Micro-Actions

Make social impact simple (and fun!) with Challenges 

Easily run and measure gamified activities that encourage your employees to take small actions that drive big impact — for your people, your company and your communities.

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Bring your purpose to life

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Create agents of change

Challenges empower and motivate your employees to do more good through gamified and easy-to-complete activities.

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Make participation easy

Regardless of time, money, location or job type, anyone can participate in micro-actions. It’s the great engagement equaliser.

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Set off a chain of positive actions

Connect your employees’ values with your corporate values and drive cultural change.

Getting started with challenges is easy

STEP 1

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Choose a topic your employees care about

Choose from a library of gamified, easy-to-complete activities or create your own to drive positive impact, engage employees and bring your people together.

STEP 2

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Encourage participation

Motivate employees to participate with points that climb along with their impact.

STEP 3

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See results and share your impact

Get reports that help you articulate the impact of micro-actions and your programme overall.

Key product features

Access pre-loaded content

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Use ready-to-publish activities related to sustainability, well-being and inclusion.

Make it your own

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Create your own activities based on company values and initiatives.

Track your impact

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Your people can see their impact through a personalised dashboard, and you can see the collective impact of challenges combined with giving and volunteering.

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What makes our challenges different?

Act on your company and employee values
Whether your main focus is well-being, inclusion or sustainability, we have challenges to cover all of it.

The most accessible way to give back
Challenges take very little time and no money, making it easy for all employees to participate.

Drive real cultural change
Track your progress toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make a meaningful difference in the world.

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Boost employee engagement at work

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higher programme participation for programmes offering challenges.

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increase in volunteering and giving among first-time Benevity participants who start with challenges.

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higher productivity for highly engaged employees compared with satisfied employees.

“We launched a Missions pilot, and in just three weeks, we saw 45% engagement, with an average of 5.9 activities per participant. We posted two new Missions activities each week and each time engagement spiked.

Nicole Frisch, Senior Director, Community Engagement
First Tech

“The platform is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. [I like] challenges that don’t require a lot of commitment from employees, but reduce e.g. water consumption, saving energy, reducing Co2 consumption.”

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“Just by seeing your colleagues participating and socialising positive actions within the company, [micro-actions] increases awareness and engagement”

Jai,
PayPal Employee

“The actions we take create a sense of personal satisfaction, and our level of well-being can increase by participating in these activities.”

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Hamant,
PayPal Employee

“[It has] a lot of great initiatives, easy to share with your team — it is a great way of implementing small changes and [to] develop a new habit.”

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G2 User in Publishing

“The platform is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. [I like] challenges that don’t require a lot of commitment from employees, but reduce e.g. water consumption, saving energy, reducing Co2 consumption.”

Person
Tomasz M, G2

“Just by seeing your colleagues participating and socialising positive actions within the company, [micro-actions] increases awareness and engagement”

Jai,
PayPal Employee

“The actions we take create a sense of personal satisfaction, and our level of well-being can increase by participating in these activities.”

Person
Hamant,
PayPal Employee

“[It has] a lot of great initiatives, easy to share with your team — it is a great way of implementing small changes and [to] develop a new habit.”

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G2 User in Publishing

How are Benevity partners making the most of their corporate grant programs?

CASE STUDY

Atlassian: Using Challenges as a Springboard for Engagement and Giving Back

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CASE STUDY

How TC Energy Used Challenges to Increase Impact and Engage More Employees

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Challenges FAQs

What does "Challenges” mean?
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Challenges are small positive activities available on the Benevity platform that encourage employees to learn and take action on their well-being, the environment and society.
What are examples of Challenges?
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Challenges are centered around doing small things that can add up to big, positive impact. Some examples include:

  1. Cycle to work every day for one week.
  2. Go vegetarian for one week.
  3. Listen to a podcast from the LGBTQ+ community.
Can I choose which Challenges I’d like to use? 
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Yes, Benevity offers a library of Challenges for you to choose from, around the topics of sustainability, well-being and diversity, equity & inclusion. 

Can I create my own Challenges? 
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Yes, all it takes is a few simple steps. 

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