Category: Blog
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NYC government publishing open data for municipally-contracted service providers
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…
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Building Both Technology and Community to Address Homelessness in San Francisco
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…
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Streetlives NYC: designing with our users
[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…
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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 Alliance of Information and Referral Services) to develop and deploy an open source system for…
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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 … Continue reading →
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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 findings come from a recent report released by the McKinsey Global Institute titled “Jobs lost,…
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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 document gallery.) Continue reading →
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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 resource websites, which are in use in over a dozen states across the country. Welcome,…
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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 read more about this exciting new chapter below: Continue reading →