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New Zealand nonprofit ArcGIS examples

Examples are useful for understanding patterns, but older case studies should not be treated as current pricing or licensing documentation.

Youth Search and Rescue​

Eagle Technology's YSAR case study describes an independent nonprofit using ArcGIS for pre-planning, hazards, decision points, huts and trails, spatial analysis and field situational awareness in search-and-rescue training.

The transferable pattern for hapū/community GIS is not the rescue technology itself. It is the combination of:

  • field information
  • shared operational maps
  • terrain/context analysis
  • non-technical users consuming the map
  • organisational capability built around a real task

GIS in Conservation​

Eagle's community page describes support for GIS in Conservation (GiC), a registered New Zealand charitable organisation established to help volunteer conservation groups use GIS. It shows another model: a small nonprofit/community group does not always need its own large GIS team if capability and support can be shared.

Federated Farmers​

An Eagle case study describes Federated Farmers using ArcGIS and Survey123 for member surveys, rural telecommunications research, environmental/policy work and response following the Kaikōura earthquake. The article is historical, so use it as an example of workflow rather than current programme pricing.

Sustainable Coastlines​

Eagle/Esri material describes geospatial/storytelling work around beach-litter monitoring in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne. Again, the reusable lesson is connecting field observations to public communication.

What to copy from examples​

Copy the workflow pattern, not the organisation's data model:

question → field/source data → shared map → analysis → audience-specific output

For current eligibility and pricing always return to the Esri Nonprofit Program and Eagle Technology.

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026

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