GivePulse
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) software
Corporate volunteering platforms
Volunteer management software
Nonprofit software
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- Ease of management
- Quality of support
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- Market presence
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What is GivePulse
GivePulse is a community engagement platform used to publish volunteer opportunities, manage event sign-ups, track volunteer hours, and collect impact data. It is used by nonprofits, universities, municipalities, and employers running employee volunteering and community programs. The product combines opportunity listings with volunteer profiles, hour logging, and reporting, and it can support both open community volunteering and organization-specific programs.
Volunteer opportunity marketplace
GivePulse supports public listings of volunteer opportunities and events, which can help organizations attract volunteers beyond an internal employee base. It provides volunteer-facing discovery, registration, and communication workflows. This is useful for programs that need both community recruitment and structured participation tracking.
Hours and participation tracking
The platform includes volunteer profiles, hour logging, and participation records tied to opportunities and events. Organizations can use these records for program reporting and recognition workflows. This aligns well with volunteering-centric use cases where participation data is the primary system of record.
Multi-organization program support
GivePulse is commonly used in ecosystems where multiple organizations coordinate opportunities (for example, campuses or local communities). It supports managing opportunities across organizations and aggregating engagement data at a program level. This can reduce fragmentation compared with running separate tools for each participating group.
CSR scope may be limited
GivePulse is primarily oriented around volunteering and community engagement rather than end-to-end CSR management. Organizations that need broader ESG/CSR capabilities (such as supplier assessments, sustainability metrics, or formal CSR reporting frameworks) may require additional systems. As a result, it may not serve as a single system for all CSR program types.
Donation and grantmaking depth varies
Compared with platforms built primarily for corporate giving operations, GivePulse’s depth for complex donation workflows, matching, approvals, and grantmaking may be more limited depending on the configuration. Organizations with heavy financial disbursement controls may need integrations or complementary tools. Fit depends on whether volunteering is the dominant program motion.
Integration requirements for enterprises
Larger employers often require integrations with HRIS/SSO, identity management, and data warehouses for governance and analytics. GivePulse can require additional implementation work to align with enterprise security and reporting standards. Buyers should validate available APIs, SSO options, and data export capabilities against internal requirements.
Plan & Pricing
Nonprofits & Events (tiered)
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free (no credit card required) | 1 admin; core features; limited fields/subgroups; list opportunities; ability to process donations and ticketed events (basic functionality). (Official site states a Basic tier and notes no credit card required.) |
| Give Joy | $20.00 per month (when billed annually; reflects a 20% discount) | 2 admins; 1 subgroup; unlimited volunteers; surveys; private events; fundraising; ticketing; volunteer applications; waivers; custom fields; user tags; advanced registration; event submissions. |
| Give Together | $100.00 per month (when billed annually; reflects a 20% discount) | All Give Joy features plus 10 admins; 10 subgroups; administrative fields; onboarding meeting; API; saved reports; insights & data tools; group reservation management. |
| Give More | $170.00 per month (when billed annually; reflects a 20% discount) | All Give Joy & Give Together features plus 10 admins; 25 subgroups; whitelabeling; email templates; custom subdomain; tagging logic; custom integrations; prioritized support & consultation; unlimited advanced user roles. |
| Department | Contact Sales | Custom number of admins/subgroups; SSO; OAuth with Google; LTI; onboarding; other enterprise features. |
| Enterprise | Contact Sales | Full enterprise features (custom admins/subgroups, SSO, whitelabeling, prioritized support, reservation management, grants, applications, custom integrations). |
Businesses / Corporate (CSR) pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Silver | $1.00 per employee / month (when billed annually) | 2 admins; 2 ERGs; core features; surveys; private events; fundraising; ticketing; applications; grants; OAuth with Google. |
| Gold | Contact Sales | Custom admins/ERGs; includes onboarding, API, integrations, calendar & video conferencing integration, etc. |
| Platinum | Contact Sales | Enterprise-level corporate package (SSO, whitelabeling, reservation management, prioritized support, additional modules). |
Higher Education
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Platinum | $1.75 per FTE / year | Custom admins/subgroups; SSO; OAuth with Google; whitelabeling; LTI; event templates; administrative fields; internships; API; email templates; custom subdomain; video conferencing integration. |
| Department / Enterprise | Contact Sales | Department-level or enterprise pricing and features. |
Add-ons & transaction fees (official support docs)
- Payment / donation processing: GivePulse service fee: 1.0% + $0.99 per ticket (ticketed events) and 1.0% per donation. Credit-card processing via Stripe: listed as ~3.4% + $0.30 per transaction (Stripe fees noted on GivePulse support pages). Add-on integrations (Salesforce, Raiser's Edge, etc.), domain masking/white-labeling, additional admins/subgroups available as paid add-ons or via contact/sales.
Seller details
GivePulse, Inc.
Atlanta, GA, USA (reported)
Private
https://www.givepulse.com/
https://x.com/givepulse
https://www.linkedin.com/company/givepulse/
