Accelerating Innovation in Benefits Access: MyFriendBen’s Vision and Commitment

Since its inception, MyFriendBen has been built alongside our community as a public good for all, using shared open source infrastructure. As we scale nationally, we remain committed to MyFriendBen’s founding principles:

• Open source. All code and aggregate impact data are publicly available, inviting transparency and community-driven improvement.
• Collaborative. Partners not only use MyFriendBen, but contribute innovations and insights back into the core product.
• Innovation accelerator. Building shared open tools with a diverse set of partners will mean that we can all get further, faster.  

Join Us As We Build In The Open For All

We are building cross-sector partnerships, interoperable applications and APIs, and shared open eligibility rules engines. By pooling talent, data and capacity, we can allow the experts on the ground – including community members and frontline staff – to focus on innovations that create excellent experiences for households. 

For example, we worked with partners this year to use MyFriendBen’s open infrastructure to pilot:

• Automated benefit eligibility reports via API with a tax filing system 
• A unified application for four benefits geared toward parents of young children 
• Automated screening at intake by integrating with a navigation center’s scheduling system and CRM

Let’s make the social safety net more accessible for kids and families. Contact us, and let’s get started today.