What's new for Benevity products in December
Find 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 Mobilization
Event capacity limits and waitlists for Employee Groups
Employee 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.
Volunteering
Time submission updates
We’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 catalog
We'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 Releases
Here’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 Carousel
The 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.
Volunteering
Notifications - opportunity owners and/or contacts when sign up is removed
Email 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 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 nonprofits
The 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 Studio
We’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, 2026
We’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, 2026
To 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.
