T/MC uses GIS computer technology to guide volunteers, donors and business partners to tutor/mentor locations around Chicago. Awareness of the proximity of these organizations can encourage the participation of potential volunteers.

The Google Maps API offers a flexible, accessible, and affordable alternative to building your own proprietary map server. By using open source scripting tools, you can quickly add a location mapping capability to any web page. Horizon Mapping has created several applications based on this technology for nonprofits who wanted to add the where to the what and how.

Krisoker Saar (Farmers' Voice) is a tiny Farmers' Research Institute in Bangladesh that has evolved from the local community itself. One of their current initiatives involves inventorying the biodiverstiy of the internationally known Sundarban Mangrove Forest in the aftermath of the category 4 Cyclone Sidr in November, 2007.

Wildcliff is a mountain wilderness reserve in the Langeberg mountain range of South Africa's Western Cape. It will be maintained as a nature reserve in perpetuity for purposes of conservation and research. A number of thematic maps were produced that were then assembled into an online map gallery.