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Last night at Benevity Live! in Scottsdale, we celebrated the companies and leaders pushing the boundaries of what purpose-driven work can look like. From bold grantmaking experiments to programs reaching millions of lives, this year's winners set a new bar for all of us.Here are members of the Benevity Community who took home a Goodie this year. Join me in congratulating: The Bestie Award (Under 5,000 Employees)🏆 Winner: Elastic team💙 ​@azka.sohail ​@Stephanie Raiguel ​@ColleenCostello  The BeCause Award🏆 Winner: Sage team💙 ​@breshaep ​@ImpactConnector ​@jadachatoor ​@Paul Worsdale  The Buzz Award🏆 Winner: BMO team💙 ​@AmandaGash  The Community Hero Award🏆 Winner: Enbridge team 💙 ​@Teisha Kaiser ​@kmbowers ​@Leanne Courchesne ​@Wendy  The Moonshot Award 🏆 Winner: Micron Technology team 💙 ​@JZierenberg ​@rfullinwider ​@ksfaylor  The People Power Award (Under 5,000 Employees)🏆 Winner: PagerDuty team 💙 ​@TaymarQuezada ​@kasing The People Power Award (5,000+ Employees)🏆 Winner: RBC team 💙 ​@Carolyn Withrow  ​@nvirgona ​@kellie.donnelly ​@lindsaybezaire ​@mwood ​@julieallen  The Bestie Award (Over 5,000 Employees)🏆 Winner: UPS team The NewB Award🏆 Winner: Lennox team Drop a 💙 to celebrate this year's winners, and share your photos from the night in the comments if you took any! 🏆 Read the full list of finalists 

What's new for Benevity products in June. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new and coming soon across Benevity products this month. Live Product Updates 🚀 Grants ManagementAI Scoring for Grants Advanced (Beta)Grant administrators can now use AI to automatically evaluate submitted applications against customized criteria, replacing hours of manual triage with instant, consistent scoring. For each application, reviewers see a score alongside justifications drawn directly from the applicant's own words, making it easy to validate the reasoning and focus human review where it's needed most. Criteria can be reused across programs or tailored to each one, giving teams flexibility at any scale. Now available in Beta for Grants Advanced clients. Reach out to your Client Success representative to learn more.Dynamic Translations for Benevity GrantsGrant reviewers and administrators can now access dynamic translations across Benevity Grants management interfaces and forms, eliminating the language barriers that slow down global grant committees. Reviewers can assess applications in their preferred language — without copying content into external tools — while administrators can use Bulk AI Translation to translate form versions into multiple languages at once. Exports follow each user's active language setting, so PDFs and CSVs come out clean, with no mixed-language files. Supported languages include Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and more.​​​NPO ExperienceNPO Financial ExperienceBenevity's modernized nonprofit financial tools are now generally available, giving every nonprofit in the ecosystem real-time visibility into incoming funds and transaction-level detail across all their corporate donor relationships. Finance teams can reconcile bank deposits against disbursement data directly in the platform — no spreadsheets required. With Benevity's move to weekly disbursements, this experience ensures nonprofit partners can manage increased volume with confidence.​​​​​​Data & ReportingPII Masking for Data ExportEnterprise clients can now have a separate set of Data Export API credentials that returns all personally identifiable information in a redacted format. This lets engineering teams and third-party contractors safely build and test data integrations without any exposure to real employee or donor data. For organizations in regulated industries — healthcare, insurance, financial services — this removes a key barrier to using the Data Export API.Synthetic Data ExportEmployee Engagement clients can now configure credentials that connect to a synthetic dataset. Contractors and implementation teams get a fully functional environment to build and test against, with zero risk of touching production data or personally identifiable information. ​​​​​ Upcoming Product Releases ⏰ DonateMatch Assurance for AdminsMatch Assurance for Admins is available today in closed Beta, with broader access coming soon. Admins will be able to see at a glance which donation receipts have been AI-verified and which need closer attention — with a clear status on every request and details showing exactly which fields matched. The use of AI is informational only; admins retain full control over every approval decision. The result is faster processing, fewer errors, and a dramatically more efficient matching workflow.​​​​​​Grants ManagementVersaic Standard Dashboards (Beta)A Beta of Versaic Standard Dashboards is coming to Reporting Studio, giving grant administrators a set of pre-built dashboards tracking workflow status, budget utilization, payment schedules, and key metrics like approval rates and decision timelines. All Grants Advanced clients on the new budget module and updated multi-currency feature will have access directly within Reporting Studio. Announcements 🔊Annual UKOGF declaration is underwayThe annual UK Online Giving Foundation (UKOGF) Use of Funds Declaration process is currently underway. Nonprofits must complete this in-platform declaration by Friday, July 31, 2026 to remain eligible on the platform. Please review the UKOGF Compliance - The UK Use of Funds Declaration B-Hive article for more information Coming soon: Benevity for Microsoft TeamsWe're putting the finishing touches on a demo of a native Benevity integration with Microsoft Teams — bringing giving and volunteering directly into the tools employees use every day. Get a first look at Benevity Live, and stay tuned for more details on what's ahead.We're putting the finishing touches on a demo of a native Benevity integration with Microsoft Teams — bringing giving and volunteering directly into the tools employees use every day. Get a first look at Benevity Live, and stay tuned for more details on what's ahead.Scheduled outage: June 6, 2026We’re performing a scheduled maintenance outage to update Benevity products on Saturday, June 6, 2026. This may briefly affect your ability to use our products. Please subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates.We're cancelling the June 24 Quarterly Product Webinar because our latest product updates will all be shared at Benevity Live! this month. Benevity Live! is where we'll be sharing our most up-to-date product roadmap, and we want you there for it. If you can't make it to our in-person event in Arizona, grab a free online pass to join live sessions or watch recordings on your own schedule. 🎟 Register for your free online pass: https://live.benevity.com/event/2026/register 

