hkuffel / addresources

ShelterApp

Shelter App Inc., is an all volunteer non-profit organization whose mission is to help homeless and low-income families connect to services using web and mobile app.

Getting Started:

Shelter app currently supports following types and sub-types of the services hence all the scrapped data should fall under one or more of these.

Type	Service Sub Type
FOOD	Food Pantry, Soup Kitchen
SHELTER	Transitional Shelter, Transitional Housing, Emergency Shelter
HEALTH	Medical Clinic, Mental Health Services
RESOURCES	Miscellaneous Services, Support Services, Legal Assistance, Senior Resources
WORK

Scrapping guidelines and rules.

We have to have follow general scraping guilelines mentioned here for all our scrappers. https://github.com/ShelterApp/AddResources/wiki#scraping-guidelines--standards

This repo is created to Add resources by web crawling on below open data platforms

(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V652EVRsCLHznKfHXIHylIREYbmsc3MB?usp=sharing)

1. IRS Links for Data Extraction:

   • https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizations-business-master-file-extract-eo-bmf
   • https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/eo_info.pdf

   *NTEE Codes of Interest: 154 Health clinic 166 Mental health care 380 Low-income housing 381 Low and moderate income housing 566 Job training, counseling, or assistance B70 Libraries D40 Veterinary Services D99 Animal-Related N.E.C. E21 Community Health Systems E30 Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient E32 Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic E50 Rehabilitative Medical Services E60 Health Support Services F32 Community Mental Health Center F40 Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services F42 Rape Victim Services F60 Counseling, Support Groups F99 Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C. I80 Legal Services I83 Public Interest Law, Litigation J22 Vocational Training J99 Employment, Job Related N.E.C. K30 Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs K31 Food Banks, Food Pantries K34 Congregate Meals K36 Meals on Wheels K99 Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition N.E.C. L30 Housing Search Assistance L40 Low-Cost Temporary Housing L41 Homeless, Temporary Shelter For L80 Housing Support Services -- Other L99 Housing, Shelter N.E.C. O20 Youth Centers, Clubs, Multipurpose O31 Big Brothers, Big Sisters O50 Youth Development Programs, Other O99 Youth Development N.E.C. P24 Salvation Army P26 Volunteers of America P30 Children's, Youth Services P40 Family Services P42 Single Parent Agencies, Services P43 Family Violence Shelters, Services P46 Family Counseling P51 Financial Counseling, Money Management P52 Transportation, Free or Subsidized P60 Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash) P72 Half-Way House (Short-Term Residential Care) P81 Senior Centers, Services P82 Developmentally Disabled Centers, Services P84 Ethnic, Immigrant Centers, Services P85 Homeless Persons Centers, Services P86 Blind/Visually Impaired Centers, Services P87 Deaf/Hearing Impaired Centers, Services P99 Human Services - Multipurpose and Other N.E.C.

2. CareerOneStop Link for Employment Assistance Resources:

   • https://www.careeronestop.org/Developers/Data/comprehensive-and-affiliate-american-job-centers.aspx

3. HUD Links:

   • https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/3031/pit-and-hic-data-since-2007/
   • https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/

4. OpenStreetMap Download Links:

   • https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
   • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=social%20facility?uselang=en

5. Washington State Resources form Northwest Hospitality:

   • https://www.nwhospitality.org/welcome-homeless-neighbor
   • https://airtable.com/shrkjUwUgqBU8vI1j/tblsz2z5rrnl9fdvG

6. NYC Homeless Drop-In Centers, After School Programs: Runaway & Homeless Youth, :

   • https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/Directory-Of-Homeless-Drop-In-Centers/bmxf-3rd4
   • https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/DYCD-after-school-programs-Runaway-And-Homeless-Yo/ujsc-un6m

7. Washington DC Homeless Services & Shelters

   • https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/47be87a68e7a4376a3bdbe15d85de398_6
   • https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/87c5e68942304363a4578b30853f385d_25/data?geometry=-77.467%2C38.810%2C-76.540%2C38.997

8. Miami Open 211 (No need to Scrape. Need to call through API directly to the app)

   • http://miami.open.211.developer.adopta.agency/

9. Baltimore Homeless Shelters

   • https://data.baltimorecity.gov/Health/Homeless-Shelters/hyq3-8sxr

10. Public Libraries in US

    • https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/public-libraries-survey

11. Missouri Food Banks:

    • https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/food-pantry-list

12. California Food Resources:

    • https://controllerdata.lacity.org/resource/v2mg-qsxf.json

13. Canada Homeless Shelters:

    • https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7e0189e3-8595-4e62-a4e9-4fed6f265e10

14. BC Food Bank DataSet:

    • https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/food-banks