From K–12 to higher education, Esri Canada’s Education programs empower over 240,000 students and educators in Canada to access GIS technology and learning resources. Students use GIS to explore real‑world challenges, gain a richer understanding of nature and society, and develop spatial literacy and critical thinking.
Through Esri’s Nonprofit Program, more than 600 charities, foundations and mission-driven nonprofit organizations in Canada receive low-cost access to GIS technology to help amplify their community impact.
The Community Map of Canada Program brings together governments, Indigenous communities, educational institutions and infrastructure authorities to share authoritative data—creating Canada’s most complete, up‑to‑date web basemap and fostering collaboration.
Through Esri's Disaster Response Program, organizations responding to disasters and crises in Canada can get access to GIS tools, data and support to help them assess, decide and act fast when crisis exceeds their capacity.
Esri Canada provides responsible leadership for a sustainable future. We promote a geographic approach to problem solving—using mapping and analysis to deepen understanding of our world and drive positive change.
Our initiatives combine Esri technology, data and resources to help maximize our collective impact.
Discover how Canadian organizations are using Esri technology to address some of our society’s biggest challenges
More than 30,000 children go missing in Canada every year, but Amber Alerts only go into effect on about 1% of the cases. That’s why Missing Children's Society of Canada (MCSC), in partnership with Esri Canada, created a system using GIS technology to help law enforcement find children faster and safely reunite them with their families.
Maximum City is a Toronto-based urban education company that has received Esri Canada’s Making a Difference Award for transforming youth civic education and engagement using GIS technology. Discover how Maximum City connects young people to their communities, empowering them to shape the future of cities.
Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) CEO Sean Southey celebrates the beauty of Canada and highlights how GIS plays a critical role in advancing wildlife conservation efforts. Esri Canada has partnered with CWF to strengthen nature-based education and environmental stewardship across the country using GIS.
Esri Canada donates one million dollars in in-kind support to help advance wildlife conservation and nature-based learning across Canada.
Homelessness is a very complex issue. Real-time data is required to break down that complexity, adapt to changing conditions and communicate to diverse teams where and how to allocate resources across sites.
The Upper Tantallon wildfire destroyed over 200 structures and displaced over 16,400 people in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in late May and early June 2023. Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) scrambled to assess the devastation—and Esri’s Disaster Response Program supported them in doing so.
The Cree Nation Government is blending Cree knowledge with mapping technology in support of self-determination. Culturally relevant geospatial information helps communities protect what matters and make decisions grounded in lived experience.
To build effective health systems, reduce inequities and ensure long-term sustainability, we must first understand the people these systems are designed to serve. Learn about the work being done on this at the Population Health Analytics Laboratory of University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
The Township of Oro-Medonte is a small community focused on building interactive relationships with their public. They have perfectly mixed together storytelling and geography with their interactive story, ‘Township of Oro-Medonte Heritage StoryMap Tour’.
In 2020, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University built a dashboard to track the spread of COVID-19. That dashboard, and ones like it built by governments, health agencies and other organizations, became essential sources of information during the pandemic – and inspired Lavanya Gopal to pursue a career in GIS.
The Trans Canada Trail is the longest multi-use trail system in the world, connecting Canada’s three coasts. This growing trail system is stewarded by a non-profit organization, Trans Canada Trail, with only about 50 staff. Find out how they operate so leanly with innovative mapping tools that allow them to make confident decisions.
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