Benevity

“The success of our program reflects the strong commitment of our team members and demonstrates how together we can drive meaningful, lasting impact in the communities where we live and work.”

“Benevity enables our employees to give and earn volunteer rewards through access to millions of nonprofits globally. It allows us to localize and scale our program - from new-hire seeding, donation matching, to tracking acts of kindness hours, while enabling 55+ Ciena Cares Champions to create and manage opportunities through a single, unified platform.”

“Benevity has enabled us to efficiently manage organizational grants, understand community needs, evaluate impacts, identify gaps and develop solutions to address those gaps.”

“It was the patience, thoughtful and methodical approach of our Benevity Sales and Implementation teams that helped us realize that a successful transition was not only possible – it was necessary for us to continue to grow and drive the impact that we wanted.”

“Benevity has helped us create programming employees can count on — in good times and hard times.”

“What sets Benevity apart is their solution-based mindset. We’ve brought them unique challenges — from supporting a dispersed and diverse workforce to finding creative program workarounds — and they’ve always shown up as true partners, helping us make the system work for our people. Not every vendor is this thoughtful or flexible.”

“Give Forward and Benevity have given us the opportunity to think big. Now we can enable our colleagues' Goodness and allow them to bring out their purpose in terms of how they support their community.”

“It was important for us to identify overarching program goals and objectives and select a platform to support them. Flexibility was also something that was critical during the transition process because the Benevity team was tasked with challenging the status quo and providing innovative ways of engaging our colleagues.”

“When you invest in your impact measurement, when you think really strategically about the outcomes you're trying to accomplish through your charitable investments, you create a program that is really resilient in times of change.”

“We channeled the chaos into opportunity and built a data-driven framework using Benevity’s full suite. Their tools helped us unify global giving, streamline compliance and democratize data across our regional councils and ambassador networks. For the first time, we had real-time insights to make smart decisions, scale engagement and connect our work to business outcomes.”

“Benevity has really helped us scale our campaigns and our community reach, it's helped us feel more confident in trying new things.”

“We knew we wanted a granting process that was as streamlined and easy as possible… to establish ourselves as a good neighbour, a business that cares.”

“We’ve achieved 12 months of impact in just six, and the levels of engagement are continuing to grow. We’re going to deliver a record year and set up an incredible foundation for the next phase of Iress Impact. Benevity’s platform, our CSM, and our people’s generosity have made that possible.”

“Benevity gave us more than a platform — it gave us momentum. With Reporting Studio, seeding campaigns, and support from our CSM, we were able to scale the program globally, run it with limited resources, and really grow excitement and engagement.”

“We use Benevity to promote the individual ways that you can use your volunteer hours outside of the scheduled events.”

“Whenever we have campaigns like this we utilise the Benevity platform…featuring all the volunteer opportunities there so they’re easily accessible and people know if the opportunity is near them.”

“Benevity's platform was helping in mobilising all those people, signing them up all for different events and shifts that were happening around the same time.”