Introducing the Nonprofit Program Geonet Space!

[Anonymous User]

Welcome to the Nonprofit Geonet Space –Let’s get started!

Welcome and thanks for joining the Nonprofit Program group onGeoNet! To get started we invite you to first review the group features on the overview page and familiarize yourself with the group info, admins, and GeoNet 101 information in the left column.

• Share your own examples and workflows with the broader nonprofit community
• Blogs/webinars and events from Esri 
• Product pricing and updates for the nonprofit program
• Share questions and issues and get answers from other nonprofit members and Esri staff

As you explore the group, you’ll also find tools to connect and collaborate so we encourage you to use them to share files, create blogs, ask/answer questions and read the latest blog posts and join discussions.

Next, we invite you to post a comment below to say “hello" and introduce yourself and share what you are looking forward to with this group.

We’re excited to connect and collaborate with you and we look forward to seeing your contributions.

[Anonymous User]

Looking forward to working with you all!

[PeterStetson1]

Hi All,

I am a T3G participant from 2009 and 2017. I am currently the co administrator for a bunch of school accounts here in Ri and the state coordinator for the ESRI Mapping competition.

[Anonymous User]

Thanks for joining Peter!

[Anneka_France]

Hi everyone,

I work for The Rivers Trust which is a registered environmental charity in the UK & Ireland, dedicated to protecting and improving river environments for the benefit of people and wildlife. We work at a landscape scale (not just focusing on the river channel) using the Catchment Based Approach to address pollution, plastic and climate change. Data and evidence underpins all of our work and we use Esri technology in a variety of ways to collect and analyse data, as well as to communicate and inform. We are big fans of ArcGIS StoryMaps‌ and ArcGIS Hub‌ especially. 

I'm looking forward to finding out more about how other non-profit organisations are using Esri technology to support their work and hoping there will be opportunities to share knowledge and ideas. Perhaps there might even be a way to share templates in the future? 

[Anonymous User]

Hey Anneka France‌ thanks for introducing yourself! Yes, I think sharing templates is a great use for this space. Here are a few recent updates that make it easier to share information. 

• The ArcGIS Solutions team released a web app - this means you don't need to go into ArcGIS Pro to deploy a solution. 
• The ArcGIS StoryMaps team released the ability to duplicate a StoryMap. This can make it easier for you to have one template you work off for similar stories or projects. 

[Anonymous User]

you can also share the initiative template & solution item that is generated when you click "Convert to template" from the Hub editor. since they're items, you can form groups in ArcGIS Online and share privately or publicly and be searchable from the gallery.

the solution editor in Hub allows you to pull in most common web GIS app types--Dashboards, Survey123 Forms, Webmaps, StoryMaps. It's a bit technical but you can package items and share them https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-hub/constituent-engagement/how-to-create-templates-...

[JovianSackett]

Thank you for the invitation to join.  I look forward to contributing to and benefiting from this resource. 

My name is Jovian Sackett and I am the Director of Geospatial Science for the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).  SELC has primarily been an ArcGIS Desktop user, but over the last five years we has expanded the reach of our services to our staff to harness ArcGIS Online serving applications, in addition to print maps we have always done. 

[ScottKaplan]

Hello everyone, I'm Scott Kaplan. I'm the volunteer Manager for the Civil Air Patrol's GIS Program.

Looking at the categories, I would recommend adding another folder for Disaster Response. There are numerous Non-Profit orgs that support that area, ex. CAP, Red Cross, GISCorps, NAPSG, etc. that use ESRI products and or work with the ESRI Disaster Response Team. It would also allow other organizations that are active in that area, or those who would like to become so, to collaborate as well.

Thanks for the invite 🙂

V/r,

Scott

[JerryChase2]

Thanks for the invite! I am accepting with enthusiasm. I'm looking forward to the opportunities to learn from each other and to collaborate when it is beneficial. I work with a faith based non profit.

