re: GIS Volunteers for Barack Obama

tutormentor — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:12:40 GMT

It would be great to see leaders like Obama use maps to show the places in the country where we have social, economic and environmental challenges. Such maps, along with consistent leadership, could be used to draw a distribution of volunteers, donors and business leaders to all of the places where help is needed, rather than just those with high profile names and connections.

I've been using GIS maps since 1993, to draw volunteers and donors to tutor/mentor programs operating in high poverty areas of Chicago. We've used donated ESRI software, volunteers, and a small amount of contributions to do this work. Visit the http://tutormentor.blogspot.com to see examples. If you volunteer for Obama, or want to volunteer with my organization, you can use GIS to have a great impact.