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On January 12th, I co-presented two sessions on nonprofit mapping alongside Matt Blair of Humaninet, sponsored by Humaninet, NTEN, TACS, and PDXTech4Good.  Unlike Matt, my slides don't stand alone without me there to narrate, so it took me a little while to get around to annotating them.  :)  You can see Matt's excellent slide presentations on "Examples of Humaninet's 2009 Projects" and "Geo-Usability" at the Humaninet Maps 2.0 website.

Last week, we added a new example to our resource library: the Environmental Defense Fund's interactive mapping application of "dirty" heating oil in New York City on a building-by-building level.  Because this is a great example of a nonprofit mapping application, I asked the EDF's Kira Marchenese to tell us a little bit more about the data sources, mapping tools, and processes that took place to create this project.

I recently interviewed Dan Bassill, president and founder of Tutor/Mentor Connection, a well-respected organization in Chicago that provides extensive mentorship-related resources as well as an online community for tutor/mentor program educators, facilitators, fundraisers, policymakers, and other interested parties.  Dan has long been a supporter of the use of GIS and online mapping in a nonprofit/community context, and T/MC was providing interactive online maps years before the "Mashup Explosion" of this decade.

The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) has long since been a hero to me: the dedication, the participatory politics and the clear and open campaigns that are respectfully fought. It seems only fitting to use their fabulous community resource map - created in conjunction with the Open Youth Network - as an example for this article. First, take a look at what it has going for itself: