# Employee giving and volunteering for small business buyers: 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 small B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-giving-and-volunteering/smb

**Standing:** Millie leads with 21% of first choices; verdict contested. 61 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Millie](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/millie/index.md) | 21% | 7% | 44 |
| 2 | [Uncommon Giving](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/uncommon-giving/index.md) | 18% | 10% | 39 |
| 3 | [Selflessly](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/selflessly/index.md) | 13% | 0% | 29 |
| 4 | [Submittable](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/submittable/index.md) | 8% | 17% | 12 |
| 5 | [Groundswell](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/groundswell/index.md) | 5% | 11% | 27 |
| 7 | [Percent Pledge](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/percent-pledge/index.md) | 3% | 0% | 22 |
| 8 | [Field Day](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/field-day/index.md) | 3% | 6% | 18 |
| 10 | [POINT](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/point/index.md) | 2% | 8% | 12 |
| 21 | [YourCause CSRconnect](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/yourcause-csrconnect/index.md) | 2% | 77% | 31 |
| 23 | [Deed](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/deed/index.md) | 0% | 31% | 13 |
| 103 | [Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/benevity-enterprise-impact-platform/index.md) | 0% | 86% | 56 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 103 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: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Deed, Millie, WeSpire
- GPT-5.4 mini: Groundswell; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Deed, Millie, YourCause CSRconnect
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Millie; alternatives Alaya, Groundswell, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
- Perplexity Sonar: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Groundswell, Selflessly
- Grok 4.20: Millie; alternatives Percent Pledge, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
- Mistral Small: Field Day, Uncommon Giving
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Millie; alternatives Groundswell, Percent Pledge, Uncommon Giving
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Givebutter; alternatives Double the Donation, VolunteerHub
- Kimi K2: Millie, Uncommon Giving; alternatives Percent Pledge
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Givful, GivingTrax; alternatives Better Impact — Volunteer Link, YourCause CSR Connect
- MiniMax M2.5: Percent Pledge, Uncommon Giving; alternatives Millie
- GPT-6 Luna: Selflessly; alternatives Millie, Uncommon Giving
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Field Day, Goodera

## Sources the answers cite

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

- uncommongiving.com: 51 answers, 119 citations
- g2.com: 38 answers, 73 citations
- sourceforge.net: 35 answers, 72 citations
- benevity.com: 30 answers, 53 citations
- getapp.com: 27 answers, 46 citations
- momogood.com: 26 answers, 30 citations
- capterra.com: 25 answers, 34 citations
- milliegiving.com: 22 answers, 44 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://momogood.com/blog/best-employee-giving-platforms (23 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/category/guides/feed (22 answers)
- https://sourceforge.net/software/employee-giving/saas (18 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/corporate-volunteering-platform (18 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/csr-software (18 answers)
- https://benevity.com/blog/best-csr-software (15 answers)
- https://getapp.com/all-software/corporate-social-responsibility-csr (13 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/corporate-volunteering-software (13 answers)
- https://milliegiving.com/pricing (13 answers)
- https://socialatoz.com/software-category/corporate-volunteering-platforms (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 48 of 56 labels negative. "Benevity is the market leader for CSR ... widely criticized by small businesses and nonprofits for being bureaucratic and difficult to use." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- YourCause CSRconnect: 24 of 31 labels negative. "The same enterprise fit issues are highlighted for YourCause from Blackbaud. It is grouped with Benevity as an enterprise suite" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Deed: 4 of 13 labels negative. "Trade-off: pricing is enterprise-oriented; best value appears at larger headcount." (Muse Glimmer 30B, comparative prompt)
- Uncommon Giving: 4 of 39 labels negative. "Other notable mentions like Uncommon Giving or Field Day tend to start higher ($5k+/year) and are better for mid-sized companies." (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Selflessly (43%) to Millie (21%). Margin 8 points, within noise.

- Selflessly: 43% to 13%, −30. Cleared the floor by 17 points · rank 1 → 3 of 103.
- Uncommon Giving: 7% to 18%, +11. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 3 → 2 of 103.
- Millie: 17% to 21%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 2 → 1 of 103.
- Submittable: 4% to 8%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 4 of 103.
- POINT: 6% to 2%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 10 of 103.
- Groundswell: 2% to 5%, +3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 7 → 5 of 103.
- Percent Pledge: 0% to 3%, +3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 18 → 7 of 103.
- Field Day: 0% to 3%, +3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 45 → 8 of 103.
- YourCause CSRconnect: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 85 → 21 of 103.
- Deed: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 23 of 103.
- OnHand: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 25 of 103.
- Goodera: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 29 → 26 of 103.

## 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.