Some document names are changing — here's the scoop 👀You may notice a few changes to the names of some documents in your giving program — and we want to make sure you're in the loop before they go live on June 23rd, 2026. We're updating terminology across a handful of documents to more accurately reflect how Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) actually work. Specifically, terms like "Account" and "Statement" imply a banking relationship that doesn't exist — and since clarity matters (especially in the world of charitable giving), we're making the language match the reality.Here's what's changing: Before After Account Statement Contribution Summary Cumulative Account Balance Cumulative Contributions Global DAF Account Top Up Invoice Global DAF Donation Request Corporate DAF Account Top Up Invoice Corporate DAF Donation Request Top Up - Invoice # Donation Request # Top Up - Invoice Date Donation Request Date Donation Report - Invoice # Donation Report # Donation Report - Invoice Date Donation Report Date Total Balance Due Total Due  These updates ensure that all documentation accurately reflects the role Benevity has and provides you with clear, compliant visibility into your giving program. View samples of the new documentation for reference:Template Old New Donation Report  Download Download GDAF Donation Request Download Download CDAF Donation Request Download Download Contribution Summary Download Download  Same documents, same info — just names that better reflect what's actually happening with your giving program. If any of these changes affect your internal workflows, now's a great time to flag that with your team.Questions? Drop a support request in the B-Hive and we'll get you sorted.  

2025 was a record-breaking year for corporate giving — $2.7B in donations, 23.8M volunteer hours, 3.2M changemakers, 312,000 nonprofits supported. As 2026 demands a new playbook for purpose-driven business, this momentum matters more than ever.Behind every one of these numbers is a person who chose not to look away. The impact leaders who defended their programs when it would have been easier to stay quiet. The nonprofit leaders who stretched every dollar further than it was ever meant to go. You didn't wait for conditions to be perfect to build something meaningful. These numbers don't happen without our clients, nonprofits and people behind the platform.This is what it looks like when purpose gets infrastructure behind it.📈 Read the report: 2025 Benevity Impact Report

What's new for Benevity products in May. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new and coming soon across Benevity products this month. Live Product Updates 🚀 Grants ManagementAI Application SummariesAccelerate your grant review process with our new AI Application Summaries, designed to transform lengthy applications into instant, actionable insights. By automatically extracting a project’s purpose, funding needs, and expected impact, this feature eliminates the administrative burden of "first-pass" reviews and manual data extraction. Grant reviewers and program administrators can now shift their energy from tedious reading to strategic decision-making and high-value alignment, ensuring community funding reaches its destination faster. Learn more.Modernized Forecast ModuleWe've modernized the Forecasts experience within Grants Advanced, bringing the dashboard up to full feature parity with legacy workflows while delivering a significantly improved interface. Program Administrators can now create forecasts directly from the dashboard, filter by budget group and fiscal year, audit linked payments through a paginated grid, access a centralized Forecast Payments Audit view, export forecast data in bulk or for selected rows, and retain their column and filter preferences across sessions — all within the Budgets & Payments module. Learn more.VolunteeringTurn Volunteer Hours into Verified CRA ImpactWe’re launching a brand-new Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) solution to help financial institutions capture and verify global community service. This feature introduces geocoding to automatically map volunteer hours to low-to-moderate income (LMI) areas, alongside a dedicated review workflow for validating and editing submissions. With a multilingual CRA form and dedicated CRA reporting, you now have a single, streamlined hub to track, review and visualize your CRA impact. Learn more.Improved Sorting for Manage Sign-UpsThe Manage Sign-Ups page will soon display 25 rows per page and support alphabetical sorting by employee’s name, making it faster to navigate large volunteer lists and manage your workload at a glance.Modernized Volunteer Opportunity ExperienceThe modernized Volunteer Opportunity experience will go live for all users on April 14th. This update includes a more modern look and feel, enhanced accessibility, and a consolidated manage menu. Administrators can preview the new experience now via the toggle in their user profile.Employee MobilizationEnhanced Challenges LeaderboardThe Challenges leaderboard can be expanded into a fully page experience, for participants to track their progress, see their community standing and discover challenges their peers have recently completed.Admins will also be able to toggle the leaderboard off entirely, giving programs the flexibility to dial up competition - or collaboration - as needed. Learn more.Custom Categories in ChallengesChallenge managers will be able to create custom categories to align their Challenges with program-specific topics and pillars, beyond the default categories of Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion, and Wellbeing.Help Center TranslationsTo better support our global community, the product how-to articles in the B-hive, End User, and Nonprofit Help Centers have been translated into more supported languages.We have utilized advanced AI translation technology to ensure that our support documentation is accessible to you in your preferred language and there is a seamless experience opening links from the product. This update allows you, your people, and nonprofits to self-serve answers quickly, no matter the language. Upcoming Product Releases ⏰ DonateBenevity for Microsoft TeamsEmployees will soon be able to discover and act on giving and volunteering opportunities directly within Microsoft Teams — without leaving the tools they already use every day. Beta is coming soon; reach out to your Client Success representative if you're interested in participating. Announcements 🔊 Subprocessor update - Dealhub CPQTo support the continued expansion of our platform and global operations, Benevity will soon be appointing Dealhub CPQ as a new subprocessor. Dealhub CPQ has executed a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) inclusive of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and operates under rigorous security and privacy controls in compliance with GDPR.Dealhub CPQ: Automates revenue orchestration and quote-to-contract workflows through an AI-powered CPQ and billing platform (U.S./Israel-based).📍View our up-to-date subprocessor list for details on existing subprocessors.If you have any questions or wish to raise an objection regarding this appointment based on data protection grounds, please contact the Client Success team or privacy@benevity.com within 30 days of this notice.Scheduled outage: June 6, 2026We’re performing a scheduled maintenance outage to update Benevity products on Saturday, June 6, 2026. This may briefly affect your ability to use our products. Please subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates.Join us for the next Quarterly Product Webinar!🗓 Wednesday, June 24⏰ 8am PT / 9am MT / 11am ET🎟 Register here 

