Systems that assist individuals in identifying government or community provided benefits and services.
Background reading:
- Startups Are Finally Taking on Food Stamps
Outdated social programs are desperately in need of innovation. A new wave of apps aims to fill that niche. Wired magazine, 2017. - Leveraging Text Messaging to Improve Communications in Safety Net Programs.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2019.
Code for Australia Legal Aid Checker
Legal Aid Checker is an online triaging system, he
Victoria, Australia...
55 Washington Street, Unit 552...
Chalmers
Chalmers can help you find things like: free meals
Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
420 Central Park West, New Yor...
National Domestic Workers Alli...
Single Stop
Single Stop brings together America's most effecti
18F Eligibility Rules Project
Exploring a new way to make eligibility rules easi
United Kingdom...
Kampala, Uganda...
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential t
DoSomething.org, West 21st Str...
NYC Benefits Screening API
Create modern web applications that evaluate house
New York City, NY, USA...
New York City, NY, USA...
India...
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Veterans Affairs Canada Find benefits & services tool
By answering just a few questions, this tool can p
Quebec City, QC, Canada...
Service Net
Benetech Service Net is an open standards data exc
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, US...
Pie For Providers
A digital assistant for your child care business.
Propel, maker of FreshEBT
We build software for low-income Americans who are
Brooklyn, NY, USA...
Communally
Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and
33 Elizabeth Street, Richmond ...
HealthLeads
Health Leads believes that a different kind of hea
Open Referral
We develop data standards and open platforms that
Aunt Bertha
Find social services that serve your area, anywher
Curated by Greg Bloom
Greg Bloom (@greggish) is the founder of Open Referral, a civic technology initiative that is promoting a shift towards open sharing of resource directory data (i.e. information about who does what for whom, across all fields of health, human, and social services). Greg is a cooperative developer and community organizer, with more than a decade of experience in GOTV, class-action labor lawsuits, municipal budget battles, death penalty abolition campaigns, community wireless networks, and even a backyard chicken legalization movement. His writing has been published in In These Times, Civic Quarterly, Personal Democracy Forum, and Code for America’s Beyond Transparency.
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