Presentation from NetSquared Vancouver's #Tech4Good Trends event for nonprofits in 2018. https://www.meetup.com/net2van/events/245927359/

1. VR for
Non-Profits

3. Experience the aftermath of a diesel spill near the First Nations community of Bella Bella, B.C.

4. Impossible to Contain
On October 13, 2016, the tug boat Nathan E. Stewart, pushing an empty American
fuel barge from Alaska to Seattle, ran aground near the First Nations community of
Bella Bella.
Narrator and filmmaker Zoe Hopkins brings us to Bella Bella, the site of the spill and
her home community, to experience the aftermath of the spill firsthand.
Published on CBC Docs

5. Feeding the fight at Standing Rock

6. Feeding the fight at Standing Rock
Step into a kitchen at Oceti Sakowin camp where Winona Kasto prepares daily meals for
hundreds of Native Americans and supporters who have mobilized to block the Dakota
Access pipeline.
by Benjamin Norman, Niko Koppel and Kaitlyn Mullin

7. Black Snake

8. Black Snake
Interviews and views of Standing Rock, North Dakota
By Blurred Media

9. combined media

10. combined media
combined media from Dublin, Ireland, has been working with World Vision Ireland,
touring VR movies to communities, allowing people to experience an African child's
world.
The use of Virtual Reality by non-profit organizations is one of the new frontiers of
fundraising, allowing donors to experience realities that are often far away and difficult
to imagine. In turn, these experiences increase awareness, evoke empathy and are likely
to prompt action.

11. BY LINE
Pencils of Promise

12. Pencils of Promise
250 million children worldwide lack basic reading, writing and math skills. International
education nonprofit Pencils of Promise is committed to changing that. Pencils of Promise
builds schools and provides educational programming in Ghana, Guatemala and Laos.
RYOT traveled to Toklokpo, Ghana with Pencils of Promise to step inside a classroom before
and after a school is built, getting a firsthand look at how a quality education can change a
child’s life.

13. The Source - Water

14. The Source - Water
Charity Water worked in a small village in Ethiopia, documenting in VR, a week in the
life of a 13-year-old girl, Selam, and her community as they receive clean and safe
water for the first time.
The amount donated after exhibiting the work greatly exceeded Charity Water’s
expectations.

15. How long can we survive without a safe place to call home?
Four Walls

16. Four Walls
The International Rescue Committee used Virtual Reality to enable guests at their
event experience the world of a refugee camp in Lebanon.
The multimedia news organization NPR reported that Gordon Meyer, director of
marketing for YouVisit, which created the VR experience for the IRC, said: “The goal
ultimately is that when you take the headset off, you have the inspiration to act in real
life”

17. Clouds Over Sidra

18. Clouds Over Sidra
UN’s VR documentary Clouds over Sidra, about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee, was
presented at a 2015 fundraising conference, helping raise $3.8 billion, over 70 percent
more than projected. The documentary also helped UN understand how VR encourages
people to take action.

19. Look Ahead SF
Visualizing sea-level rise and climate solutions

20. Look Ahead SF
Explore potential sea-level rise and responses, and help San Francisco meet its climate
action goals.
Climate Access teamed up with Owl VR to install a series of 3D location based 360
binoculars that give viewers a look at the potential impact of climate change on the
location that they are in.

21. UTurn
Being in Two Worlds at Once: Parallel Stories & Quad Binaural Audio Mix

22. UTurn
A 360-degree video utilizing quad binaural audio that seamlessly blends together two
180-degree hemisphere worlds containing parallel storylines of two different
perspectives at a tech start up.

23. You won’t solve the problem with an air freshener - Dominique Pétrin

24. LINKS
Impossible to Contain
http://bit.ly/2p4AD1a
Feeding the fight at Standing Rock
http://nyti.ms/2ALcXnL
Black Snake
https://vimeo.com/236500638
Pencils of Promise
https://pencilsofpromise.org
Charity Water
https://www.charitywater.org
Evelyn's Story
Oxfam Austalia
https://www.oxfam.org.au/virtualreality/
Rashida Jones - Four Walls
International Rescue Committee
https://www.rescue-uk.org/video/rashida-j
ones-four-walls-vr-teaser
Clouds Over Sidra
UNVR
http://unvr.sdgactioncampaign.org/
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/30/un
ited-nations-vr-social-change/
Look Ahead SF
https://www.lookahead-sf.org/