# Employee giving and volunteering for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "employee giving and volunteering platform" and as "corporate social responsibility platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories. Page: https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-giving-and-volunteering/smb/

**Standing:** Selflessly leads with 43% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 54 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selflessly | 43% | 0% | 53 |
| 2 | Millie | 17% | 3% | 39 |
| 3 | Uncommon Giving | 7% | 3% | 34 |
| 4 | POINT | 6% | 15% | 20 |
| 5 | Groundswell | 2% | 22% | 23 |
| 6 | OnHand | 2% | 18% | 11 |
| 7 | Percent Pledge | 0% | 8% | 13 |
| 8 | Chezuba | 0% | 30% | 10 |
| 9 | Goodera | 0% | 30% | 10 |
| 10 | YourCause | 0% | 69% | 26 |
| 11 | Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform | 0% | 89% | 45 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Deed; alternatives Millie, Selflessly
- GPT-5.4 mini: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Millie
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Selflessly; alternatives Millie, POINT, Uncommon Giving
- Perplexity Sonar: Selflessly; alternatives Deed
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Selflessly; alternatives POINT, Uncommon Giving, VolunteerHub
- Mistral Small: Selflessly; alternatives Goodera, StratusLIVE
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Selflessly; alternatives Bright Funds, GoodCompany, Groundswell, Millie
- Llama 4 Maverick: Stratus; alternatives Bonterra, Causecast, Goodera, Selflessly
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Millie; alternatives Selflessly, Stratus Live
- Kimi K2: Millie, Selflessly
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Selflessly; alternatives Bonusly, Double the Donation, Uncommon Giving
- MiniMax M2.5: Millie, Submittable; alternatives Groundswell, Selflessly
- GPT-6 Luna: Selflessly; alternatives Millie, YourCause
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Millie, Selflessly

## Sources the answers cite

79 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- uncommongiving.com: 58 answers, 119 citations
- bonterratech.com: 53 answers, 79 citations
- g2.com: 44 answers, 80 citations
- stratuslive.com: 42 answers, 42 citations
- yourcause.com: 33 answers, 42 citations
- worldmetrics.org: 31 answers, 40 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 30 answers, 31 citations
- guideflow.com: 25 answers, 32 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/csr-software (45 answers)
- https://stratuslive.com/blog/7-best-workplace-giving-platforms (42 answers)
- https://bonterratech.com/blog/corporate-giving-platforms (35 answers)
- https://bonterratech.com/blog/charitable-giving-software (33 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-csr-software (28 answers)
- https://worldmetrics.org/best/employee-volunteering-software (25 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/corporate-volunteering-software (18 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/corporate-volunteering-platform (17 answers)
- https://blog.betterimpact.com/en/best-csr-software (16 answers)
- https://selflessly.io/ (15 answers)

## Warned against

- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 40 of 45 labels negative. "Why to avoid/caution: Benevity is widely considered the industry giant, but it is notorious for being difficult for small businesses to use effectively." (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- YourCause: 18 of 26 labels negative. "Blackbaud Employee Giving / YourCause / CSRconnect ... The suite is sold via custom enterprise contracts. Pricing is custom, implementation heavy" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Groundswell: 5 of 23 labels negative. "its volunteering component is not as developed as other established tools. Small businesses needing a full-featured volunteering solution may find it lacking." (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Bonterra CyberGrants: 3 of 3 labels negative. "Bonterra CyberGrants and other full-suite grantmaking platforms ... Listed as custom pricing with comprehensive data tracking & reporting." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://hr-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://hr-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, hr-ai-index.com.