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: the 2026 Goodie Awards finalists have been revealed! 🎉 The Goodie Awards recognize organizations setting a new standard for corporate purpose — not just through bold ideas, but through real, measurable impact.💥 Read the full list of finalists💙 A special shoutout to the finalists who are members of the Benevity Community! Join me in congratulating:The BeCause Award:​@breshaep The Community Hero Award:​@Gabriela.lobel ​@Teisha Kaiser The NewB Award:​@caracondodina ​@NBriordy The People Power Award(s):​@kellie.donnelly ​@sheapease ​@JennaProcee ​@TaymarQuezada ​@Sthake ​@Rebecca.Grivette ​@LSN ​@ColleenCostello ​@KbrennanExelixis The Moonshot Award:​@rfullinwider ​@Michelle C 🏅👀 You’ll start to notice two special badges populating on the profiles of community members attending Benevity Live! 2026 and our Goodie finalists:         🏆 We’ll be announcing the winners live on June 4, 2026 at Benevity Live!

What's new for Benevity products in April. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new and coming soon across Benevity products this month. Live Product Updates 🚀 VolunteeringEnhanced Volunteer Sign-up Reminder NotificationsVolunteer sign-up reminder emails now include a mission brief with everything volunteers need for their shift in one view - event details, one-click Add-to-Calendar buttons and direct access to the opportunity within the platform. Learn more.Enhanced Volunteer Opportunity Approval and Decline Notifications"Approved" and "Declined" opportunity emails now include a direct update on your submission with a clear summary of next steps - whether that's starting to sign up volunteers or making a required adjustment. Learn more.Open Beta: Partner Integrations with Goodera and Visit.orgJoint clients of Benevity and Goodera or Visit.org can now manage partner-hosted volunteer events in one place. Event creation and attendee syncing are now automated, eliminating manual data entry and disconnected workflows for admins and employees, while keeping reporting accurate in real time.DonateGive Again PromptsDonors who contributed to a nonprofit within the past year can now re-engage with their favorite causes in one click. By removing friction from the giving process, this feature makes it faster and easier for employees to continue supporting the causes they care about. Employee MobilizationCollective ChallengesFoster a spirit of unity with our new Collective Challenges. This feature allows individual points to pool toward a community-wide goal, prioritizing collaboration over competition. Once the target is hit, you have the flexibility to celebrate that success in the way that best fits your culture - whether by coordinating a corporate donation, a special matching campaign, or a team activity. Learn more.Refreshed Employee Group Leader Planning CalendarThe group leader planning calendar has been redesigned with a cleaner, high-visibility layout, making it easier for community leaders to spot scheduling conflicts and identify engagement gaps, so they can proactively plan programming where it's needed most. Learn more. Grants ManagementOperational InsightsThe new Operational Insights Dashboard offers a centralized view that puts program health and task priorities in one place. It eliminates the need to switch between pages or run reports just to understand what needs attention. Program Administrators can spend less time gathering data and more time acting on it—starting each day with instant clarity on what's urgent and what's on track. Learn more.Program and Risk ManagementFaster global disbursementsWe believe purpose is the future of business, and that future is built on an infrastructure that moves money at the speed of human generosity. That’s why we are accelerating our world-class financial engine, shifting to automated weekly cycles. This update enables your donations to reach nonprofits in as little as 14 days — bridging the gap between a donor's act of goodness and real-world impact. By leveraging our Donor Advised Fund (DAF) infrastructure, you can now deliver funds quickly and at a global scale without compromising the rigorous security, trust and compliance your program depends on.Ready to accelerate your impact? Check your program’s eligibility on the BHive. Non-profit OrganizationsDisbursement Forecasting DashboardThe new Financial Dashboard offers a centralized and intuitive interface that streamlines report navigation, simplifies reconciliation, and introduces powerful forecasting capabilities. It empowers our partners to spend less time on administration and more time focused on their mission, while providing them with the tools to better visualize and substantiate the impact generated through our corporate clients and their supporters.Enhanced Disbursement ReportingSolves the growing complexity of financial reconciliation for nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This feature introduces a unified reporting dashboard and a multi-select option to export data into a single report. This feature not only unblocks strategic global money movement goals but also strengthens NPO trust and reduces the operational burden on Benevity’s support teams.Unified Causes Portal Navigation & Home PageThe Unified Navigation Experience and Portal Home Page represent a critical evolution of the Benevity Causes Portal, transitioning from a fragmented, decade-old legacy system to a modern, cohesive App Shell. This project addresses the technology gap between legacy environments and the new architecture by implementing a centralized vertical navigation sidebar and a revamped landing experience.Transaction SearchThis feature introduces a centralized search interface that lets users query transactions by donor name, email address, company, or transaction ID. By bridging the gap between bank deposits and individual donor activity, Benevity empowers nonprofits to independently reconcile funds, respond to donor inquiries instantly, and reduce administrative friction.Upcoming Product Releases ⏰ Grants ManagementAI Application SummariesAccelerate your grant review process with our new AI Application Summaries, designed to transform lengthy applications into instant, actionable insights. By automatically extracting a project’s purpose, funding needs, and expected impact, this feature eliminates the administrative burden of "first-pass" reviews and manual data extraction. Grant reviewers and program administrators can now shift their energy from tedious reading to strategic decision-making and high-value alignment, ensuring community funding reaches its destination faster. Learn more.Modernized Forecast ModuleWe’ve updated Grants Advanced to support a consistent payment module experience, providing a modern and intuitive interface for managing forecast-based budgeting. This enhancement ensures that program administrators can utilize the same streamlined reconciliation and auditing workflows they rely on, now within our modernized Payments environment. By aligning these tools, we’re providing a more cohesive and efficient experience for tracking and managing your forecast-based payment cycles.VolunteeringTurn Volunteer Hours into Verified CRA ImpactWe’re launching a brand-new Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) solution to help financial institutions capture and verify global community service. This feature introduces geocoding to automatically map volunteer hours to low-to-moderate income (LMI) areas, alongside a dedicated review workflow for validating and editing submissions. With a multilingual CRA form and dedicated CRA reporting, you now have a single, streamlined hub to track, review and visualize your CRA impact.Improved Sorting for Manage Sign-UpsThe Manage Sign-Ups page will soon display 25 rows per page and support alphabetical sorting by username, making it faster to navigate large volunteer lists and manage your workload at a glance.Modernized Volunteer OpportunityThe modernized Volunteer Opportunity experience will go live for all users on April 14th. This update includes a more modern look and feel, enhanced accessibility, and a consolidated manage menu. Administrators can preview the new experience now via the toggle in their user profile. Learn more. Employee MobilizationEnhanced Challenges LeaderboardThe Challenges leaderboard will expand into a fully dedicated experience on the Browse Challenges page, where participants will be able to track their progress, see their community standing and discover challenges their peers have recently completed.Admins will also be able to toggle the leaderboard off entirely, giving programs the flexibility to dial up competition - or collaboration - as needed.Custom Categories in ChallengesChallenge managers will be able to create custom categories to align their Challenges with program-specific topics and pillars, beyond the default categories of Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion, and Wellbeing.Announcements 🔊New Payroll NotificationsFor clients leveraging Payroll donations in their programs, we have new system notifications from our Payroll Operations team that will ensure your Payroll pledges get committed and funds get to nonprofits faster. Your active Payroll Contacts will be notified directly when there are missing or late Success Files or if there are discrepancies that require action.California Assembly Bill 488 complianceBenevity is implementing new verification standards to ensure your programs remain compliant with California Assembly Bill 488. Effective Thursday, Apr. 30, 2026, nonprofits that do not meet these state requirements will be deactivated until their compliant status has been restored. Learn more.Subprocessor updates and additions To support the continued expansion of our platform and global operations, Benevity will soon be appointing three new subprocessors. Each has executed a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) inclusive of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and operates under rigorous security and privacy controls in compliance with GDPR.Anthropic (Claude): Internal employee productivity and operational workflows through AI-assisted data analysis and support tools. (U.S.-based). Docebo: User training and onboarding via our Learning Management System (EU/U.S.-based). Glia Intelligence: Supports automation of internal operational processes and workflows  (U.S.-based).For full notification details on these new subprocessor appointments please click on their names above. View our up-to-date subprocessor list for details on existing subprocessors.If you have any questions or wish to raise an objection regarding this appointment based on data protection grounds, please contact the Client Success team or privacy@benevity.com within 30 days of this notice. Join us for the next Quarterly Product Webinar:🗓 Wednesday, June 24⏰ 8am PT / 9am MT / 11am ET🎟 Register here

