Established in 2014, The Fund for People in Parks (FPP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the visitor experience in western National Parks. By providing private funding, the Fund supports dynamic and creative park leadership by offering professional consulting…
The Protected Area Management (PAM) initiative is a partnership between the National Geographic Society, Esri, and GISCorps. This initiative seeks to facilitate and support the effective use of Esri’s ArcGIS Solutions for Conservation, which has been made available at no…
Cross Over Community Development (COCD), founded in 2016 in Dayton, Ohio, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on integrating immigrants and refugees into the community. Their mission is to advocate, educate, and facilitate connections for these families to achieve self-sufficiency and…
Inadequate, unaffordable, or non-existent warehouse space in rural counties limits both inbound deliveries of donated food and outbound transport of locally-produced, revenue-generating products. Rural counties make up 63% of the US total, but account for 78% of all counties experiencing…
The Oracabessa Marine Trust (OMT) is a non-profit partnership between the GoldenEye Foundation and the Oracabessa Fishers Association. The GoldenEye Foundation works towards improving the quality of life of the people within the Oracabessa community in Jamaica. Its goal is to help…
Global MapAid (GMA) is a US & UK based non-profit organization with a passion and vision to create maps for solving development problems. One current project involves the creation of an Artificial Intelligence system to help determine where to put…
GISCorps volunteer Lauren Weaver assisted Warehouses4Good in their mission to improve the logistics of food distribution in rural counties. Warehouses4Good sought support to determine the locations where warehouse space would have the most positive impact on the philanthropic supply chain…
A grassroots volunteer group in South India requested GIS and data analysis support to study the distribution and patterns of noncommunicable diseases in Bangalore (Bengaluru), a fast-growing metropolis and the capital of Karntaka Province. Volunteer Cole White took on this…
Report by Luis Ricardo Rodriguez The understanding of interactions and behaviors between humans and dogs are of long-standing scientific interest. Traditionally, collecting purposeful data on the interactions and behaviors of humans and dogs was difficult and time consuming with limited…
The Mountain Rescue Association (MRA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives through rescue and education. MRA maintains a Mission Data Portal where Search and Rescue teams across the United States and Canada have entered data about their missions…