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.
Welcome to Open Referral
Our Mission
Open Referral develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Open Referral is not another software product – it’s a call to action.
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News
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Introducing the upgraded HSDS Transformer
[Let’s welcome to the blog Ananya Iyer, Project Manager of the Blueprint Team at Stevens University! Thanks…
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Busting Silos with the Record Matcher: Here’s How We Leverage AI for Entity Resolution
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve blogged before about the awkward – and often inappropriate – mismatch between the nature…
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Open Referral UK: A New Home, A New Team: ORUK’s Next Phase Under iStandUK
[Welcome Shelley Heckman to the blog, posting from iStandUK (original post here) about the new chapter of…
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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…