National Volunteer Week takes place April 19 — 25, 2026.This year, we’ve partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Connection to build a campaign kit focused on connecting people through volunteering.It includes ready-to-use Volunteering, Giving and Challenges content, plus resources and best practices guides — making it easier than ever to set up your campaign and make an impact. 💪🎯 Check out the campaign kit 

Being named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2026 — specifically in the Social Good category — is a powerful testament to our shared conviction. It confirms that when you lead with purpose, innovation naturally follows. This recognition honors the visionaries who don’t just dream of a better world but build the tools to create it.A win powered by our communityThis achievement belongs to you. Your purpose inspires us, and your daily engagement fuels the innovation we need to create real-world change. We share this win with you, and the 8.5 million changemakers and over 2.5 million validated nonprofits who drive impact every day.What this recognition celebrates:Deliberate investment in a holistic platform: The launch of our Enterprise Impact Platform (EIP) unifies giving, volunteering and grantmaking into a unified system. This end-to-end experience helps you drive measurable business and social outcomes. Shaping the future with AI: Led by the industry's first Chief AI Officer, our pioneering use of Responsible AI acts as an "intelligent guide." It enables greater efficiency and reduces administrative friction so you can accelerate your speed to impact. Powering tangible change: Our innovation goes beyond technology to offer a strategic advantage that builds resilience in an uncertain world. This includes our trusted engine that powers secure global money movement, nonprofit validation and a rigorous approach to risk management.Thank you for trusting us to support your programs and for proving that purpose-driven technology can solve the world's greatest challenges.🎉 Read the full article here

Secure, scalable and transparent global Money Movement, powered by Benevity.Every global impact program depends on trust — not just in what you fund, but in how funds get there.That’s why Benevity built a system where companies can disburse funds confidently, and nonprofits receive them reliably. Our goal is simple: help you deliver purpose at scale, without friction.You asked, and we have delivered. Benevity needs a faster way to move money.Money Movement is now a strategic imperative at Benevity to meet the evolving needs of your programs, and we continue to prioritize what really matters: trusted, compliant, enterprise-grade infrastructure that accelerates disbursements.Starting April 7, you will be able to unlock accelerated fund disbursements through leveraging a Corporate or Global Donor Advised Fund (DAF):14–21 day disbursements on all donation types Fund delivery to over 2.4 million nonprofits Continued 99.7% payment success rate Industry-leading compliance, brand risk mitigation and ongoing fraud monitoringWe’ve also streamlined financial management in the brand new Benevity Causes Portal suite - empowering our nonprofit partners to turn faster funding into immediate, real-world impact.🗓 Join tomorrow’s Quarterly Product Webinar to learn more.👀 Further details coming to the B-Hive and in April Release Notes.

Turn personal action into collective impact with the latest update to our Challenges add-on! You now have the option to manually pair specific challenges with relevant giving opportunities, transforming the positive momentum of completing a challenge into financial support for your nonprofit partners.By embedding the donation prompt directly within the challenges success modal, you remove the barriers between employee action and community impact. This seamless integration ensures that your CSR goals are woven into the daily experience of your team. Elevate your engagement strategy by turning every individual milestone into a unified movement for the causes that matter most to your organization. Want to learn more?🎯 Visit the B-Hive to learn more about connecting giving opportunities to Challenges. Please reach out to your Client Success team with any additional questions you might have.👉 Check out the full list of February Release Notes here.

