The Benevity alternative for CSR teams
that care about employee experience
Submittable is easier (for everyone!) to use and much quicker to launch than
Benevity. Plus, we’re actively developing genuine advancements in corporate
giving technology.
Benevity isn’t designed for how employees want to give
Benevity has cobbled together a huge platform with a ton of features thanks to a slew of acquisitions between 2018 and 2021.1
But, it doesn’t matter how big your CSR platform is if your employees don’t like using it.
Benevity forces employees to:
- Give on Benevity’s timeline, not theirs 2
- Navigate byzantine search functions 3
- Deal with unhelpful or simply nonexistent customer support 4
As an incumbent with 68.81% of the market share, this poor experience affects us all. 5 Industry numbers prove we need change.
employee giving and volunteering
programs.(6)
and matching programs. Down
1.6% from 2020.(7)
Submittable is building CSR tech
your employees will actually like using
We’re actively building new technology that will redefine the employee giving experience for years to come.
Employees can give whenever and however they like
Employees should have full agency over who they give to and when. And, they need these opportunities to give and volunteer to come to them. Submittable's Impact Wallet allows employees to:
- Receive giving awards for things like wellness challenges
- Give directly to organizations of their choice – yes, even sub-organizations like local chapters
- Create their own giving and volunteering events
- Track all their giving and volunteering in one place, including all receipts for tax season
Simple UX that doesn’t add work to their plates
Giving and volunteering programs shouldn’t create more work for employees. With Submittable, your employees will get:
- Automations, like auto-logging VTO
- A simple way to find and engage with volunteer events, giving campaigns, and ERGs
- Integrations to meet employees where they work, whether at their desk or in the field
Customer support that truly cares
Our purpose is to help you fulfill yours. Every Submittable client gets:
- Customer support for admins, employees, and nonprofits alike
- Employee onboarding that’s quick and easy to learn
- Quick launch times, most programs launch in less than two weeks
Benevity vs Submittable: Capabilities at a glance
| Submittable | benevity | |
|---|---|---|
| Grant application collection and review | ✔ | ✔ |
| Anonymized grant application review | ✔ | ✔ |
| Collaborative review | ✔ | |
| Grant application collection and review | ✔ | ✔ |
| In-app communication | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automate review workflows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Funds tracking and disbursement | ✔ | ✔ |
| Database of vetted nonprofits | ✔ | ✔ |
| Employee volunteering | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dollars for Doers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Personal impact dashboards | ✔ | ✔ |
| Micro-actions and challenges | ✔ | |
| ERG and affinity groups | ✔ | ✔ |
| User gamification and leaderboards | ✔ | |
| Giving and matching | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic matching | ✔ | ✔ |
| Comprehensive reporting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fundraising and donation collection | ✔ | ✔ |
| Connecting giving to employee engagement programs (e.g. wellness challenges and kudos programs) | ✔ | ✔ |
| A persistent wallet for all of an employees giving dollars | ✔ | ✔ |
| Overall Capterra rating | 4.7/5 | 3.4/5 |
| Capterra likelihood to recommend | 90% | 47% |
| Capterra customer service rating | 4.6/5 | 2.8/5 |
| Number of Capterra reviews | 154 | 36 |
Benevity was
great four
years ago
In 2020, Benevity became a unicorn, reaching a $1.1B valuations 8. And they’ve behaved as such ever since: an acquisition spree, layoffs, and declining customer service. 9 10
Recently, we’ve heard about price hikes and what sounds like feature deprecation.
One CSR manager we spoke to ran an annual giving campaign with Benevity. In 2024, Benevity told
them it wasn't possible to run that program on their platform anymore. And in a scramble to find a
Benevity alternative, they found us.
Benevity is stagnating.
When evaluating CSR software, ask yourself:
Do you want a platform built for 2020? Or one working to define corporate giving in 2030?
Submittable is the forward-thinking Benevity alternative
Here are a few more Benevity alternatives
We know we’re not the only CSR platform around. We encourage you to do your research and make the best choice for your team.
- If you’re considering Deed, you can check out our Deed alternatives page.
- If you’re considering Groundswell, check out our Groundswell alternatives page.
- If you’re considering Uncommon Giving, you can check out our Uncommon Giving alternatives page.