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From Record-Keeping to Real Intelligence: How CPC Became a Data-Driven Organization
Most nonprofits know they should be doing more with their data. Few actually get there. Here's what it looks like when one does.
Ana Ranković
5 min read
Beyond WhatsApp: The Nonprofit Coordination Gap
How do you coordinate across multiple organizations when services are complimentary, resources are limited, and when needs change faster than your teams can capture, update, and communicate?
Ana Ranković
4 min read
Data-Driven Advocacy: How to Turn Community Need into Decision-Ready Policy
The New York City Department of Transportation asked IDG to recommend where new relief stands should go. To answer that question, IDG partnered with North Arrow to turn a pressing concern into a data-driven plan for action.
Ana Ranković
6 min read
Data-Driven Impact: the Read to Grow Playbook
Over the past year, we’ve had the absolute pleasure of partnering with this brilliant early literacy nonprofit in Connecticut, helping them weave their data, programs, and impact into one powerful story.
Ana Ranković
4 min read
The Nonprofit GIS Lab: How-to link a Google Sheet to ArcGIS Online for live updates
A simple way to create live-updating maps with Google Sheets and ArcGIS. This guide helps nonprofits build and maintain point layer maps.
Charles Grosperrin
4 min read
Bridging the Gap Between Small Nonprofits and Complex GIS
We helped Mazí Housing leverage GIS at low costs by creating a live asylum seekers services map that they can maintain easily on their own.
Charles Grosperrin
3 min read
Spatial Storytelling: the Case for GIS in Nonprofit Fundraising
Nonprofits need better tools for fundraising. We are convinced of the power of GIS to craft better stories and drive donations.
Charles Grosperrin
4 min read
Interactive Annual Reports: Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project
The Shanti Bhavan School has a unique transformative model worth sharing far & wide. Discover their work in their Interactive Annual Report!
Charles Grosperrin
2 min read
2024 in Maps & Milestones 🗺️
As we celebrate a second year filled with maps and impact, we start 2025 with gratitude and a renewed sense of urgency.
Olivia Ildefonso, Ph.D.
2 min read
Collaborative Real-time Maps: New Tools for Activism
Nonprofits can and should use real time mapping technology to gain feedback from partners, collaborators and community members.
Olivia Ildefonso, Ph.D.
3 min read
Interactive Asset Mapping: A New Standard for Education Equity
Asset mapping is a powerful tool for school district administrators & education advocates who want to equalize resources among their schools
Olivia Ildefonso, Ph.D.
3 min read
How a forward-thinking BID leverages geospatial intelligence
We worked with Sunnyside Shines BID to develop a granular intelligence platform to visualize various public dataset and help the BID thrive.
Charles Grosperrin
3 min read
A Decade of New York's Opt-Out Movement
2024 is marking the 10th year of the Opt Out movement, that has seen thousands of 3-8 grades students refusing to take state imposed tests.
Olivia Ildefonso, Ph.D.
8 min read
The Interactive Impact Tour : a fundraising "gamechanger"
A case study on Partnership with Children’s Interactive Impact Tour At North Arrow we are convinced that it is much more powerful to show...
Olivia Ildefonso, Ph.D.
2 min read
Using mapping to simplify the legislative boundaries maze
Maps are great tools for organizers to make sense of complex administrative geographies. A case study with Carroll Gardens Association.
Charles Grosperrin
3 min read
It's 2024, and we're 1 year old!
We want to thank everyone who has been part of 2023, which was an incredible first year for North Arrow.
Charles Grosperrin
2 min read
A New Map for Tackling New York’s Affordable Housing Crisis
We collaborated with ERASE Racism to build the Affordable and Inclusive Housing Tool, designed to empower affordable housing advocacy
Olivia Ildefonso, Ph.D.
2 min read
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