The State of Corporate Volunteering 2026 — the latest report from Benevity Impact Labs — is officially here to help us shape the future of impact.📈 Read the report: The State of Corporate Volunteering 2026As we continue through the United Nations’ International Volunteer Year, the momentum is undeniable: since 2019, the number of unique corporate volunteers has more than tripled. But as participation surges, the way people volunteer is changing. From the rise of the "micro-volunteer" to a new focus on skills-based support, we have a massive opportunity to reimagine our programs.Join the conversation 👇 👥 Share with your peers: Jump into our async thread to connect on how we can reimagine the next era of volunteering.🗓 Join the April 2 Huddle: We’ll dive deeper into these trends during a live session with your peers.📘 Read Sona’s take: Check out her new blog post, Corporate volunteering needs to change, and it starts with us.  

Match Assurance is Benevity’s platform promise for simple, secure and reliable match processing, transforming the submission process into a frictionless employee experience. It uses real-time AI validation to guide employees in submitting higher-quality "Money" matching requests, drastically reducing administrative burden and enabling faster approval times.Releasing today, AI-assisted user submissions is the first major milestone of the Match Assurance journey. 🎉Employees often make mistakes when manually entering receipt details for donations made off-platform, leading to declined requests, back-and-forth with administrators and slower approvals. By helping employees catch errors and improve submission quality at the source, we reduce the amount of low-quality submissions from your queue, reducing effort and accelerating review cycles. Please submit a Support request or reach out to your Client Success team with any additional questions.🚀 Check out all of our March product releases here.

What's new for Benevity products in MarchFind out what’s changed and what’s coming soon across Benevity products this month. GivingAI-assisted match submissionsWe’ve launched a smarter way to submit external match requests. As of March 3, phase one of Match Assurance is live! Using assistive AI, the system now scans employee receipts and auto-fills submission forms for "Money" type match requests—eliminating manual data entry and catching errors before they’re submitted. Match Assurance creates a seamless journey for your employees and a much lighter lift for admins.  Grants Management AI Grant summariesOur first generative AI feature for Grants that automatically reads lengthy grant applications and provides a concise, structured summary directly within the reviewer's workflow. Modernization: payments module  (BETA)We are completely modernizing the Payments module, including the Payments Grid, History, and Advanced filters to provide a significantly faster and higher performance experience while maintaining functional parity with all standard features. This update features a sophisticated hierarchical mailbox filter and a tailored interface that intelligently persists your preferred grid, sidebar, and filter settings to ensure your most efficient layout is ready the moment you log in. We've undertaken a complete modernization of the Payments module, focusing on delivering a significantly faster and higher performance experience. This comprehensive update covers the Payments Grid, History, and Advanced filters, ensuring full functional parity with all existing standard features.Key enhancements include:Tailored Interface: The system now intelligently persists your preferred settings for the grid, sidebar, and filters. Your most efficient layout will be immediately ready every time you log in.Sophisticated Filtering: A new hierarchical mailbox filter has been introduced to improve search and organizationProgram and Risk ManagementNew administrator Resource CentreOur Resource Center is accessible directly within the platform for admins via a new help icon. Admins gain a curated menu featuring B-Hive resources, community links and product updates. Reporting Studio personally identifiable information maskingWe are introducing PII masking within Reporting Studio to give you more granular control over data visibility. This allows admins to grant reporting access to more team members without compromising the privacy information (like home addresses, personal emails, or tax IDs). By implementing this feature, you can resolve the dual challenge of compliance risk and operational inefficiency, bringing your team in line with industry standard best practices for reporting. VolunteeringEnhanced volunteer sign-up confirmationsImproved signup notifications will feature enriched "add-to-calendar" invites that serve as comprehensive mission briefs, giving volunteers all the event details they need directly within their schedules.​​​​​New volunteer opportunity (BETA)Administrators will be able to preview the new Volunteer Opportunity experience on March 3rd. This update includes a more modern look and feel, enhanced accessibility, and a consolidated manage menu. Admins can enable the preview via the toggle in their user profile, and it will officially go live for all users on April 7th.  Upcoming Product Releases VolunteeringEnhanced volunteer reminders We are transforming reminder emails to now include "Mission Brief" that packs everything your volunteers need into a single view. From one-click Add-to-Calendar buttons to full event details, and direct access to your volunteer portal. It’s all the info you need to make an impact, delivered right when you need it. Improved volunteer opportunity approval and decline notificationsWe’ve polished up our "Approved" and "Declined" emails to be way easier on the eyes. Now, you’ll get a direct update on your submission with a quick breakdown of what happens next—like how to start signing up volunteers or whether a tweak is required. It’s all the info you need, right when you need it, so you can keep things moving.​​​​Challenges Collective ChallengesFoster a spirit of unity with our new Collective Challenges. This feature allows individual points to pool toward a community-wide goal, prioritizing collaboration over competition. Once the target is hit, you have the flexibility to celebrate that success in the way that best fits your culture - whether by coordinating a corporate donation, a special matching campaign, or a team activity.​​​​​​Grants ManagementIn-App dashboardsThe new In-App Dashboard offers a centralized view that puts program health and task priorities in one place. It eliminates the need to switch between pages or run reports just to understand what needs attention. Program Administrators can spend less time gathering data and more time acting on it—starting each day with instant clarity on what's urgent and what's on track.​​​​​​ Program and Risk ManagementFaster global disbursementsWe believe purpose is the future of business, built on an infrastructure that anchors the speed of human generosity in global compliance, security and predictability. Our world-class financial engine manages the complexities of global corporate giving—from cross-border regulations to fraud protection. By leveraging our Donor Advised Fund (DAF) infrastructure, your consolidated donations can now reach nonprofits in as little as 14 days, delivering funds quickly and at a global scale without compromising the rigorous security and compliance your program depends on.Ready to accelerate your impact with the most compliant funding model in the industry? Talk to your CSM today to learn how a Corporate or Global DAF can unlock 14-day disbursements for your program.  Announcements  ⛔ Scheduled outage: March 7, 2026We’re performing a scheduled maintenance outage to update Benevity products on Saturday, Mar. 7. This may briefly affect your ability to use our products. Please subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates.🗓 Quarterly Product Webinar: March 25, 2026Join us to get an exclusive look at Benevity’s latest product enhancements! Be the first to explore our newest product innovations, see what’s on the horizon and gain insights into how our latest improvements can help you elevate your impact.Register here 💈Streamlined technical support for Employee Groups  We have updated our B-Hive resources and end user Help Centers with content to support your Employee Groups programs. Client Administrators can also now receive technical support for Employee Groups the same way you do for Employee Engagement and Grants Management - through the Bhive support request form. Our Technical Support specialists are there to help you troubleshoot and your CSM partners are there for any strategic support you need.

