Open civic infrastructure for the people and places that take care of each other.
Full Harbor builds public-source data, reproducible methods, and shared tools for the organizations that steward water, land, and the corridors between them — rivers, trails, watersheds, waterfronts, and the communities connected to them.
The premise is simple: these places measurably support the health of the people around them, and the organizations doing that work are often sitting on more evidence than they have the capacity to use.
We build that capacity once, in the open, so those closest to the work can use and reuse it.
| Resource | Who it's for | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Harbor Commons | Public, funders, researchers | Open data platform: nonprofit financials, sector benchmarks, and place-based organization maps drawn from primary public filings |
| Corridor research | Watershed, trail, and community organizations | Reproducible, public datasets of the nonprofit ecosystem along a given geographic corridor |
| Extraction & provenance pipelines | Civic-data builders | Open tools for turning public filings and documents into clean, cited, reusable data |
| Place & public-health research | Practitioners, funders | Evidence on how proximity to blue and green space supports community health, assembled as shared, citable method |
Those closest to this work — running programs, staffing access points, stewarding land and water — are often the last to benefit from what they sustain for everyone else, and the least resourced to document it. Full Harbor is built to reduce that friction.
Everything here is meant to be used and reused by those closest to the work: open data, open methods, and open code where appropriate.
Build the method once. Make it usable by those closest to the work.
Public-source means built from public filings and documents, with repository-specific licenses stated plainly. Where a repository mixes code and research outputs, code is typically released under MIT and data or documentation under CC0 1.0. See each repository's README and license files for the exact split.
- 🌐 fullharbor.org — what we build and why
- 🧭 commons.fullharbor.org — the open data platform
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