RW Institute is conducting the second edition of our independent technology review. We're evaluating the platforms that power corporate social impact, from volunteer management to grants administration to employee giving. No vendor pays to be included. No one pays to be excluded.
The 2023 review was the first of its kind: an independent evaluation of every major platform in the corporate volunteering, giving and grants space. The 2026 edition goes further.
Every vendor gets the same survey. Every response goes through the same evaluation framework. Where vendors haven't completed their survey, we fill in what's publicly available and flag the gaps. The goal is to give CSR practitioners a clear, comparable picture of what each platform actually does, not what the marketing site says it does.
Every platform now claims to be "AI-powered." That phrase tells practitioners almost nothing. So we built a three-tier classification framework that separates surface-level automation from genuine machine learning from generative AI capabilities. The framework evaluates what the technology actually does, not what the vendor calls it.
We also pre-filled each vendor's survey using public data and information from the 2023 edition. Vendors are reviewing and correcting, not starting from scratch. An AI assistant embedded in the survey answers questions about methodology and scoring in real time.
The following solutions have been invited to participate and are at various stages of the survey process. This list updates as vendors confirm. If your platform should be here and isn't, contact us at techreview@rw.institute.
If your solution helps companies manage volunteering, giving, or grants and you're not on our list, we want to hear from you.
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