The Practising Law Institute is offering a free one-hour briefing via webcast entitled How to Use Maps to Support Your Work with Low-Income Communities on March 24, 2016 at 1:00 pm Eastern.

Please join Robert Hammond and Jay Ackley from Legal Services NYC as they demonstrate how user-friendly online mapping software can support the goals of legal services providers work with low-income communities.

Relying on New York City as a case study, they will provide examples of how software, such as ArcGIS and Mango Maps, can be used in conjunction with publicly available data to create compelling visual evidence, improve advocacy efforts, and serve as useful resources to aid various nonprofit goals including fundraising and communication efforts. Participants will learn tools and tips to begin exploring how maps can support their own work. 

Topics to be addressed include: 

• An overview of the importance and potential of maps in legal services work;
• Examples of how Legal Services NYC has used maps in nuisance complaints, housing violations, language access, advocacy, and   grant reporting;
• Different tools available for mapping; and 
• Data sources to support mapping

This program has been approved for one hour of substantive Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education credit. PLI’s live one-hour briefings qualify as “distance learning” credit. Attorneys are limited to 6 credits of distance learning per reporting period.

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