Employee Volunteer Management

SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility helps to transform how good companies can empower their employees through workplace volunteering initiatives. Gain a better pulse on how engaged your people are and measure the collective impact they are delivering to your communities.

Matching Gifts

Make the matched giving experience even easier and rewarding for your employees with a streamlined, easy-to-administer program that follows your guidelines and matching ratios. Accessible from any browser, it’s a breeze for employees to keep a record of their gifts and track remaining matching funds from anywhere.

Configure scholarship and award application forms to suit your unique goals

Remove the complexity of administering your employee volunteer grants or Dollars for Doers program. Enable your employees and retirees with a seamless process to easily log and track their contributions to eligible nonprofits they have volunteers for.

Fundraising & Donation Management

Inspire your employees to give back to the communities you are a part of, and drive your collective contributions for a greater good. Simplify launching, promoting, and measuring your company’s fundraising efforts in any language or currency.

Goals Tracking

SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility’s Goals Tracking capability is entirely unique, enabling you to adopt industry-standard frameworks like the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or your own for tracking progress on your collective impact. Define the goals that matter to your organization most across all your corporate and employee giving, grantmaking, and volunteerism efforts.

Reporting your impact

Aggregate data across employee giving programs to capture the full impact of your collective efforts by cause, type, region, department, and more.

• Build custom reports that can pull any data point within Engage
• Visualize all your giving data on dashboards, interactive charts, and maps
• Push your employee giving data easily into business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI for even further analysis

Better engage your employees through their favorite causes

Deliver a unique volunteering experience to your people and inspire them to be agents of change for the causes they are most passionate about.

• Create rich employee profiles with their skills, preferences, and interested cause areas
• Employees can easily search and apply for filtered opportunities best aligning with their interests, skills, cause, global goal, and more
• Log volunteer hours and track participation history from a personalized, branded employee portal accessible from any web browser.
• Empower employees to share stories and photos about their volunteer experiences to inspire others to participate
• Encourage suggestions for future volunteer causes and nonprofits to offer opportunities for

Create a streamlined volunteer experience for more impact

Monitor volunteer contributions in real-time and generate the insightful reports you need to evaluate employee engagement and their impact.

• Create, review, and approve volunteer activities with as much or as little control as needed, while seamlessly matching volunteers with the right opportunities
• Track and validate employee volunteer hours contributed, whether completed in-person or virtually through video conferencing
• Keep engaging your employees year round with featured volunteer events and campaigns
• Enable community partners to promote approved volunteer opportunities through your employee portals and corporate website

Capture meaningful insights from analytics and reporting

Aggregate data across employee giving programs to capture the full impact of your volunteering efforts by cause, type, region, department, and more.

• Build custom reports that can pull any data point within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Visualize all your giving data on dashboards, interactive charts, and maps
• Push your employee giving data easily into business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI for even further analysis

Simplify matching your employee’s gifts to eligible causes

Drive engagement with your employees, and even retirees, with a simple, intuitive giving experience that is tailored to your program’s unique guidelines and matching criteria.

• Search for organizations eligible for matching by location, cause area or match ratio and submit request funds to be matched
• Quickly upload and access proof of donations that are eligible for matching within a branded, easy-to-use employee portal
• Securely keep track of available, used, and remaining funds for matching from any web browser
• Encourage employees to submit suggestions for future matched causes and charities

Administer your matching program more efficiently

Reduce the amount of time spent on administration and streamline how you match employee gifts through automation within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility.

• Easily manage matching ratios, guidelines, and limits for eligible causes and preferred nonprofit partners
• Launch and promote matched giving challenges for urgent causes in times of emergency, crisis or disaster
• Vet matching gift requests with eligible and featured organizations, as well as new causes suggested by employees
• Save administrative time with automated workflows to approve matching requests and deploy communications

Capture meaningful insights from analytics and reporting

Aggregate data across your matching gifts program to capture the full impact of you and your employee’s contributions by cause, match amount, region, department, and more.

• Build custom reports that can pull any data point within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Visualize all your matched giving data on dashboards, interactive charts, and maps
• Push your matching gifts data easily into business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI for even further analysis

Tailor Engage to your Dollars for Doers program guidelines

Shape SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility’s functionality to help you more effectively manage every aspect of your Dollars for Doers program, no matter how unique.

• Build, adapt, and change your employee volunteer grants program eligibility and ratios as needed, all from SmartSimple Cloud’s native settings
• Configure engaging, easy-to-navigate portals for employees to report their volunteer hours and track contributions to eligible causes
• Manage global Dollars for Doers programs by tracking volunteer awards in over 60 international currencies
• Empower your people to share their volunteering stories with colleagues to highlight successes and inspire more to participate

Configure scholarship and award application forms to suit your unique goals

From Higher Education institutions to foundations, SmartSimple Cloud for Scholarship Management can be configured to address the specific needs of your application process, no matter how complex or unique they may be.

• Choose from a multitude of field types, each with its own settings and safeguards
• Access robust search and filtering tools to build out your application process to be more efficient to get funds out faster
• Send automated communications to your applicants, staff, and reviewers so they’re always kept informed
• Higher Education institutions can choose to integrate with other department, faculty, and campus systems to keep everyone aligned using the same solution

Communicate more effectively

Build strong, lasting relationships with donors and bring focus to your fundraising campaigns

• Reach out to your entire constituent community easily with broadcast email
• Streamline your communications with pre-built email templates that you can customize and build
• Collect rich, profile information on donors and track all communications with every constituent
• Keep donors informed throughout the donation process with custom, automated notifications

Plan fundraising campaigns and events more efficiently

Manage all campaign logistics from one central place so you can focus on the business of running effective fundraising campaigns

• Create new fundraising campaigns in minutes
• Empower your employees to submit campaign proposals
• Manage vendor relationships, tasks and related expenses
• Create exportable reports that show campaign success

Capture meaningful insights from analytics and reporting

Capture the true impact of your fundraising campaigns.