AI is often viewed as a way to replace human effort, but at Benevity, we see it as a way to scale human goodness. On March 3, we’re launching two new features that leverage AI to reduce administrative burden and streamline the path to funding. 🌟 The first is Match Assurance, which removes the friction from off-platform donation matching. By automatically extracting data from uploaded receipts, it slashes manual entry errors and ensures faster, more accurate submissions.🌟 The second is AI Grant Summaries, which reviews lengthy grant applications and provides a concise, structured summary directly within the reviewer's workflow. Reviewers can quickly identify which proposals align with their program’s goals and are thus worth a deep dive.Both of these features were thoughtfully crafted in alignment with Benevity’s new Responsible AI Policy.   In case you missed it: Catch our AI Webinar from December  🎥 Watch the recording here 

Introducing the latest evolution of giving opportunity pages! 💫We’ve redesigned the experience with a modern, "storytelling-first" approach to boost engagement through better clarity and accessibility.Key Highlights:Modernized UI: A refreshed look and feel for a seamless experience on any device Impact transparency: Improved visibility and summaries so you can see the results of your giving at a glance Streamlined administration: A new "Manage Menu" that makes running global programs simpler and faster for adminsTake a self-guided tour below to see the new experience in action!👇 

What's new for Benevity products in FebruaryFind out what’s changed and what’s coming soon across Benevity products this month. GivingImproved giving opportunity pagesGiving opportunities look slicker and are more accessible. A better menu makes administration easier. You’ll also enjoy an enhanced display of donation and match amounts.VolunteeringEnhanced Volunteer Sign-up NotificationsVolunteer sign-up email notifications now have comprehensive details, including guest counts, remaining capacity, and volunteer specifics like contact info and waiver status, so organizers can stay fully informed, right from their email inbox.Program & Risk Management ‘Take Action’ from the homepageDrive immediate participation with guided workflows and clear buttons that make it easier for your employees to donate or use their rewards.Grants Management Scale your program with our overhauled Location Management Service Take advantage of accurate, proximity-based search and configurable routing that removes the need for custom solutions.Automatic translationsBreak down language barriers instantly and expand your global reach with dynamic translation that makes cross-border collaboration effortless.Employee GroupsPre-event surveys in Employee GroupsEmpower your Group Leaders to capture the exact details they need through custom event surveys to ensure every event is executed with confidence.​​​​​ChallengesConnect giving opportunities to ChallengesLink giving opportunities directly to Challenges to capture the momentum of employee success to drive more donations to your nonprofit partners.  Upcoming Product ReleasesHere’s a preview of product updates planned for release on March 3. These are subject to change and will be confirmed in the next release notes. Giving AI-Assisted Match SubmissionsOur new AI-powered receipt scanning will automatically populate donation details and flag errors during the match request process, saving employees time while ensuring high-quality data for administrators.VolunteeringEnhanced Volunteer Sign-up Confirmations Improved signup notifications will feature enriched "add-to-calendar" invites that serve as comprehensive mission briefs, giving volunteers all the event details they need directly within their schedules.Program & Risk Management A Multilingual Help CenterNew AI-powered translations for our Help Center will allow global teams to instantly access product guidance in their preferred language.Updated In-app Help ExperienceAn intuitive help experience will provide in-app support and resources for end users and admins from the same place, so everyone can get the help they need from the same place.Grants ManagementAI Grant summariesAI-powered grant summaries will instantly condense lengthy applications into structured overviews, allowing reviewers to quickly evaluate proposals and prioritize their time for deeper dives.  AnnouncementsRegulation change in Texas and FloridaThere are new regulation changes for Texas and Florida that may require your attention and impact your programs. For more information, please log in to the B-Hive and review the US Policy Updates article.  Upcoming scheduled outagesMarch 7, 2026 next scheduled outage We’re performing a scheduled maintenance outage to update Benevity products on March 7. This may briefly affect your ability to use our products.  Please subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates. 

Submit a nomination for the Goodie AwardsYou’re pushing boundaries and creating real impact every day, when it matters most. Now, it’s time to celebrate it. Nominations for the Goodie Awards, our annual celebration of companies turning purpose into action, are open until Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.Why submit a nomination?Be recognized as a leader shaping the future of corporate purpose Celebrate your successes and reflect on the power of your program Inspire others by sharing the ideas and innovations that set your program apart✍ Take the Quiz: Find your Goodies fit💥 Submit your nominations Support with submitting a nomination🎥 On-Demand Recording: Turn your impact into a stand-out nomination (Feb 3)💎 Goodie Awards GuideCall for speakersWe aren't looking for the "perfect" PR-ready success story. We're looking for stories of resilience, quiet persistence and the courage to stay the course. We want to hear about the choices you made when the path wasn't clear, and the impact you’ve protected when the noise was loudest. Submit your idea by Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.🎤 Submit your speaking idea 

