Open Referral – We develop data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.

We envision a world in which everyone has access to — and the ability to use — reliable information about the resources available for people in need.

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Our 2025 Year in Review

Open Referral’s Year in Review for 2025 is out now. You can read through it here (and…
The Resource Record-Matcher: an open source AI-powered directory data collaboration tool

[Welcome Skyler Young of Connect211 back to the blog!] When it comes to human services, comparing apples…
Introducing Open Referral’s Data Collaboration Toolkit

Open Referral’s data exchange standards enable different organizations to share resource directory data among different information systems.…
Video: an introduction to the Human Service Data Specifications

Open Referral’s Technical Committee has several new members who have recently come onboard, so we organized an…