mRelief

🎂 Today, mRelief celebrates 10 years of making that vulnerable moment when people ask for help a little bit easier. In the past decade, our digital tools have assisted 1,917,675 households access $1.7 billion in SNAP benefits across the country. We could present a long list of the milestones along our journey, from our Y Combinator days to our recent AI research projects conducted alongside Google.org and the GitLab Foundation, but we would rather share the most influential perspective on our work: what our users have said. mRelief asks each of our users to rate their experience on a scale of 1-10 and to share any feedback on the process. To celebrate our 10th year, we’ve curated a collection of feedback from 10 users who shared a brief snapshot of why our assistance mattered. 💙 #snapmatters #endhunger #foodstamps #civictech #nonprofit #techforgood

💡 Check out this insightful quote from mRelief's own Belinda Rodríguez in Google Cloud's new blog! "I was encouraged to learn that it's possible to develop AI solutions that can handle people with care, that can show up in a consistently helpful way, and that we are able mitigate many of the risks we were concerned about. It really depends on implementation." 📚 Learn more about our work in the responsible AI development space here: https://lnkd.in/gr_i8DUX

If you want to feel inspired and hopeful about the power of AI, check out the 'AI for Social Good' ebook 👉 https://lnkd.in/gh47tM2S. This eBook showcases how 11 out of the 21 #nonprofit organizations that have participated in the *Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI* are harnessing the power of #genAI to tackle #climate action, #education, and #crisisresponse and highlights their current challenges. Congrats to the featured orgs: Tabiya, Materiom, IRC, mRelief, Justicia Lab, World Bank, CareerVillage.org, Full Fact, Opportunity@Work, Beyond 12 and Bayes Impact. Thank you for leading this work, Shanann Klaver Monaghan! Also working on this brilliant project: Ana Vidal Egea, Ph.D., Janelle Kuhlman, Erin Hattersley, Gabriel Doss, Omar Medina. Google Cloud #AIforSocialGood #generativeAI #gemini #googlecloud #google.org #google #GenAI #acceleratedwithgoogle

🔭 As we look to the future, our 2030 vision is clear: we will grow our SNAP enrollment impact, integrate additional benefits into our streamlined processes, and become a leading force in rebuilding the social services infrastructure across the United States. Read more in our latest blog: https://lnkd.in/gxrJ9cYU

Exciting Announcement! We are thrilled to share that our team has received a Digital Innovation Grant from Twilio. This grant enhances our technical capacity and amplifies our impact, allowing us to connect more families to crucial SNAP benefits. Grants like these are crucial in ensuring that technology serves the greater good. To learn more about the grant, check out Twilio's blog post, Digital Innovation Grants for Tech-Driven Impact.

Check out mRelief's AI Chatbot in Google Cloud's latest blog post!

mRelief is proud to have participated in the inaugural Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI! With support from talented engineers and product specialists at Google, we developed a GenAI-powered chatbot designed to empathetically assist clients who choose to apply for SNAP on their own. Last month, we launched a pilot of the chatbot in South Carolina that is trained to help with issues that have prevented clients from applying in the past, as well as answer South Carolina specific policy questions. You can learn more about our project in the GenAI for Social Good ebook: https://lnkd.in/gnyUUZyq

Congratulations to all of our teams who participated in last week’s #Policy2Code Demo Day at #BenCon2024 Thank you to the Digital Benefits Network and Massive Data Institute for organizing this great event! We had 12 Teams showcase demos to test how generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used to translate government policies for U.S. public benefits programs into plain language and software code, including: BDO Code the Dream Georgetown University MITRE mRelief Nava PolicyEngine Ad Hoc LLC Tech2i Inc Starlight Civic Tech Toronto & independent contributors! #RulesasCode #AIforPolicy #GovTech #CivicTech

Thank you to all of the participants of our Policy2Code Demo Day at #BenCon2024, including representatives from BDO Canada, Code the Dream, City of South Bend, MITRE, Nava, Harvard's Growth Lab, Tech2i Inc, Truviq Systems, mRelief, PolicyEngine, Garner Health, Ad Hoc LLC, Invenergy, Georgetown University, and more! The #Policy2Code Prototyping Challenge invited experiments to test how generative AI technology can be used to translate government policies for U.S. public benefits programs into plain language and software code. The Challenge was organized by the the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation and the Massive Data Institute, both based at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  Learn more about the challenge: https://lnkd.in/eYtbv2n4 #RulesAsCode #GovTech #CivicTech

Join our #Policy2Code Demo Day on September 17 from 3pm to 5pm ET during #BenCon2024 hosted by the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and Massive Data Institute! https://lnkd.in/eq8X-k4D Register by Sun 9/15 at 11:45 PM ET Good luck to the participating teams from:  BDO Code the Dream Georgetown University MITRE mRelief Nava PolicyEngine Ad Hoc LLC Tech2i Inc Starlight Civic Tech Toronto & independent contributors! #AIforPolicy #GovTech #CivicTech