It was a landmark year for corporate purpose. Benevity’s Top Charitable Causes data was released today, and it reveals that workplace giving is coming home.Record $3.74 billion donated via Benevity platform 316,227 unique nonprofits around the world received support Support for emergency food causes increased by 35% Funding for international causes dropped by 9% year-over-year“2025 saw a distinct turn towards ‘at home’ as donors prioritized support for local crises and disasters. In 2026, we hope to harness this momentum to ensure generosity remains borderless.” Sona Khosla, Benevity Chief Impact Officer. 📊 Key highlights from the 2025 data:Surge in emergency food support Jump in rapid-response mobilization Civil rights & legal defense funding increase Health organizations remained steadfast in the top 20📁 Read the full press releaseAre these causes reflective of your company? Let us know by replying in the comments 👇

 Keep that Giving Season energy going! 🚀We know you are looking to drive engagement with limited resources — so we are here to help you start the year strong without the administrative heavy lifting.Our new Jumpstart Generosity campaign kit is designed to help you inspire your people to turn good intentions into lasting impact. Use it to drive goodness throughout the year by shifting from one-off giving to steady, recurring support that strengthens resilience and fuels recovery.By encouraging recurring donations, you provide nonprofits with predictable, steady funding that allows them to move away from "crisis-mode" and focus on their long-term programs and daily operations.The campaign kit includes: Communication Templates: To get the word out fast. Nonprofit Lists: Vetted and ready to go. Strategy Guide: Best practices for using rewards and seeding. 💙 Download the kit

The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce that registration for Benevity Live! 2026 is officially live. Join us from June 2-4, 2026, in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona, for an unforgettable experience where purpose connects us all.In a world where change is constant, this event is designed for purpose-driven leaders, innovators, and changemakers to come together and shape the future of social impact. Whether you lead employee engagement, culture, DEIB, grants or impact measurement, this is your space to exchange ideas and build community.Why you should join usConnect with peers who are defining what purpose looks like in business and the world. Learn from bold thinkers and storytellers inspiring new ways to lead. Discover new strategies to strengthen engagement, measure impact, and champion your work. Experience how ethical AI is transforming social impact. Explore content tracks for grantmakers, culture builders, and impact leaders. Secure early bird pricingRegister before February 28, 2026, to take advantage of Early Bird rates before pricing increases.Pass Type Early Bird Price Standard Price All-Access Pass $1,999 $2,299 General Pass $1,449 $1,749  Ready to join us? Head over to live.benevity.com to secure your spot today! 

What's new for Benevity products in JanuaryFind out what’s changed and what’s coming soon across Benevity products this month.VolunteeringNotifications -  opportunity owners and/or contacts when sign up is removedEmail notifications are an important way for organizers to stay up to date on how their events are shaping up without needing to log in. Owners and contacts will soon be receiving email alerts when volunteers remove their signups, as well as receive a running total of signups with each notification so they can stay on top of how many volunteers to expect at their event.Program & Risk Management Expanded featured content carouselThe new expanded featured content section gives program admins who are using stream manager greater flexibility and control to configure and showcase a broader range of content on their homepage. Admins will have the option to select 3, 6 or 9 cards of content to display on their homepage.Grants Management Audit logs for email template changes We've added a new Audit Log feature to Self Serve Manage Emails, giving you full transparency and control. You can now track every change made to your email templates, view who made the update, and easily search, filter, and export the entire history for compliance and security reviews.Nonprofit Experience Streamlined grant application management for nonprofitsThe new grant application management dashboard in the Causes Portal gives your nonprofit partners a single, centralized place to track the status of all their grant applications, providing greater transparency, reducing administrative effort, and helping get your funding to work in the community faster.​​​​​  Upcoming Product ReleasesHere’s a preview of product updates planned for release on February 3. These are subject to change and will be confirmed in the next release notes. VolunteeringEmail notifications changes for user signupsCoordinators and contacts will now receive modernized email notifications when a user signs up.Program & Risk Management Admin Resource Center and easy access to Grace (end user support bot)The in-app support experience is tailored to your role. End users have access to Grace, a conversational support bot that provides instant answers to common questions, directly within the platform. Program administrators access the full Resource Center, which includes access to Genie (our admin support bot from the B-Hive) plus additional tools: announcements, the client community, and feedback submission. This integrated approach helps everyone get the most out of your Benevity programs, whether you need quick answers or comprehensive admin resources.GivingNew giving opportunity preview available Administrators will be able to preview the modernized Giving Opportunity experience on January 6th. This update includes a more modern look and feel, enhanced accessibility, and a consolidated manage menu. Administrators can enable the preview via the toggle in their user profile Take action from the homepageA new ‘take action’ section on the homepage offers guided workflows to make it easier for your employees when they want to make a first time donation, or use the rewards they have available. ​​​​Employee MobilizationPre-event surveys in Employee GroupsGroup Leaders can create custom surveys to gather information from attendees at the time they sign up for an event, ensuring they have all the details necessary for their events to be executed successfully.  AnnouncementsReports migration to Reporting StudioWe’re beginning a phased reports transition from legacy reporting systems (Benevity Reporting and Crystal Reports) to our next-generation Reporting Studio. This process will take place gradually to ensure stability and a smooth experience. Here's what to expect:No changes or disruptions to your reports during Giving Season (November - February). Grants Essential reports will begin transitioning in December 2025, with identified clients notified directly. All other reports will follow in later phases, based on product readiness.No action is required at this time - we’ll communicate directly when your reports are ready to move.  Upcoming scheduled outagesJanuary 9 - 11, 2025 additional outageTo facilitate continuous improvements and lay the technical foundation for a smoother overall experience -  including greater efficiencies in data load times -  Benevity Reporting Studio will undergo an extended maintenance period.When: The Reporting Studio will be offline from 5 p.m. PT on Friday, Jan. 9, until 5 p.m. PT on Sunday, January 11, during next month's scheduled maintenance outageJanuary 24, 2026 next scheduled outage We’re performing a scheduled maintenance outage to update Benevity products on January 24. This may briefly affect your ability to use our products.  Please subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates.

