What's new for Benevity's products in September
Find out what’s changed and what’s coming soon across Benevity products this month.
Volunteer
VolunteerMatch updates
With the recent merger of Idealist and VolunteerMatch, we’re adapting the existing integrated offering. The update includes minor rebranding to indicate that the offering is powered by Idealist but the functionality will remain the same for end users. Learn more.
Now available!
Employee Mobilization
NEW: Employee Groups: Dynamic translations
Members will be able to dynamically translate event pages, blogs and posts directly within their feed when a post is in a language different from their own settings. Learn more.
Now available!
NEW: Employee Groups: Alt-text for images
Users are able to add descriptive alt-text when uploading and sharing images in Employee Groups to ensure they are accessible to screen reader users. Learn more.
Now available!
NEW: Employee Groups: Available in stream manager
Program admins will be able to use stream manager to highlight Groups in the featured content carousel to link employees directly to their Employee Groups program. Learn more.
Now available!
Program and Risk Management
NEW: Modernized search and browse experience
As part of our continued efforts to improve the user experience, we’ve modernized the browse, featured and search results pages, enhancing usability, accessibility and improved volunteering filtering. Learn more.
Now available!
Grants Management
NEW: Grants Advanced: Navigation menu for self-serve, payments and forecasting
As part of an ongoing user experience modernization we are expanding the existing navigation menu to the self-serve, payments and forecasting pages so that users can easily navigate through Grants Advanced.
Now available!
Upcoming Product Releases
As part of our commitment to keeping our clients informed, we’re providing a preview of the product updates our teams are planning to release over the next few months. Please note that these updates are subject to change and will be confirmed in the next release notes.
Volunteering
Volunteering catalog: Bulk actions
Program managers will be able to easily bulk add and bulk archive opportunities to their company catalog, rather than having to add one opportunity at a time.
Expected release: October 7
Volunteering catalog: Additional filters for content discovery
To ensure that program managers can easily and efficiently filter to find the right content for their program, we will be adding additional filters to the Volunteering Catalog. New filters include: Awareness days, number of volunteers needed, cost and, for admins, the ability to filter content that has and has not been added into their company catalog.
Expected release: October 7
Volunteering catalog: Bulk import updates
When bulk uploading volunteering opportunities, admins will have the ability to then download a consolidated signup CSV to easily add volunteers to multiple opportunities with one sheet.
Expected release: October 7
Employee Mobilization
Challenges: White-label and translatable email reminders
We’ve optimized Challenges reminder emails to feel even more personal and relevant for employees, aligning with your brand and their language preferences. These improvements are designed to boost employee engagement and challenge completion rate
Expected release: October 7
Challenges: Improving completion flexibility
Program managers will now be able to define whether employees must wait until the end of a Challenge’s duration to mark it as complete, or complete it at any time. This added flexibility allows challenges to better fit different activity types, reduces friction for participants and supports higher engagement and completion rates.
Expected release: October 7
Giving
Enable global friendraising with BOW
Personal fundraising pages will soon support cross-border donations through the Benevity One World (BOW) service. No matter where you — or the benefiting charity — are located, you can give and receive donations from around the world.
Expected release: October 7
