Category: Blog

  • Open Referral’s 2018 Year in Review

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    Greg Bloom
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    We are pleased to share our Year in Review report for 2018! This was the Open Referral Initiative’s fifth year – and in several ways, 2018 stands as a culmination of all the work we’ve done to date. Continue reading →

  • The Florida Legal Aid Resource Federation: Pilot Report

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    Greg Bloom
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    After two years of development, we’re pleased to share details of our successful Florida Legal Aid Resource Federation pilot! Initiated in 2016 (see our original post here) and completed in 2018, with support from the Legal Services Corporation and the Florida Bar Foundation, the Florida Legal Aid Resource Federation (FLARF) was a complex project with a…

  • Open Referral receives fiscal sponsorship from Aspiration

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    Greg Bloom
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    Happy new year! In celebration, I’m excited to share news about a big milestone in the evolution of the Open Referral Initiative: Open Referral is now fiscally sponsored by Aspiration, a 501c3 organization that provides facilitation and capacity-building support to nonprofit technology initiatives. Continue reading →

  • AIRS Recommends Open Referral’s HSDS for Resource Database Interoperability

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    Clive Jones
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    On behalf of the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS), I am pleased to announce that the AIRS Board has moved to promote the adoption Open Referral’s Human Service Data Specification and API protocols as methods of establishing interoperability among resource databases and associated technologies. Our aim is to create secure, controlled and affordable…

  • Introducing Benetech Service Net

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    Clotilde Vasconi
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    This post originally appeared on the Benetech blog and is reposted with permission. As inequality deepens in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area – in Benetech’s backyard – the crises facing our neighbors in need continue to mount. This is happening despite the efforts of governments, philanthropies, nonprofits, and social good work by technology companies…

  • NYC government publishing open data for municipally-contracted service providers

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    Oonagh Jordan
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    This post comes to us from Oonagh Jordan, a VISTA Fellow with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Opportunity. Oonagh is leading the project management of this initiative. In New York City, community-based organizations that deliver programming at neighborhood sites play a crucial role in administering City-funded programs and services. There is, however, currently…

  • Building Both Technology and Community to Address Homelessness in San Francisco

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    Molly Cohen
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    ShelterTech is currently a 50 member strong all-volunteer non-profit, bringing free wifi and other digital tools to the homeless community of San Francisco. In November 2017, we won a grant from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development to collaborate with the SF Bar Association’s Homeless Advocacy Project to digitize their bi-annual print-only resource…

  • Streetlives NYC: designing with our users

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    Adam Bard
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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 services in NYC. This all-inclusive feedback loop can help stakeholders to collaboratively improve programs and…

  • Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable

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    Devin Balkind
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    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 Alliance of Information and Referral Services) to develop and deploy an open source system for…

  • iCarol deploys Open Referral in new Resource API

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    Dana` Grayson
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    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 … Continue reading →