Nonprofit Lunch and Learn: How to Create Custom layered Google Maps

1165 Franklin Street,South Bend IN 46601

10 November, 2022

Description

This Month's Topic Through Google's "My Maps" feature, you can create customized layers to display important information quickly and easily. This free tool can be used to power up your organization's approach to organizing and displaying spatial data for both internal and external use. Craft maps that show area service providers, client location, or ways for clients to navigate transit. About the Speaker: Hannah Carter, Business Analyst at the City of South Bend Hannah Carter is currently a Business Analyst at the City of South Bend, working with various city departments to analyze data and ensure public transparency. She has a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Masters of Public Administration from Ohio State University. Her prior experience includes serving as an AmeriCorps member at a refugee/asylee services non-profit in the Bay Area, and working with community outreach teams at the City of Columbus Recreation & Parks Department and the Franklin County Office of Child Support. In her free time she likes hanging out with feline friends, either at home with her cat, Snowy, or with the cats at the South Bend Animal Resource Center. Signup Interested nonprofits, or individuals representing a nonprofits, can RSVP to our event by purchasing a (free) ticket for each participant. You will then be asked to answer a few questions that will allow us to learn a bit more about your organization, in order to provide appropriate assistance and guidance to your group and others. Schedule 11:30am: Individuals representing their nonprofits arrive at the TRC, find a table, and enjoy lunch provided. 11:45am: Community expert will showcase a relevant challenge faced by nonprofits and present the resources and successful strategies leading to data-driven, innovative solutions for the topic of interest. 12:15pm: The remainder of the time will be open for attending nonprofits to examine how the techniques and resources shared can be used within their own organization. If there are particular questions surrounding how data can be used to increase efficiency within you organization, this is a time to receive guidance from enFocus Fellows and community experts! Directions: The Technology Resource Center (Catalyst 2, 1165 Franklin St) is in South Bend's Ignition Park which is a large tech park location on the southwest corner of Lafayette and Sample Streets. When you arrive, please drive to the main parking lot. The event will be in the building marked Catalyst 2 and the best entrance to use will be the left most (Northeast) entrance (marked "Community Entrance").