Aspen Policy Academy

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Building a Volunteer Marketplace to Meet Medi-Cal Work Requirements

By Ayzit Doydum, Ali Fauci, Christine Garofoli, Michael Joyce, Daniella Kim, and Kevin Mori

San Francisco’s Human Services Agency (SFHSA) expects that 50,000 current California Medi-Cal clients could lose benefits if they fail to meet new community engagement requirements. This project recommends that SFHSA build an online marketplace enabling Medi-Cal clients to find and report volunteer hours to meet new federal work requirements. A centralized “SFVolunteers” page on SF.gov would allow partners to post opportunities, clients to sign up seamlessly, and verified hours to automatically enter the state welfare system.

This project was completed as part of the 2026 Tech Executive Leadership Initiative, a partnership between the Aspen Institute’s Policy Academy and the Tech Talent Project.

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