Category: Blog

  • Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable

    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

    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 →

  • Open Referral Helps Skillful Provide Data Transparency Around Workforce Training Programs

    Open Referral Helps Skillful Provide Data Transparency Around Workforce Training Programs

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    Adam Gillette
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    “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,…

  • Our 2017 Year in Review

    Our 2017 Year in Review

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    Greg Bloom
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    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 →

  • Implementing Open Referral with Drupal and WordPress

    Implementing Open Referral with Drupal and WordPress

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    Abhijeet Chavan
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    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,…

  • Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols

    Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols

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    Greg Bloom
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    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 →

  • How Healthify Uses Open Referral Standards to Strengthen Care Coordination

    How Healthify Uses Open Referral Standards to Strengthen Care Coordination

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    Shelby Switzer
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    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 … Continue reading →

  • Maryland Open211: Learning a New Language

    Maryland Open211: Learning a New Language

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    Josh Pedersen
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    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, the local citizens, and the town council that a dance is fraught with evil and…

  • Socrata announces support of Open Referral for gov data

    Socrata announces support of Open Referral for gov data

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    Stuart Gano
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    This post is from Stuart Gano at Socrata. See our post on Socrata’s blog here.  When Socrata thinks about the future, we want to see government decisions driven by data on a massive scale, across departments and municipalities. And, we … Continue reading →