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211s, agencies, nonprofits, coalitions and food banks keep the best lists of local help. Share yours with Front Door. We check it, keep it current, host it in the format 211s use, and show it to people looking for help in every state.

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What you get

  • People find your listings

    Once we add your data, your services show when people search Front Door, on their state's pages and on their county and city pages.

  • We keep it current

    We read your file or feed again on a schedule that fits how often it changes, and check each record before it shows.

  • Free hosting, in HSDS 3.3.1

    We host it for free in the Human Services Data Specification, with an API, and you can download your records back whenever you like.

  • Corrections come back to you

    When someone tells us a phone number or hours are wrong, we send the correction to you as well.

  • See how it is used

    You see how often your records are viewed. We count views, never people.

  • Full access in return

    Sharing data counts as support you give back to the community, so you get full access to every state's data with your own API key.

Your data stays yours

  • It keeps your license and your credit line, and every record names you as its source.
  • A person on our team reads every request. Nothing is added on its own.
  • Ask us to take it down at any time, and we will.

Three ways to share it

  1. Upload a fileA CSV or Excel file, or HSDS JSON, up to 15 MB.
  2. Point us to a feed or pageThe address of a public file, feed or web page we may read.
  3. Connect to your APITell us about your API and we will set it up with you.

Tell us about your data

It takes a few minutes. A person on our team will write back by email.

We write back to this address.

How would you like to share it?

For example: food pantries and meal sites with their hours.

For example: 12 counties in Eastern Washington, or the whole state.

How we name you as the source, like "Data from Yakima Valley 211". We use your organization's name if you leave it empty.

Please do not include Social Security, card or bank numbers, or anyone's private details.

We keep only what you type here and the file you send, and use them to answer you and to credit your data.

What happens next

  1. We read itA person on our team looks at what you sent.
  2. We write backWe may ask about fields, the license or how often to check it.
  3. We add itOnce it fits, your listings show on Front Door and in the open data, with your credit line.