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[Our post today is from Adam Bard, founder of the Streetlives project. Welcome, Adam!] What is Streetlives Streetlives is a community built platform that will enable people who are homeless or in poverty to easily find, rate and recommend social…
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Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable
The Sahana Software Foundation makes high quality, open source information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience. We were recently awarded a microgrant by Open Referral (using funding from Stanford’s Digital Impact program, with fiscal sponsorship from the…
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iCarol deploys Open Referral in new Resource API
This post is from Dana Grayson, Communications and Social Media Manager for iCarol. It is adapted from a post on iCarol’s blog. iCarol is a technology solution that supports over 76,000 service providers worldwide – designed especially for 211 and specialty…
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Open Referral Helps Skillful Provide Data Transparency Around Workforce Training Programs
“While there may be enough work to maintain full employment to 2030 under most scenarios, the transitions will be very challenging—matching or even exceeding the scale of shifts out of agriculture and manufacturing we have seen in the past.” These…
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Our 2017 Year in Review
Happy new year! (We’re less than three weeks in, so we can still say that – right??) Open Referral’s 2017 Year in Review is available to read here, and embedded below. (See our previous year-in-review reports here in our public…
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Implementing Open Referral with Drupal and WordPress
Abhijeet Chavan is the Chief Technology Officer of Urban Insight, a digital solutions agency that produces platforms like DLAW, a Drupal-based legal aid resource platform. In this post, he describes the recent adoption of Open Referral for DLAW’s legal aid…
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Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols
Open Referral’s Human Service Data API protocols (HSDA v1.2) are ready for use! Check out our documentation site here. Use our live developer portal here. Finally (for geeks and non-geeks): read the report on this phase of our development. And…
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How Healthify Uses Open Referral Standards to Strengthen Care Coordination
Welcome to Shelby Switzer, the Head of Integrations at Healthify! Healthify is a startup that helps healthcare providers address their patients’ social determinants of health. This has been cross-posted from Healthify’s blog. Data has been at the core of Healthify’s…
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Maryland Open211: Learning a New Language
There is a great scene in the 1984 version of Footloose where the high school “punk” Wren (played by Kevin Bacon) seeks permission from the town council to hold a dance. The local Pastor (played by John Lithgow) reminds Wren,…