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 🚀
Volunteering
Enhanced Volunteer Sign-up Reminder Notifications
Volunteer 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.org
Joint 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.
Donate
Give Again Prompts
Donors 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 Mobilization
Collective Challenges
Foster 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 Calendar
The 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 Management
Operational Insights
The 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 Management
Faster global disbursements
We 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 Organizations
Disbursement Forecasting Dashboard
The 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 Reporting
Solves 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 Page
The 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 Search
This 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 Management
AI Application Summaries
Accelerate 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 Module
We’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.
Volunteering
Turn Volunteer Hours into Verified CRA Impact
We’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-Ups
The 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 Opportunity
The 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 Mobilization
Enhanced Challenges Leaderboard
The 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 Challenges
Challenge 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 Notifications
For 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 compliance
Benevity 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.
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