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.

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89% of Submittable customers build and launch a program in 2 weeks or less

Trulieve upped volunteer event participation by 55% with Submittable

MiiR saved 100 hours across the program lifecycle

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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 theirs²
Navigate byzantine search functions³
Deal with unhelpful or simply nonexistent customer support⁴

As an incumbent with 68.81% of the market share, this poor experience affects us all.⁵ Industry numbers prove we need change.

71%

Of employees say they want employee giving and volunteering programs.(6)

19.4%

Of employees participate in giving 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 should have full agency over who they give to and when. And, they need these opportunities to give and volunteer to come to them. We’re building tech that 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

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

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	✔
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 valuation.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

Schedule a demo today to see how Submittable compares with Benevity.

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.

Visit our comparison page here to explore a few more Benevity alternatives. Besides who's on that page, you may also want to look at newcomers like Groundswell or Deed.

We’re confident that once you see our platform in action, the choice will be clear. You can dig deeper into our philosophy on our “Why Submittable” page.

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