Styleguide

Our styleguide defines why we communicate social service information the way we do, and how to use our approach in your own work. There are several parts to this guide:

Data Principles

These core rules are the guideposts that inform all our content decisions. (Read more…)

Content Guidelines

These guidelines provide general rules for writing content that is approachable, user-friendly, and accessible to people of varying literacy levels and degrees of familiarity with local social service organizations. (Read more…)

Data Structure

This outlines in specific terms how we fit the pieces of content together to create a useful database of social service data. It also details the specific format of each type of content. (Read more…)