• Build custom reports that can pull any data point in SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility and represent them visually through interactive charts.
• Track all fundraising data and constituent information that can be pushed into BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI.

Simplify the logistics of all your in-kind contributions

Manage all your in-kind gift requests at scale with the efficiency and accuracy you need.

• Quickly build robust, dynamic, and branded application forms
• Effortlessly share and assign proposals as they are submitted
• Control all your in-kind donation data in one, centralized location
• Manage inventories, services available, delivery dates, and more

Provide an easy, intuitive applicant experience

Give those requesting and receiving in-kind contributions a tailored and more seamless fulfilment process that also minimizes administrative headaches.

• Keep every applicant up-to-date on the status of their in-kind requests with easy to-use, personalized portals
• Send automated notifications to update status on shipments or services delivered
• Offer mobile-friendly access from any browser

See a complete picture of your in-kind giving impact

Aggregate data across your in-kind programs to capture the full impact of your contributions by contribution type, cause area, region, and more.

• Calculate and report the financial value of in-kind goods and services delivered
• Build custom reports that can pull any data point within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Visualize all your giving data on dashboards, interactive charts, and maps
• Push your giving and grantee data easily into business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI for even further analysis

Streamline sponsorship proposals with the power of automation

• Quickly build robust, dynamic, and branded application forms
• Effortlessly share and assign proposals as they are submitted
• Control all your sponsorship data in one central place
• Invite collaborators and manage as many user roles as needed
• Set up automatic payments via a payment scheduler that can be triggered by workflows
• Speed up your review process with automated workflows that be customized to the way you work
• Manage charitable and business sponsorships separately

Manage sponsored events more effectively

• Track event spend and drill down to metrics like cost per head
• Manage event budgets and track vendor expenses
• Streamline communications with automated or ad hoc broadcast emails
• Build registration forms and track attendance centrally within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Collect dietary restrictions and other relevant details on attendee profiles

Effectively track the true ROI of your sponsorships

Aggregate data across your portfolio to capture the full impact of your sponsorships by cause area, type, region, and more

• Track any measurement objective for calculating sponsorship ROI
• Drill down into expense data for a complete picture of your sponsorship spend
• Build custom reports that can pull any data point within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility
• Visualize all your giving data on dashboards, interactive charts, and maps
• Push your giving program data easily into business intelligence tools like Tableau and PowerBI for even further analysis

Demonstrate true compassion and care for your employees

A leading way to distribute EAFs is through an external nonprofit partner that increases the flexibility of what hardships the fund can cover and lowers the administrative burden to the employer and the employee.

• Using America's Charities’ 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, we can provide flexibility and tax advantageous options for employers and affected employees
• Decades of experience in corporate relationships, customer service, and funds management ensures that your EAF is managed professionally

Launch an EAF tailored to your corporate values

Each EAF is uniquely designed to the parameters and qualifications provided by your company, ensuring it closely aligns with your values and culture. We offer a number of services you can take advantage of:

• Complete EAF program design and development
• Online application design and generation of documentation requirements
• Application review and follow-up
• Grant approval
• Distribution of assistance funds
• Regular reporting of fund activity
• On-demand employee support
• Overall program facilitation
• Easy integration into your workplace giving, employee engagement or wellness programs

Combined with 40+ years of inspiring charitable choice

SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility is more than just software. It seamlessly blends together with the extensive expertise of Americas’ Charities helping companies meet their employee giving and engagement goals, with SmartSimple’s cloud platform – SmartSimple Cloud – preferred by over 350 leading organizations worldwide.

Standardized units of measurement

Whether you track dollars granted, matched, raised, or hours volunteered, SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility standardizes your units of measure across all your programs to enable reporting a single, aggregated metric. SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility has the flexibility to use industry standard wage equivalencies or your own unique measurement criteria to convert all your efforts, such as volunteer hours, into dollar figures.

Configurable dashboards that bring your numbers to life

Empower all your stakeholders, employees, and applicants with interactive, data-driven dashboards to summarize the metrics that matter to them most. With the ability to drill down into real-time CSR program data, every contributor in your company’s impact will be kept informed and feel united in accomplishing your ambitious goals.

Map your collective impact and zoom in on every contribution

Powered by Google Maps, SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility’s powerful and interactive Impact Map enables you to visualize all your contributions using geotags and see all your giving efforts are going to. Filter by cause, giving type, and date, you can geotag all your company’s efforts while sharing specifics like dollars granted, number of participants, and much more. The possibilities are endless.

Track the metrics most important to the goals you’ve set

Implement your own goals for more effective and relevant outcomes measurement across your entire organization and giving programs. Whether it's cubic meters of water saved, number of trees planted, or pounds of food donated, SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility can track and report on any unique metric needed to measure the outcomes that matter to you and your stakeholders most. 

Configurable reporting for visualizing your progress

Every data point within SmartSimple Cloud for Corporate Social Responsibility can be reported on, enabling you with access to meaningful metrics to measure your responsibility and giving goals against. Our Neo Report Builder’s drag-and-drop interface empowers your team to create highly detailed and complex reports that will cut to the heart of the metrics you’re looking for.

Connect your data across your organization’s footprint

Seamlessly feed your giving and goal data into other enterprise systems and software like Excel. For more sophisticated analysis, you can effortlessly pull your data into business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau with our SmartConnect API and OData (Open Data Protocol) connectors.