Grants

Employee volunteering
that works

Say goodbye to spreadsheets and scattered emails. Groundswell helps you create, manage, and track all your employee volunteer programs with ease. Empower your employees to donate their most precious resources - their time and talent.

The volunteering platform you’ve been waiting for.

Smarter Program Design

Create meaningful volunteer opportunities that inspire participation. Our smart planning tools make it effortless to launch and promote events that your team will love.

Next-Level Event Management

Keep everything running smoothly on the day of your events with tools that make it easy to track attendance, log hours, and manage on-site activities.

Detailed Post-Event Reporting

Turn your volunteer data into actionable insights. Measure impact, gather feedback, and demonstrate the value of your volunteer programs.

Smarter Program Design

Create meaningful volunteer opportunities that inspire participation.

Robust Event Creation

Create and manage events of any complexity (multi-day, multi-shift, and recurring) for individual or team signups. Set custom capacities, manage shifts, and manage waitlists automatically.

Employee Segmentation

Target events to specific employee segments based on location, interests, and skills. Create public or private events and invite your entire workforce or target invites via HRIS data.

Employee-Created Events

Enable employee champions to create and run their own events. All employee-organized events go through admin approval flows.

Dollars for Doers

Encourage employees to volunteer with a matching program. Track volunteer time, automatically approve eligible matches, and process donations with ease.

Next-Level Event Management

Keep everything running smoothly on the day of your events.

Flexible Hours Logging

Capture volunteer time with ease: choose from multiple tracking options including automatic logging, on-site check-ins, and batch uploads – all designed to fit your workflow.

On-Site Event Management Tools

Manage attendees and log hours in real-time. Check-in attendees while on site with the Groundswell mobile app.

Event Communications

Send event reminders before and after the event to encourage participation and hours logging. Email attendees with updates. Keep calendars up to date with integrated calendar management.

Volunteer Opportunity Database

Integrate with VolunteerMatch to provide employees with access to tens of thousands of always-up-to-date volunteering opportunities.

Detailed Post-Event Reporting

Track, report, and turn your volunteer data into actionable insights.

Post-Event Surveys

Customize and send post-event surveys to gather valuable feedback from attendees and inform future event planning. Easily add, edit, and tailor questions to fit each event’s needs.

Charitable Impact Reporting

Track and analyze event data with interactive impact dashboards. Filter and visualize real-time insights using HRIS data points to uncover trends, measure engagement, and drive planning decisions.

Data API

Seamlessly integrate your impact data with your own systems and data lake using our powerful Data API, keeping everything connected, accessible, and actionable.

Comprehensive Program Reporting

Track all your social impact efforts - from giving to grantmaking - in one comprehensive platform. No silos, no extra logins—just one seamless platform for all your impact.

Groundswell Grants

The market’s first fully unified giving, volunteering, and grantmaking platform.

Real-Time Impact

Charities shouldn't wait months for funds. We've reduced payment times to just 24 hours, so you can make an impact when it matters most.

Easy to Administer

Reduce your admin burden by up to 90% with admin-free payroll giving, automated donation matching, and easy volunteer management.

Access for Everyone

Bring equal access to your social impact programs and ensure every employee can contribute to the company’s mission.