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The ESRI Conservation Program is the non-profit support arm of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). Through our donations, We have helped to create and develop spatial analysis, computer mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) capability among thousands of non-profit organizations and individual projects of all sizes and types worldwide.
NEW: SCGIS 2009 Conference: FINAL AGENDA , Agenda cover , MAP
NEW ECP Grant format : We are finally standardizing on a single web page for grant guidelines and forms, www.conservationgis.org/grant . As it explains, the old email route to get grant forms also remains as a backup.
GIS Conferences: 2009 SCGIS Conference: July 18-21 in Big Bear, CA. Initial conference agenda tracks can be found here and here. Don't miss the International Scholars Page
TECHSOUP Gis Grants Program: ESRI has teamed with TechSoup and TechSoup Stock to make ArcView 9.x and extensions available to U.S. nonprofit organizations. For more information and resources go here.
Techsoup Webinar: Introduction to GIS. This recent webinar focussed on social justice issues. "Before this webinar my organization was torn between using Google Earth and ArcGIS software for data and mapping purposes. As we investigate ArcGIS and learn more about its capabilities we are beginning to realize that it will serve our needs and our customers' need far better."
Data Basin: is a new conservation site allowing non-profit groups to create and manage their own communities for the authorship, management, exchange and sharing of collaborative GIS data.
Climate Change GIS Working Group: Our new "Climate Change GIS" working group involving every aspect of the Institute and our users. We believe that climate change is profoundly cross-sectoral in its impacts and integrative information tools like GIS are going to be critical in its resolution. (Click here for a brief introduction and information about our annual Climate Change conference program).
Conservation Planning textbook: The Craighead Center For Landscape Conservation is a new scientific center using GIS to advance conservation theory and make it more available and applicable to practicioners and land planners worldwide. A new conservation planning textbook co-edited by ESRI is coming in 2010 from ESRI Press.
ESRI TV channel on Youtube has lots of free training videos!
ArcExplorer Build 900 with all new data sharing and presentation functions is coming soon!
American Public Gardens Assn National Grants Program Our national grants program for public gardens and arboreta.
Planet Action : ESRI is a Founding Partner in the new "Planet Action" collaborative begun by SPOT Image to make high resolution sattellite imagery grants up to 2.5m available to local NGO's worldwide for action on climate change impacts in Natural, Geological and Human dimensions. To apply, read the "Planet Action" section of the ESRI Conservation Program Grant form.
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