Benevity Product Release Notes: September 2026
What's new for Benevity products in September. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new and coming soon across Benevity products this month.
Live Product Updates 🚀
Grants Management
Grants AI Scoring
Grant reviewers can get a consistent, evidence-backed first-pass evaluation on every application the moment it's submitted — with a score, a plain-language justification, and supporting quotes for each criterion your team defines. It runs automatically in the background, so there's nothing new to learn and no change to how applicants submit. Log into the B-Hive and learn more.
Disbursements Tracker: Delay Messaging
Your Disbursement Tracker now tells you why and when a donation's disbursement is delayed — no more guessing or waiting on a support ticket to find out. Available automatically for all eligible clients, with no setup required. Log into the B-Hive and learn more.
Upcoming Product Updates ⌛
Donate + Volunteer
Benevity for Teams
The Benevity for Teams brings giving and volunteering opportunities directly into Microsoft Teams, so employees can discover and take action without ever leaving the tools they already use every day. Log into the B-Hive and learn more.
Donate
Sitewide Matching with Flow-Thru Support
Program Admins will be able to create and manage their own short-term, sitewide matching offers, without needing to contact support. This means that donations are always matched in full, even if a special offer's budget runs out first.
Grants Management
Versaic Standard Dashboards
Versaic Standard Dashboards are coming soon in 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 Versaic clients on the new budget module and updated multi-currency feature will have access directly within Reporting Studio. Log into the B-Hive and learn more.
Challenges
Challenge Series
Program admins can use Series to group multiple Challenges together to promote the campaigns they already run. Series turn scattered good intentions into sustained participation — users join and are presented with a curated path of Challenges, can see visible progress throughout and receive an optional completion bonus that rewards finishing the whole journey.
Announcements 🔈
Foundation-level eligibility
The Benevity platform now checks eligibility requirements at the foundation level, so a nonprofit that falls out of compliance with one foundation stays eligible to receive donations through the others. Today, that capability is specific to the UK Online Giving Foundation (UKOGF). Log in to the B-Hive to learn more.
Expanding global in-house validation
All nonprofits on the Benevity platform will be validated by Benevity directly through government syncs and regional sources to ensure they meet local eligibility requirements and are in good standing with relevant regulators. This change gives your team greater visibility, faster response times and confidence that your program meets rising regulatory requirements. Log in to the B-Hive to learn more.
DAF terminology updates
In May, we communicated updates to terminology for G/CDAF Donation Requests and Donation Reports. Since then, we've heard from some clients that the new terms didn't align well with their AP systems' automated processing, so we've appended "Invoice" to these terms to enable AP systems that key off that word. This change is already in effect for Donation Requests and will take effect for Donation Reports on Oct. 1 — see the Community Page for details.
Scheduled outages
We’re performing scheduled maintenance outages to update Benevity products on Saturday, Sept. 12. During this window, some features may be temporarily unavailable. Subscribe to our status page for real-time performance updates.
Related Product Events 🗓
Webinar: Get to know how funds disbursements just got faster Sept. 16, 2026 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET
Global money movement with Benevity is now even faster. Weekly disbursements from your Corporate and Global Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) can shrink the typical funds disbursement cycle to as little as 14 days. Join us for a look at how it works, plus a live Q&A.
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Office Hours: Reporting Studio Sept. 18, 2026 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m.
Got Reporting Studio questions? We have answers. Join our Product team for a live, interactive Office Hours session.
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Product Session: Employee Groups Sept. 24 9 a.m. PT | 12 p.m.
We heard you wanted a space to go deeper on Employee Groups — not ERG strategy broadly, but the product itself. That's why we've set up this session: to see how peers have set it up, what's working and what they'd tell someone starting today.
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Webinar: Quarterly Product Webinar Sept. 29 9 a.m. PT | 12 p.m.
Your exclusive look at the latest product enhancements from Benevity. Be the first to explore what's new, see what's ahead and learn how these updates can help you elevate your impact.
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