Tag: implementation

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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,…

  • 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 →

  • Hacking on Link With Optimizely And Benetech

    Hacking on Link With Optimizely And Benetech

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    Kin Lane
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    Open Referral went to San Francisco on Wednesday August 9th to participate in a social good hack-day at Optimizely. In collaboration with our partner Benetech, Open Referral set up as one of the social good projects that 20+ employees worked on for the day.   Overall, our team was strong in front-end web and mobile…

  • OpenCIOC: Exploring New Models for Sharing and Collaboration

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    Kate Lambacher
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    Across Canada, OpenCIOC project software supports the work of hundreds of diverse community organizations, including community information providers and volunteer centres, local and provincial governments, 211 providers, mental health associations, health support networks/organizations, seniors’ support services, and many others – as well as millions of public users each year. … We’re so excited to now…

  • HelpSteps introduces new open source mobile app

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    Noah Teshu
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    For over ten years, HelpSteps has been helping the people of Greater Boston find the social services they need…. Recently, HelpSteps has been working with the Open Referral initiative. By standardizing the way that social services information is stored and shared, the team has positioned itself to work more closely with related organizations. Perhaps the…

  • LegalServer’s First Take at an Open Referral Implementation

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    Jeff Hogue
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    Jeff Hogue is the Director of Operations and Community Relations for LegalServer. LegalServer is a configurable web-based platform that dynamically responds to the complex, rapidly changing challenges faced by legal service providers who strive to provide effective advocacy to the most vulnerable among us. In this field of legal services, some of our major challenges…