Month: January 2026
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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 you can browse every Annual Report since 2014 here). This was a really difficult year, and I think it’s important for us to name that difficulty: the rise to power of ethno-nationalist reactionary forces, in the United States…
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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 to apples is harder than you might think. At Connect211, we work with human service referral providers in more than twenty states to “orchestrate” resource data pipelines, and support directory services. In areas where we serve multiple clients, and/or…
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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. This makes it possible for communities to ensure that knowledge about the resources available to people in need can be efficiently managed and effectively accessed across an entire information ecosystem of different technologies. To make this kind of…