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Delaware Health and Social Services
An Environmental Public Health Tracking Network featuring neighborhood-level community reports for Delaware Health and Social Services.

Education Resource Strategies
A host of sophisticated, highly interactive resource planning tools for school district administrators and consultants.

GRESB
Extensive data collection surveys, analysis, visualizations, and web application framework behind GRESB. Now part of the US Green Building Council.

INREV
Data collection and analysis platform for European non-listed real estate investment vehicles.

Learning Forward
Tools for assessing outcomes of professional development investments, including the Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI), an interactive survey now used by over 200,000 educators.

Reach Out & Read
The MyROR application for managing nationwide member organization access, data collection, and communications.

Starbucks Coffee Company
Supply chain certification system, now covering coffee, cocoa, and manufactured goods.

The Authors Guild
A CMS and custom website creation and hosting application for authors.

US Green Building Council/GBIG
Data collection, analysis, visualization, and web application framework for the Green Building Information Gateway

Verité
Custom data collection, analysis, and reporting platform for labor risks in global electronic manufacturing.

World Cocoa Foundation
Design of a cocoa farm sustainability dashboard. Prototype delivered via Tableau.

World Resources Institute
Water, Peace and Security Global Tool site and interactive map to explore predictions of political conflict originating from water scarcity.

Alameda County Waste Management Authority
Design of working prototype of an interactive environmental policy and performance assessment tool, S-BAR (Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings)

Allegheny County
Supporting an instance of Open Path homeless data warehouse for data analysis and reporting.

Alliance for Independent Motion Media
A custom CMS to feature and promote independent filmmakers and their productions.

American Institute of Architects
A web application to support submissions to Top Ten Green Buildings award program.

Arizona Housing Coalition
An installation of the Open Path homeless data warehouse for integration, reporting, and care coordination needs.

Arizona State University/LeadScape
A large data study and web application to address the disproportionate number of minorities placed in special education programs, especially in subjective categories. HIPAA compliant.

Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Visual design and custom web application for Columbia University's Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.

B Lab
Design of data report for 'benefit corporation' certification.

Bowling Business Strategies
Design of Community Mental Health Center performance metrics and dashboard reports for the State of Indiana.

BP/Paulsboro, New Jersey
A web application giving citizens of Paulsboro, New Jersey a platform to participate in toxic waste cleanup decisions in their community.

Building Green
Web application development to support the evolution of the company from desktop publishing to an internet-based content model.

Center for Effective Philanthropy
Implemented charts, exports, and performance improvements to a custom Rails-based reporting framework,

City of Boston Department of Neighborhood Development
An expansive, open source homeless data warehouse and 'coordinated entry' workflow platform.

City of Springfield, MA, Department of Housing
Managed hosting and support for Open Path, an open source HMIS warehouse and 'coordinated access' workflow platform.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Housing and Community Development
An implementation of Open Path, an open source HMIS data warehouse and care coordination platform.

Commonwealth of Virginia
An implementation of Open Path, an open source HMIS data warehouse and care coordination platform.

Community Action Pioneer Valley
Managed hosting and support for Open Path, an open source HMIS warehouse and 'coordinated access' workflow platform.

Connecticut Associate of Directors of Health
Visualization of regional health data to promote community efforts to address health equity by drawing connections between demographic factors, social conditions, and health outcomes. HIPAA compliant.

CTG Energetics
Collaborated on the design and development of the LEED v4 rating system used for the certification of "green" buildings.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts
A custom CMS, including a framework for handling grant applications, for an organization founded by Jasper Johns and John Cage to funnel proceeds from art sales to fund up and coming artists.

GoNorth
University of Minnesota/GoNorth
A leading application in “Adventure Learning,” engaging K-12 students to learn science by interacting with polar expeditions.

Homeward Virginia
An installation of Open Path to support an innovative 5 CoC data sharing project for care coordination, reporting, and analysis.
Houlton Brand of Maliseet Tribe and Wampanoag Tribe
Houlton Brand of Maliseet Tribe and Wampanoag Tribe
An online survey, with resulting data analysis and visualization, to study patterns of fish consumption.

