Find It youth opportunity locator for program, services, and events introduction to people interested

For Cambridge, Massachusetts, we built Find It Cambridge: https://finditcambridge.org and we are in the process of updating it, https://new.finditcambridge.org

We think it’s very useful and want to help more cities start using it.

For people working to increase opportunities accessible to residents, Find It reduces the time spent doing data entry or answering the same questions, and increases the time available for forging relationships with service providers and connecting people to the best resources for them.

(Getting into the weeds)

Unlike proprietary services, the code powering it belongs to everyone, and we want to train people from each community served in managing, maintaining, and improving it— Find It serves to benefit the community, and should belong to the community.

Find It Program Locator and Event Discovery platform

Find It Cambridge makes it easier for parents and other caring adults to find the amazing array of activities, services, and resources that are available for children, youth and families in Cambridge.

For 2020, the site is scheduled for a major upgrade, and we are making its capabilities available for other cities and towns.

Cities and towns everywhere offer children and other residents myriad programs, events, and places for enriching experiences. These activity opportunities come from various levels and agencies of government operating schools, libraries, parks, and more, and from not-for-profit organizations, civic groups, private educational institutions, and others. However, any given person—say a single parent with three kids—has no way of knowing about all of these opportunities from so many different sources. No software or website can solve this by itself, but an easily searchable directory with built-in reminders and tools to help keep it up to date can make the goal much more achievable.

The Find It philosophy and practice makes youth-oriented activities and programs easily findable through a curated multi-medium directory. Developed with Cambridge, Massachusetts and Leo Burd of Terravoz, with Agaric as primary developers, the site has been successful as a Drupal 7 project. Now, Agaric is upgrading the platform for Cambridge and seeks to bring it to more cities and towns.

Follow development at the main issue queue on GitLab.

If this is of interest to you for your city or region, especially if you work in an afterschool network or are otherwise in the thick of bringing opportunities to children, please get in touch by e-mail, at 1 508 283 3557, or use our contact form!