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    Alaya by Benevity

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAlaya, now from Benevity since the December 2021 acquisition, is a platform that helps companies to build a purpose-driven culture and engage employees to make an impact, one act at a time. The solution aims to enable experiences that bring out the human side of work, so that companies and their employees can do good and measure their actions every day. By volunteering, giving, or taking simple actions such as biking to work, saving energy, or committing to a healthier lifestyle, employees are…N/A

    YourCause

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AYourCause is a SaaS-based platform that is a fully hosted and managed solution used to engage employees in volunteering, giving, and sustainability initiatives, along with helping grants administrators manage corporate and foundation philanthropic programs.N/A
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    Alaya by BenevityYourCause
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    Alaya by BenevityYourCause
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsProduct pricing varies based on company needs and employee size.
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    User Ratings
    Alaya by BenevityYourCause
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (14 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (14 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    6.5
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    User Testimonials
    Alaya by BenevityYourCause
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Benevity
    Alaya is the perfect tool to combine corporate social responsibility programs with employee engagement. If it’s important to involve and motivate employees to participate and connect more with your company, Alaya is a great fit - especially if your employees are spread across many locations around the world.
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    Blackbaud
    In my experience I feel YourCause is well suited for: Companies that need to manage multiple corporate giving, volunteering, and grant making programs, etc. on one platform. For companies looking for an easy and effective way of vetting non-profit organizations. Those organization focused on employee engagement and looking to measure employee participation and using data to share impact and storytelling. Company platform super users or platform admins looking to influence new products and ideas as early adopters.
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    Pros
    Benevity
    • Customization allows user to create custom fields, rules and objects.
    • Reporting provides us with accurate progress tracking and important business metrics.
    • Interactive dashboard helps in understand the overall status, process and workflows.
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    Blackbaud
    • The Engagement Element functionality is flexible and user-friendly.
    • The IRS database integration is a great feature when employees are able to choose any charity in the U.S.
    • It is very helpful to see your total community impact (volunteering and giving) on one page.
    • Our dedicated account manager is great - very responsive and proactive.
    • Integration with Workday.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Benevity
    • Customer support
    • Offer should
    • # of Hoeys doesnt match level of effort
    • Only Three challenges are there it should be at least 4 or 5
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    Blackbaud
    • There is not a blogging feature, it would be great to have that as an innovative feature in the future. Many firms are lookign at new ways to always share their stories, story tell, and allow their employees to share their volunteer and charitable giving passions.
    • It would be very beneficial if external NPOs could create events within CSRconnect on the compamy's behalf. This would help drive volunteerism and the administrative burden.
    • There are a lot of steps to "Give" to an NPO and also request a company match.
    • There are no generic toolkits to help onboard new companies to show them how to set up different features i.e. playbook. There is not a guide that outlines the different tools and functions, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Benevity
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    Blackbaud
    We have thoroughly enjoyed our relationship with CSRconnect and YourCause/Blackbaud thus far.
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    Usability
    Benevity
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    Blackbaud
    The usability of CSRconnect is light years ahead of our last program and we are so thankful for this. Some of our employees get intimidated by using the computer so it is helpful when the site is user-friendly and welcoming for our employees. They are also easily able to find events in the portal.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Benevity
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    Blackbaud
    It is available when needed. It can be very slow at times.
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    Performance
    Benevity
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    Blackbaud
    We do have issues with having to reload pages when we are working on reports or engagement tiles. If we dont reload something the information that we have been working to input in to the site or the reports do not save. This can be frustrating when we are on time constraints
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    Support Rating
    Benevity
    Alaya's customer support is phenomenal - always there when we need them. And the platform has been so great for employee engagement - it's been very positive for our teams.The support provided by the team in preparation for the launch was fantastic - from guides to templates to responsiveness, Alaya'scustomer support made such a difference!
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    Blackbaud
    The implementation process was a bit rocky but ended up okay. The account manager is new and still learning himself so many of our questions are answered with "let me look into that and get back to you". He absolutely gets back to us and is very nice but not always very knowledgeable which can get frustrating.
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    Online Training
    Benevity
    No answers on this topic
    Blackbaud
    It was a little challenging doing training on line i think in person may have been a little easier. we also did training before we had access to certain things so when the time came to use that training we had questions that came up that were not apart of the initial training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Benevity
    No answers on this topic
    Blackbaud
    I wasn't involved in the decision to go with Your Cause but I came on as the implementation was happening. It was clunky at best but that was mostly due to our previous account rep not being in a role that suited his talents along with YC being new and us being a very large global company with lots of IT/HR challenges
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    Alternatives Considered
    Benevity
    Kudos, Fond Lattice are good software to conduct engagement activity and you can recognize hard work and show appreciation to others. Depending on your company you can redeem for awesome rewards. there all are software are goods but Navigation and engagement in our corporate volunteering program increased a lot with Alaya. More activities, great communication, great reporting! Alaya is user-friendly and straight-forward, in just a few click you register and are ready to do good through hundreds of associative propositions. and these are the main features which makes Alaya By Benevity to great amongst these software
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    Blackbaud
    When we chose YourCause it was because of the access to data and the fact that their CSR and Grant platforms "spoke" to each other. Also YourCause seemed to be more forward thinking and innovative. The fact that YourCause platform supported giving with so many countries/languages was impressive as we were expanding. Their platform for the end user was also significantly more advanced, easy to use and modern than others.
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    Scalability
    Benevity
    No answers on this topic
    Blackbaud
    It has worked for our large company fine.
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    Return on Investment
    Benevity
    • With corporate responsibility, we can make a difference for our employees, communities, and for our clients. Do it and use your skills to do good!
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    Blackbaud
    • We have been able to more accurately track global volunteerism.
    • Having an online platform for employees to organize their team volunteer projects has been wonderful. They are either doing more of them (we are so busy) or they were always doing all these activities but we are just finally aware of them because there is a platform to use now.
    • Reporting is not as flexible nor robust as we need it. Still doing many manual steps to get the data how we need it.
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    YourCause Screenshots

    Screenshot of CSRconnect is an Employee Engagement Platform for enterprise clients of all sizes, providing a hosted solution for a broad array of corporate community involvement programs and clients are able to manage and report the depth of their social impact and overall employee engagement.Screenshot of Grants ManagementScreenshot of NPO Portal - Free management of donated funds and volunteer information.