Month: February 2016

  • LegalServer’s First Take at an Open Referral Implementation

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    Jeff Hogue
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    Jeff Hogue is the Director of Operations and Community Relations for LegalServer. LegalServer is a configurable web-based platform that dynamically responds to the complex, rapidly changing challenges faced by legal service providers who strive to provide effective advocacy to the most vulnerable among us. In this field of legal services, some of our major challenges…

  • Introducing the Humanitarian Service Data Model

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    Devin Balkind
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    Immediately after a disaster, information managers collect information about who is doing what, and where, and then turn this information into “3W Reports.” While some groups have custom software for collecting this information, the most widespread tool for this work is the spreadsheet. (Indeed, the spreadsheet is still the “lingua franca” of the humanitarian aid community, which…