Benevity Guide

How does Benevity help companies engage their customers in doing good?
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Benevity helps companies boost customer engagement with a powerful API, public giving portal and charitable gift cards. 

Benevity Giving API is the world’s first scalable, micro-donation process platform that effortlessly integrates giving into nearly any customer interaction: e-commerce, online banking, rewards programs and more.

Benevity’s Community Impact (CI) Portal provides companies like yours with a public-facing microsite that allows your customers, clients, partners and the public to donate to vetted nonprofits using credit card, debit card, PayPal or donation gift card.

How does Benevity help companies support disaster and crisis relief?
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Benevity helps companies like yours respond quickly to social and humanitarian crises and mobilize your employees, customers and communities to do the same. 

Here’s how Benevity maximizes impact for disaster and crisis relief:

  • Provides one global solution for giving, matching, volunteering, corporate grantmaking and consumer-facing initiatives so companies can respond to a crisis anywhere in the world. 
  • Supports cross-border donations to a database of over 2 million vetted nonprofits worldwide.
  • Gets funding to nonprofits quickly, efficiently and accurately by bundling donations and sending 100% of them electronically.

Learn more about Benevity’s disaster and crisis relief solutions.

Is Benevity secure?
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Yes, Benevity is committed to security and privacy, undergoing annual independent evaluations like SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II reports, and adheres to PCI DSS standards for payment processing​​. Learn more about Benevity’s high security standards.

Learn more about Benevity’s security measures.

How does Benevity work?
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Benevity offers solutions for corporate purpose, employee engagement, community investment, and customer engagement through a variety of products including volunteering, micro-actions, giving, affinity groups, grants, as well as strategic partnerships​​.

How does Benevity handle data privacy?
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Benevity ensures user privacy rights globally, aligning with stringent regulations like GDPR, and uses encryption to protect data during transfers​​. 

Read Benevity’s Privacy Policy.

Can individuals use Benevity?
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Yes, individuals can engage with Benevity through their employer's Benevity-powered corporate giving programs. They can also donate to over 2 million vetted nonprofits through Benevity's API or Benevity's Community Impact Portal via companies who use these products.

Does Benevity offer any events or conferences?
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Yes! Benevity hosts Benevity Live!, an annual conference where purpose-driven pros converge to connect, ideate, celebrate and be a part of something bigger. Benevity also hosts regular webinars on CSR, corporate purpose and social impact topics.

What are Benevity's plans and pricing?
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All of our solutions provide the features you need to maximize your impact, but since every program is a little different, we have a few plan options which can be found on our Plans page. Please contact us directly to see a demo and get detailed pricing information.

How does Benevity ensure donations are used appropriately?
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Benevity provides transparency and accountability through detailed reporting to nonprofits and companies, ensuring donations are tracked and used as intended​​. Benevity has dedicated teams monitoring for fraud, with automated detection and prevention measures in place to ensure the integrity of giving programs.

Learn more about Benevity’s security measures.

How does Benevity ensure the legitimacy of nonprofits in its network?
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We ensure that every nonprofit on our platform is legitimate and in good standing by employing highly sophisticated vetting processes so you can give with confidence. Our partnerships with TechSoup and Bureau van Dijk help us to monitor nonprofit legitimacy and ensure they meet their local jurisdiction’s regulatory requirements.   

Learn more about Benevity’s security measures.