then updated the final datasets with correct locations and information. Volunteers worked tirelessly to provide quality control on these data points representing over 19,000 structures assessed as destroyed, damaged, or unaffected. Without assistance from the GISCorps, these collected assessments would not have been checked without a cost to the County in time and resources.

Thank you, GISCorps, for your devotion to helping organizations like ours in these frantic and devastating circumstances in using GIS to help people get the information they need quickly and reliably. We are indebted to you for your services.

Jim Aranguren, GIS Manager
Butte County, California, January 2019

In today’s disaster response world, having the best visualization products helps to improve the situational awareness on the ground and directly improves the delivery of life saving aid and resources.  When we need mapping products we reach out to GISCorps, they respond quickly with experts who seamlessly support our initiatives. Thank you GISCorps.

Cat Graham, Chief Operations Officer
Humanity Road, September 2018

GISCorps volunteers offer a unique and highly sought-after skillset – GIS expertise with a passion for supporting humanitarian goals. The volunteers I have worked with have bolstered the standard of work for the project, offered valuable ideas and solutions, and have collectively contributed to a better end product than we would have had without their assistance.

Tess Palmer, MPH, GIS Analyst
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2018

GISCorps provided us with a volunteer who was not only well-versed with maps and web tools, but was also creative in his design skills. Awesome!

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, volunteer
1947 Partition Archive, August 2014

GISCorps volunteers were instrumental in establishing the Australian Red Cross with a spatial mapping capability to be used during emergencies. The value the GISCorps volunteers brought to the project was proven in the success of the mapping products developed during the 2011 Queensland floods and cyclones.

Tim McInerny, Emergency Services Coordinator
Australian Red Cross, March 2011

I was impressed with how quickly they found us a volunteer, and how rapidly and efficiently the volunteer pulled together exactly what we needed.

Lonna Gordon, Project Manager
New York University Polytechnic Institute,  April, 2009

What I can say is that the work done by GISCorps is very highly appreciated by the actors in the field, both as input to our maps, but also as standalone databases which they include in their various local GIS assessments. Every single volunteer should be proud of the work done and rest assured that the data are being used – and will continue to be used as we move into the reconstruction phase of this disaster.

Einar Bjorgo, Head, Rapid Mapping, Applications and User Relations
UNOSAT, July 2008