Why leading companies choose Benevity over Submittable

Submittable's CSR offering is built on its 2024 acquisition of WizeHive, which had previously combined with Bright Funds (2021) and WeHero (2023) — three formerly separate brands now consolidating under one roof. The Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform unifies the full program in a single system:

• Giving, volunteering, grants management, employee groups, challenges and reporting in one platform
• One vendor, one contract and one audit trail instead of several stitched-together tools
• Less time reconciling data across systems, more time proving outcomes

Enterprise programs need to operate everywhere their workforce does. The Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform is built for that scale:

• Disbursement to 160+ countries in 100+ currencies
• A 99.7% payment success rate
• Enterprise-grade risk mitigation built into every transaction, including SOC 2 Type II infrastructure, GDPR and PCI DSS compliance and daily sanctions screening

Based on public G2 data, 70.3% of Submittable's reviewers are small-business, while 51.7% of Benevity's are enterprise. For a CSR team running a global program, that's the better-evidenced fit: Benevity's published track record is with organizations at that scale, while Submittable's points to smaller implementations.

Every nonprofit on the Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform moves through four layers of due diligence — not a one-time score generated by a query or an algorithm, but a proprietary process that Benevity’s own cause operations team owns and runs continuously, before and throughout the life of a client relationship:

1. Validation to confirm eligibility
2. Verification of the people and payment details behind a profile
3. An in-depth, values-based review tailored to a client's risk tolerance, led by a team with decades of combined experience in global regulations and governments
4. Investigation when a specific concern is flagged

Third-party data from partners like sanctions and compliance databases feeds into the process, but the review and the judgment behind every decision are Benevity’s own. It’s always on — continuously validating and re-validating the network so clients can give with confidence anywhere in the world.

Giving and volunteering are only part of the engagement equation. The Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform also includes:

• A dedicated Employee Resource Group management module — with budget allocation for local, regional and global chapters, and real-time reporting on membership and engagement — that builds belonging at scale
• Gamified Challenges, backed by a turnkey library of pre-loaded activities across sustainability, wellness and inclusion that’s updated regularly, giving every employee a way to participate, not just those who can donate or take time off to volunteer

As a result, clients report a 27% average increase in employee participation, and 77% say Benevity helps them build a stronger, more connected culture.