The State of Corporate Purpose is our annual deep dive into the trends shaping the future of social impact. It allows impact leaders to see where the industry is heading and how they can prioritize their efforts to drive measurable change in 2026.The State of Corporate Purpose survey and report:Uncovers the trends that will influence investment and program design. Helps set industry benchmarks for the coming year. Harnesses collective insight to turn hope into action.Take the survey(Survey closes Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. PT) Why participate? Data drives decision-making. By contributing your expertise, you help us build a clearer vision of what the future of impact looks like. Plus, as a thank-you for your time, you’ll be entered to win either:One of three General Admission passes to Benevity Live! (excluding travel/accommodations) US$500 (or equivalent) in charitable gift cards to support the causes you care about most  Important survey details: Take the survey: Share your perspective in our streamlined survey (it takes about 20 minutes). Use a computer: We recommend completing the survey on a computer rather than a mobile device for the best experience. Your privacy matters: All data will be aggregated and de-identified for analysis and reporting purposes.

What's new for Benevity products in DecemberFind out what’s changed and what’s coming soon across Benevity products this month.Program & Risk Management Data Export API for Grants Advanced (Versaic), Donate and Volunteer Seamlessly integrate your CSR program data directly into your preferred business intelligence tools and systems using the new Data Export API. This powerful integration enables you to gain the necessary insights for measuring your program's impact and achieving a comprehensive, holistic view of all your initiatives.Employee MobilizationEvent capacity limits and waitlists for Employee GroupsEmployee Group leaders will have enhanced tools to streamline event management and improve the attendee experience with new capacity limits, waitlist functionality and sign up controls.VolunteeringTime submission updatesWe’re updating the time submission page to load faster for programs that have large amounts of historical submissions.User interface and catalog opportunity enhancements in volunteering catalogWe're updating the Coordinate Volunteering and Opportunity Details pages with a new, modern user interface for improved information and filter accessibility. Additionally, you can now configure catalog opportunities when adding them to your company catalog - allowing you to set default event descriptors, reporting tags, and rewards at the catalog level.   Upcoming Product ReleasesHere’s a preview of product updates planned for release on January 6. These are subject to change and will be confirmed in the next release notes.Program & Risk Management Expanded Featured Content CarouselThe new expanded featured content carousel gives program admins greater flexibility and control to configure and showcase a broader range of content on their home pages. Admins will have the option to select 3, 6 or 9 cards of content to display on their homepage.Tailored in-app support for your people and your program teams We’re changing the in-app support experience to provide resources to users where and when they need them. Your people will now have access to Grace, a conversational support bot that provides instant answers to common questions, directly within the platform. Program administrators and managers can access a comprehensive Resource centre, directly from the management side of the platform - including access to Genie, our admin support bot from the B-Hive, plus announcements, the client community and feedback submission. VolunteeringNotifications - opportunity owners and/or contacts when sign up is removedEmail notifications are an important way for organizers to stay up to date on how their events are shaping up without needing to log in. Owners and contacts will soon be receiving email alerts when volunteers remove their signups, as well as receive a running total of signups with each notification so they can stay on top of how many volunteers to expect at their event.Grants ManagementAudit logs for email template changes We've added a new Audit Log feature to Self Serve Manage Emails, giving you full transparency and control. You can now track every change made to your email templates, view who made the update, and easily search, filter, and export the entire history for compliance and security reviews.Nonprofit Experience Streamlined grant application management for nonprofitsThe new grant application management dashboard in the Causes Portal gives your nonprofit partners a single, centralized place to track the status of all their grant applications, providing greater transparency, reducing administrative effort, and helping get your funding to work in the community faster.   Announcements The Benevity Community has moved!We've built a more powerful space for impact leaders like you to connect, collaborate and grow stronger programs. Think: better navigation, more ways to connect with your peers and one centralized place for Benevity and product news. Get started in our new space by creating your account here.Reports migration to Reporting StudioWe’re beginning a phased reports transition from legacy reporting systems (Benevity Reporting and Crystal Reports) to our next-generation Reporting Studio. This process will take place gradually to ensure stability and a smooth experience. Here's what to expect:No changes or disruptions to your reports during Giving Season (November - February). Grants Essential reports will begin transitioning in December 2025, with identified clients notified directly. All other reports will follow in later phases, based on product readiness.No action is required at this time - we’ll communicate directly when your reports are ready to move.Next scheduled outages: December 13, 2025 and January 24, 2026We’re performing scheduled maintenance outages to update Benevity products on December 13 and January 24. This may briefly affect your ability to use our products. Please subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates.Additional outage for Benevity Reporting Studio: January 9 - 11, 2026To facilitate continuous improvements and lay the technical foundation for a smoother overall experience - including greater efficiencies in data load times - Benevity Reporting Studio will undergo an additional maintenance period from 5:00 p.m. PT on Friday, January 9 until 5:00 p.m. PT on Sunday, January 11.

A record-breaking Giving Tuesday: over $150 million donated!This year, the Benevity client community proved once again that purpose is stronger than ever. Despite a challenging economic landscape, you helped facilitate over $150 million in donations to nearly 60,000 nonprofits in 114 countries on Giving Tuesday. That is a massive 7.2% increase in donation volume compared to last year. “The success of this year’s Giving Tuesday is a testament to the generosity that is unlocked when people can connect and engage in the causes that matter most to them. These moments reconnect and rejuvenate people through their work – on behalf of the world.” - Soraya Alexander, CEO, Benevity. What is even more inspiring is who showed up. Nearly 16% of donations came from first-time donors, and volunteer participation grew by 9.2%. In a world where every dollar counts, your community stepped up to support the causes they care about most — with a donation made nearly every second throughout the day. This year’s highlights include:$150 million+ donated  60,000 global nonprofits 165,000+ individuals participated 7.2% increase in donation volume 23,000+ individual volunteers Top causes supported include: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Room to Read, National Center for Families Learning and United Way Greater Toronto. This is what collective impact looks like. Thank you for empowering your employees to be the heroes Giving Tuesday needs. Read the full press release