Regards,

Jerry Chase

GIS Specialist

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

[MaggieArdito]

Hello,  I'm co-founder and president of a small organization that supports a regional bike trail and advocates for bikeable/walkable/livable places, policies and infrastructure.    Thank you for setting up this area.  As a small organization we appreciate guidance in the understanding the simplest way to get our maps and story maps done, and also how to manage cost.   We also be happy to learn if there are other groups related to our cause.  Thank you.  

[JamesKurbel]

Hello everyone and thanks for the invite Rebecca!  I'm a volunteer for Headwaters Land Conservancy in Northeast Lower Michigan, USA.  I'm a retired engineer and self taught in GIS thanks to ESRI Training!  I'm currently working on prioritizing private land parcels for permanent protection.  Hence, I'm most interested in conservation/environmental GIS topics.

Thanks to ESRI for their great support of non-profits!

[Anonymous User]

Hey James! Great to have you, and so impressive to learn you are self-taught. I think you would also probably enjoy being a part of the https://community.esri.com/groups/conservationtech space. Lots of great user stories there. 

[DenisCharbonneau]

Hello All, I'm a Land Steward with Rivers & Lands Conservancy, a non-profit Land Trust based in Riverside, California. We conserve over 2600 acres of wild and open space habitat in Inland Southern California. I have recently obtained my GIS Certificate from a local university, CSUSB. I'm looking forward to sharing and learning conservation/environmental information with all of you. Thanks!

[VictorRamos3]

Hi All,

My name is Victor Ramos and I am a GIS Manager on our Oceans team. Looking forward to collaborating and learning from all of you!

[JackHenderson]

This is Jack Henderson. I currently work for the River Management Society (RMS). We're a national membership-based, non-profit organization dedicated to connecting those who work on and for rivers with their river professional peers, along with providing tools to assist those who manage, protect and recreate on rivers. Our diverse membership includes outfitters and guides, rangers, planners and landscape architects, fluvial geomorphologists, environmental lawyers and policymakers, students, professors, researchers and authors.

I current lead the National River Recreation Database and National Rivers Project.  The National River Recreation Database is a geospatial portfolio of information on Wild & Scenic Rivers, water trails, whitewater rivers, access points and campgrounds within the United States. The National Rivers Project is the website serving to help identify, explore and plan trips on rivers within the database. Together, comprehensive river recreation and management information is provided for paddlers and resource managers. The full project is hosted and maintained through Esri ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online. I'll departing my post on this project at the end of August, but we've hired a new person to coordinate the project, and he's aware of this Esri resource.

I also do a variety of conservation GIS consulting work in western North Carolina, where I live. I'm thankful to be part  of this group! Feel free to reach out any time.

Jack Henderson

jack@river-management.org

703-638-3616

[MaggieArdito]

Hello Jack - nice to make your acquaintance and to learn about the River Management Society and the National Rivers Project - what a wonderful resource and the map provides a fascinating and unique view of our amazing river system.  I'm president of the St Johns River-to-Sea Loop Alliance  - an ambitious  260-mile emerging bike trail that mostly follows the route of the St Johns River from near Titusuville, FL north. We cherish our river and understand the importance of your ambitious project.   I can see it's a work in progress with a lot of related partners and would love to learn more about the process and background.  Of course many of our great cycle paths follow rivers and I'd love a way to connect with the support groups for these trails and to strengthen the connection of trails to rivers.  maggie@river2sealoop.org  

[StacyWoods]

Hi Jovian! We "met" over the pellet mill data in the SE US . Happy to see a familiar name here. I'm looking forward to seeing the convos & connections thru this new nonprofit GIS space!

[StacyWoods]

Hi all! I'm a geostatistician at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). I formerly taught ArcMap/Pro as a TA at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with the Spatial Science for Public Health Center, where I did my PhD training. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone here!

[JovianSackett]

Hi Stacy! I recall our meeting as well. Thanks for reaching out. I too am excited to be more connected to the non-profit GIS community.