Preparing for the Worst, Hoping for the Best: Data Standards, Superstorm...
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, many residents of New York City were left struggling. Occupy Sandy Relief Effort at St. Matthew St. Luke Episcopal. Photo by Reverend Tom Martinez. Though a broad array...
View ArticleIntroducing the Humanitarian Service Data Model
This post is from Devin Balkind, of Sarapis, the Sahana Foundation, and NYC:Prepared. See Devin’s previous post in Open Referral here. Immediately after a disaster, information managers collect...
View ArticleStone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable
[UPDATE, June 29 2018: Sahana has recently taken this work a couple of steps forward. This week, they published this template to the “AirTable Universe.” Also, they developed a basic front-end service...
View ArticleDelivering Open Referral Solutions with Airtable
In 2018, with a small grant provided by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems to the Sahana Software Foundation, Sarapis developed an Airtable template of a community resource database...
View ArticlePresenting ORServices 3.0: a Complete Laravel-based Open Referral Directory...
[Welcome back, Devin Balkind of Sarapis!] I’m happy to announce that Sarapis is releasing a Laravel-based Open Referral Directory Solution (ORServices) as open source code! This software enables...
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