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Four ways to leverage GIS for nonprofits

Thousands of nonprofit organisations are making a lasting impact on communities with a geographic approach to planning, operations, and communication.

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Case studies

South Woodford Society

Uniting a community with one shared vision

The resident-led South Woodford Society in northeast London has created an ArcGIS web app that uses interactive maps to collaboratively shape the neighbourhood’s evolution into a green, active, and thriving urban village.
RSPB

Creating healthy peatland habitats

The RSPB in Wales is deploying a suite of ArcGIS tools - such as ArcGIS Pro, Drone2Map, and Field Maps - to meticulously plan and execute peatland restoration across remote landscapes, enabling precise, efficient habitat recovery that supports rare and endangered species.
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust

Creating better paths with better data

Walk Wheel Cycle Trust is using data from LANDCLAN and the Esri Living Atlas, streamed into ArcGIS apps, to enhance planning, delivery, and monitoring of National Cycle Network improvements, supporting its mission to create better paths for everyone.
Rivers Trust

Delivering nature-based solutions to flood risks

The Rivers Trust has established an ArcGIS Hub Premium–powered Natural Flood Management Hub to unite conservation groups, farmers, volunteers, and communities in Britain by providing interactive maps, surveys, and dashboards that accelerate delivery of nature‑based flood solutions.
Scottish Fisheries

Coordinating initiatives to conserve wild salmon

The Scottish Fisheries Coordination Centre, in collaboration with stakeholders, has created the first national record of over 1,300 wild salmon conservation initiatives, using ArcGIS Dashboards and StoryMaps to drive collaboration, share insights, and highlight investment needs across 44 fisheries districts.
Amphibian & Reptile Conservation

Data Collaboration Platform Transforms Charity’s Volunteer Engagement

Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (ARC) uses ArcGIS Hub Premium and intuitive digital tools to empower its volunteer network, enhance species monitoring, and generate insights that inform wildlife research and policy.
National Trust

Caring for the nation’s most special places

For over a decade, the National Trust has used Esri’s ArcGIS system across its organisation to protect historic sites and natural environments, support climate action, and improve access through a wide range of digital tools.
Fauna & Flora

Empowering people to save nature

The international conservation charity Fauna & Flora uses Esri’s ArcGIS system—including ArcGIS Pro, Survey123, web apps, dashboards, and StoryMaps—to understand risks to threatened species, monitor landscape changes, and prioritise interventions across 20 countries with the help of 175 staff worldwide.
Keep Wales Tidy

Transforming annual litter surveys

The environmental charity, Keep Wales Tidy, has transformed its annual litter surveys, saving an estimated 66 days of staff time while enabling 73% more locations to be inspected compared to the old methodology. The new ArcGIS-driven approach also delivers richer data, which is used to monitor and inform environmental policy, as well as clean up public spaces.
Scottish Wildlife Trust

Saving Scotland’s red squirrels with enhanced data processes

The Scottish Wildlife Trust is using Esri’s ArcGIS solutions to help save Scotland’s red squirrels, in a partnership project supported by the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund which is managed by NatureScot. The charity has improved the collection and accessibility of its monitoring data, enabling it to better identify threats and protect endangered species.

Northumberland National Park Authority
Ramblers Scotland
Rivers Trust

Northumberland National Park Authority

Esri UK Customer Success Awards

Northumberland National Park Authority put its geospatial data and ArcGIS tools into the hands of the general public at a major new landscape exhibition. This ground-breaking use of GIS augmented visitors’ interest in the biodiversity and archaeology of the park and gave them a deeper appreciation of how and why the organisation implements vital conservation schemes.

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Esri UK Customer Success Award graphic naming Northumberland National Park Authority as Community Engagement winner, alongside an aerial view of a visitor centre.

Ramblers Scotland

Esri UK Customer Success Awards

Ramblers Scotland has created the nation’s most comprehensive interactive map of walking paths using ArcGIS. Now, hundreds of volunteers throughout Scotland are auditing the condition of these trails using ArcGIS Hub Premium and gathering up-to-date information that the charity can use to encourage more people to discover the joy of walking.

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The Rivers Trust

Esri UK Customer Success Awards

The Rivers Trust is playing a leading role in helping to accelerate the delivery of nature-based solutions to flood risks in Britain. It has built a Natural Flood Management Hub with ArcGIS Hub Premium to enable conservation organisations, community groups, farmers and volunteers to work together more effectively to help protect vulnerable communities.

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ArcGIS Tutorials

There are numerous pathways to build your ArcGIS expertise. For example, tutorials are modular, self-paced training exercises that focus on capabilities and skill levels such as new user, data scientist, or GIS professional. Esri training consultants provide complimentary planning services to identify the options that best meet an organisation's needs and help advance its mission.

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