Housing Forward
An installation of the Open Path homeless data warehouse and coordinated access system for integration, reporting, and care coordination needs.

Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc.
A managed, comprehensive, searchable online inventory of affordable housing projects across Massachusetts to connect people with a place to call home.

Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
Integration and feature updates to the Evidence Compendium, ICER's innovative drug pricing model platform.

ImagineEasy
Green River partner Ben Tucker started BibMe, an online bibliography creation tool, while still in college. For a time it was the most used Google Docs plugin available. Ben subsequently sold the code to ImagineEasy, for whom we still help with software development. To this day, the project has more end users than any other creation in Green River's portfolio.

Inuit Heritage Trust
A custom CMS to support the Nunavut Heritage Network website, including Nunavut language localization.

Kidz Central Station
A custom web application that offers New York City parents a neighborhood-by-neighborhood directory of classes and activities for children.

Kuehn Charitable Foundation
User research and technical feasibility analysis for an online affordable housing inventory covering all of MA. The project continued on under the non-profit Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc.

LightSide Labs
LightSide Labs' concept was to create automated student essay evaluations to support writing instruction. We designed and implemented an interactive user experience on their existing codebase.

Logic Branch Productions/Empirican
Development of software systems for clinical trial support in the pharmaceutical industry.

Make Me Sustainable
An early social network built around innovation in carbon reduction, energy efficiency, and consumer behavior. Subsequently purchased from its original founders.

Measurabl
Creation of on-demand reports and the development of API integrations.

Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness
Open Path HMIS warehouse support and custom state-wide homeless data reporting options.

MIT/getfit
Software to support data collection for 'getfit,' a program originally examining how social networks can influence changes in individuals' health risk related behavior.

National Education Association/KEYS
A National Education Association funded initiative to reposition the role of unions in public education to focus on collaboration, utilizing internet-based tools to bring stakeholders together.

Northeastern University/National Interpreter Education Center
An innovative custom résumé builder that supports things like embedded video designed specifically for sign language interpreters.

NBCUniversal
A database system, designed to spark inspiration and evaluation, tracking environmental initiatives associated with NBC's building and facilities.

New England Youth Theatre
A custom website, and proud sponsor of the organization's Theatre Adventure Program.

Noveda Technologies/Staples and Prudential
Created energy use dashboard analytics for Prudential and Staples. Also created SPARKS, a gamified platform for Staples employees to share and promote energy conservation ideas.

Peabody Essex Museum/ECHO Project
A learning management system designed specifically to create educational resources from Native American artifacts, supporting story-based learning within the framework of national education standards.

The Planning Council
An installation of the Open Path homeless data warehouse, used for data driven performance planning at both system-wide and project-specific levels.

RBC Dain Rauscher
Development of data analysis tools.

Scholastic
A machine learning algorithm utilizing benchmark analysis and "collaborative filtering" to recommend book purchases for specific K-12 classrooms.

SchoolHack Solutions
A platform for proficiency-based personalized learning plans.

SimSchool
The first ever classroom simulation based teacher training application.

Agway/Southern States Cooperative
The redesign and implementation of Agway's Southern States Cooperative website.

Sundance Institute
Design work to update homepage and integrate social media into main festival site.

Tarrant County Homeless Coalition
Managed hosting and support for Open Path, an open source HMIS warehouse and 'coordinated access' workflow platform.

Texas Homeless Network
A state-wide implementation of Open Path, an homeless data warehouse platform for analysis, reporting, and care coordination.

The Population Council/Evidence Project
An information management system to support using scientific evidence to improve family planning policies, programs and practices. Includes performance reporting.

TimeSlips
Design and coding behind a site for collaborative storytelling with people suffering from Alzheimer’s or dementia. The application also provides online training modules for facilitators of the method.

Town of Stratford, Connecticut
An online catalog of properties associated with an EPA Superfund site located within the town.

University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
A custom CMS and member portal, providing conference registration, scholarship application, and ecommerce functions.

