# Employee giving and volunteering: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "employee giving and volunteering platform" and as "corporate social responsibility platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-giving-and-volunteering/2026-11

**Standing:** Uncommon Giving leads with 22% of first choices; verdict contested. 58 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Uncommon Giving](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/uncommon-giving/index.md) | 22% | 2% | 42 |
| 2 | [Millie](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/millie/index.md) | 21% | 5% | 44 |
| 3 | [Selflessly](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/selflessly/index.md) | 10% | 0% | 18 |
| 4 | [Submittable](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/submittable/index.md) | 10% | 5% | 21 |
| 5 | [Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/benevity-enterprise-impact-platform/index.md) | 7% | 53% | 62 |
| 6 | [Groundswell](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/groundswell/index.md) | 3% | 12% | 26 |
| 7 | [Percent Pledge](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/percent-pledge/index.md) | 3% | 0% | 21 |
| 8 | [Field Day](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/field-day/index.md) | 3% | 0% | 20 |
| 9 | [POINT](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/point/index.md) | 3% | 23% | 13 |
| 10 | [Deed](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/deed/index.md) | 2% | 10% | 10 |
| 13 | [YourCause CSRconnect](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/yourcause-csrconnect/index.md) | 2% | 43% | 37 |
| 19 | [Goodera](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/goodera/index.md) | 0% | 19% | 16 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 81 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Bright Funds; alternatives Groundswell, Millie, Uncommon Giving
- GPT-5.4 mini: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Groundswell, Millie
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Deed; alternatives Alaya, Bright Funds, Groundswell, Percent Pledge
- Perplexity Sonar: Millie; alternatives Deed, Groundswell, Selflessly
- Grok 4.20: Millie; alternatives Groundswell, Selflessly
- Mistral Small: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Field Day, Millie, OnHand, Percent Pledge
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Groundswell
- Llama 4 Maverick: Percent Pledge, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Millie, Percent Pledge
- Kimi K2: Millie, Uncommon Giving; alternatives Groundswell
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Field Day
- MiniMax M2.5: Percent Pledge; alternatives Millie, Uncommon Giving
- GPT-6 Luna: Millie; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Blackbaud YourCause, Goodera
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, YourCause CSRconnect

## Sources the answers cite

79 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- uncommongiving.com: 53 answers, 138 citations
- benevity.com: 46 answers, 92 citations
- g2.com: 38 answers, 81 citations
- sourceforge.net: 34 answers, 56 citations
- momogood.com: 27 answers, 32 citations
- getapp.com: 21 answers, 27 citations
- capterra.com: 19 answers, 24 citations
- groundswell.io: 18 answers, 26 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://momogood.com/blog/best-employee-giving-platforms (26 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/category/guides/feed (22 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/csr-software (18 answers)
- https://benevity.com/blog/best-csr-software (17 answers)
- https://sourceforge.net/software/employee-giving/saas (14 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/corporate-volunteering-platform (14 answers)
- https://sourceforge.net/software/employee-giving (13 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/workplace-giving-platforms (13 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/comparison (12 answers)
- https://benevity.com/blog/best-volunteer-management-software (11 answers)

## Warned against

- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 33 of 62 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise platforms such as Benevity unless global scale, advanced reporting, or complex compliance justifies a custom quote" (Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt)
- YourCause CSRconnect: 16 of 37 labels negative. "What I'd Avoid for a Mid-Sized B2B Company | YourCause | High price tag, steep learning curve" (Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt)
- Bonterra: 4 of 8 labels negative. "Legacy Enterprise Platforms (If You Are an SMB or Mid-Market Company) ... Older legacy tools (such as CyberGrants or YourCause) often feature outdated, non-intuitive user interfaces." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)
- Goodera: 3 of 16 labels negative. "do not offer native donation matching or an employee giving wallet. If you need both giving and volunteering in one place, these may not be the best fit." (Mistral Small, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Millie (22%) to Uncommon Giving (22%). Margin 1 points, within noise.

- Uncommon Giving: 10% to 22%, +12. Inside the floor by 1 point · rank 3 → 1 of 81.
- Selflessly: 20% to 10%, −10. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 2 → 3 of 81.
- Submittable: 0% to 10%, +10. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 25 → 4 of 81.
- Bright Funds: 8% to 2%, −6. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 4 → 12 of 81.
- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 3% to 7%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 8 → 5 of 81.
- Groundswell: 7% to 3%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 6 of 81.
- Percent Pledge: 0% to 3%, +3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 24 → 7 of 81.
- Field Day: 0% to 3%, +3. New · not ranked in October 2026 · rank 8 of 81.
- YourCause CSRconnect: 5% to 2%, −3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 6 → 13 of 81.
- Millie: 22% to 21%, −1. Inside the floor by 12 points · rank 1 → 2 of 81.
- POINT: 3% to 3%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 7 → 9 of 81.
- Deed: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 9 → 10 of 81.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.