Looking for good Need / Support matching platform

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Renee Black

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Mar 17, 2020, 4:21:33 PM3/17/20
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Hi DHN. 

I hope you are all ok under the circumstances. Sending love to you all from isolation in Canada. 

I need your help! Do any of you know of any easy to use and hopefully open source platforms out there that could be launched by cities that are purpose built to help match Requests for Support with Offers of Support in order to help people cope with this crisis? 

Thank you! 


 

Renee BlackExecutive Director 

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David Black

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Mar 17, 2020, 5:17:08 PM3/17/20
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Hi Renee, hope you're well.


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Willow Brugh

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Mar 17, 2020, 5:46:16 PM3/17/20
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Simon has been working on simmering like this for the past 4 years and anticipates being ready to ship in the next 48 hours. 

Erin has been thinking about similar things, not sure how far along she is. 

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Renee Black

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Mar 17, 2020, 6:02:15 PM3/17/20
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Awesome, 

Thanks Willow! 

Simon/ Erin - can you send a super high level description of what you are working on and the status when you get a minute. We really don't want to duplicate efforts and we can possibly help if appropriate.

Thank you!  


 

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Tyler Radford

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Mar 18, 2020, 9:49:55 AM3/18/20
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Hi Renee,
https://needslist.co/ is another one.
Best
Tyler

Christiaan Adams

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Mar 19, 2020, 1:32:01 PM3/19/20
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Hi all, 
Another example: https://www.berkeleymutualaid.org/    

I'm not involved with this effort (here in Berkeley, California), but heard that they started with a Google spreadsheet to connect at-risk people in need with volunteers who could help get groceries, pick up prescriptions, etc.... and evolved quickly to the website above.  





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Renee Black

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Mar 19, 2020, 1:35:16 PM3/19/20
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Thank you all! Seems like a good idea to write a post about all these tools. going to see if I can find a writer

Appreciate you sharing! 

 

Renee BlackExecutive Director 

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Heather

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Mar 24, 2020, 3:40:59 PM3/24/20
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Is Ushahidi still a tool for this type of work? 

I"m trying to push FEMA to do some web scraping for all local mutual aid groups on all the platforms - can help indicate current and anticipated needs.   Let me know if you have other ideas for that. 

thanks
Heather Milton
FEMA Interagency Recovery Coordination



Michiko Wolcott

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Mar 24, 2020, 4:10:03 PM3/24/20
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This may be something SWB might be able to do (R and Python programmers). We will need a “client” to engage us though—we don’t self-activate. Copying Cathy and Gary who are also with SWB.

 

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