Employee volunteering,
without the chaos
Tired of manual coordination, disconnected tools, and hard-to-track participation? Groundswell simplifies volunteer programs so your team can launch faster, engage more employees, and focus on impact, not admin.
The volunteering platform you’ve been waiting for.
We power purpose-driven companies with a solution that is easier to use, faster to launch, and more cost-effective than anything else out there.
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.
“Groundswell has helped us scale our volunteer program alongside our company’s growth, making it easy for distributed teams to find and participate in opportunities.”
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No spreadsheets. No back-and-forth. Just simple program setup.
Create meaningful volunteer opportunities that inspire participation.
Robust Event Creation
Create and manage events of any complexity (multi-day, multi-shift, and recurring). Set custom capacities, manage shifts, and manage waitlists with ease.
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
Empower employees to create and manage their own volunteer events, assign event leaders, invite participants, and more.
Tiered Engagement Grants
Boost engagement with volunteer grants and matching programs that trigger automatically when employees hit participation or hour milestones.
Volunteer Campaigns
Track volunteer time, automatically approve matches, and process donations effortlessly. Launch campaigns to rally employees or let them volunteer independently.
Everything in one place—from sign-up to check-in
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 guests 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/Idealist to provide employees with access to tens of thousands of always-up-to-date volunteering opportunities.
Track impact in real time—not after the fact
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.
Ready to make a bigger impact?
Big impact doesn’t have to mean big effort. Groundswell makes it simple to launch, manage, and scale programs that matter.