University of Minnesota/Educational Theory Into Practice Software (ETIPS)
A case-based learning resource application for training teachers and school leaders.

University of Virginia/Canlead
A professional development system built in collaboration with the Curry School of Education. CANLEAD combines both informal and formal professional development approaches.Funded by U.S. Department of Education.

Vermont Department of Health/Environmental Public Health Tracking Portal evaluation
Performed an evaluation of the state's existing Environmental Public Health Tracking Portal application.

Vermont MIDI Project (music-comp.org)
Platform for online music composition instruction for K-12 students. Winning compositions are played by professional musicians from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

What Works for Women and Girls
A resource library that documents evidence for effective HIV interventions to guide donors, policymakers, and program managers in planning effective HIV/AIDS policies and programs for women and girls.

Alonovo
A value-based consumer purchasing application built for a start up company, bringing the concept of socially reponsible investing to individual shoppers.

Bohen Foundation

Brownstone Education
A learning management system incorporating machine learning algorithms to deliver K-12 test preparation via a unique pedagogy.

California Division of the State Architect

Center for Civic Participation
A custom web application to promote voter empowerment and community asset mapping.

Connecticut Deparment of Public Health
Development of a methodology for the topographic visualization of health outcomes and environmental conditions
Coventry Holdings/LaneChange
Coventry Holdings/LaneChange

EcoGlobal
Global Challenge Awards
Global Challenge Awards
Funded by an NSF grant, an online framework for students around the world to collaborate on devising international solutions to global warming.

Green Round Table

Health Risk Consultants
Consultation, data analysis, and data visualizations to support litigation around an environmentally disastrous landfill fire.

Industrial Economics Incorporated
Data investigation of impact of Bouchard oil spill on fish consumption by native American peoples.

Intellidimension
Cofounded by Green River partner Derrish Repchick, Intellidimension was a patented search engine built on top of the world's fastest performing semantic web database.

International Design Center for the Environment
Developed software for The eLCie System, a product life cycle assessment tool.

Kelliher Samets Volk
The web application behind Efficiency Vermont's CFL lightbulb replacement subsidy program, originally targeting sales of one million bulbs in two years.

League of Rural Voters

LeKinkeliba

Metiri Group
A framework to assess and report on the efficacy of education grants.

National Council of Teachers of English
Custom CMS and resource library for the Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse project, targeting school literacy coaches, teachers, administrators, and researchers.

National Institute for Community Innovations
An early semantic web based interactive catalog of online education/classroom learning resources.

Nevada Department of Education
A customized CMS supporting the department's main website.

New Earth
Built Earthster, a software platform to share and analyze sustainability information throughout a supply chain. An open source framework for life cycle assessment (LCA).

Omega Optical
A web based tool to guide buyers in filter selection for one of the world's leading lens manufacturers. (They fixed the Hubble Telescope! But we didn't help with that, unfortunately.)

OneReport
Front-end javascript development to support and improve existing application codebase.

Putney Student Travel
A custom web based intranet and extranet for international youth travel programs, including integrations with National Geographic.

ReContext Data Solutions

Sandow
Development work behind product award submission application.

SchoolSpring
Refactoring of code behind a site to post and search for jobs in K-12 education.

Scientific Certification Systems

State of Vermont Department of Education

The Vermont Institutes

The Warrior Connection
Custom CMS work supporting their site.

"This We Know" (Sunlight Foundation funded)
An application providing citizens the ability to search and aggregate data off of Data.gov. An Apps for America Challenge finalist.
Trajectoire/Trajectory
Trajectoire/Trajectory
The website and software behind an ambitious project to create a user-updatable nationwide phone directory in an era before Google Places.

University of Alabama Birmingham/Launch Card-PEPE

University of Colorado/National Institute of Urban School Improvement

University of Iowa/Raices Project

US Department of Energy

State of Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR)

Yorkville Sports Association (YSA)
A system that uses “simulated annealing” to optimize scheduling of sporting events to best utilize available venues while making sure all necessary games of the season can take place without conflict.