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# Benevity Overview

Benevity is the leader in global corporate purpose software, providing the only integrated suite of community investment and employee, customer and nonprofit engagement solutions. As a certified B Corporation, we are formally committed to a higher standard of using the power of business to solve social and environmental challenges. Our platform connects companies and their customers to nearly 2 million vetted nonprofits worldwide and, to date, Benevity has processed more than USD $7 billion in donations to over 300,000 charities.

# How the Benevity Platform Works

Benevity’s platform and donation fund disbursement model were designed with two goals in mind. First, to enable as many people as possible to easily find and donate to the causes of their choice. And second, to help people donate in a way that reduces the overall administrative burden for companies, donors and recipient nonprofits. To make this possible, there are two key elements that you should know about.

# Global Nonprofit Access

The first is our global database of nearly 2 million vetted nonprofits. The Benevity Cause Database is populated by local government registers, in-house vetting experts, and TechSoup Global – the leader in international charity vetting. Rigorous, layered vetting and fraud prevention ensure that funds are getting where they need to go and organizations are reputable.

# Efficient and Scalable Funds Disbursement

The second is our global network of Foundation Partners and their corresponding Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). Through these funds and the use of our technology platform, we are able to facilitate broad nonprofit choice, deliver real-time tax receipting and achieve greater frequency in distributions without applying donation thresholds or other restrictions that limit participation.

When a donor makes a contribution via the Benevity platform, they are donating to one of the donor-advised funds with the request that the foundation make a grant to the designated nonprofit. In turn, the foundation partner is able to provide a receipt for the donation immediately and grants the funds to the nonprofit in the next monthly disbursement cycle.  The single monthly disbursement minimizes overhead for both the foundation and for the nonprofit.

# Why use the Benevity API

Trust: On an ongoing basis, Benevity's rigorous vetting ensures funds only go to valid organizations. Vetting is conducted according to relevant local nonprofit standards and we are the only provider that offers this at scale. In addition, comprehensive ongoing fraud management controls — including continuous validation and transaction monitoring, provide layered protection so you can rest easy. With this level of comfort, it is no wonder why Benevity is trusted by the world's most iconic brands.

Scale:  Benevity allows you to scale your program to include nonprofits virtually anywhere in the world. Utilizing a proprietary disbursement process for the most reliable, efficient and accurate disbursement in the industry we can ensure funds get to where they need to go, regardless of borders.

Ease of use: Benevity's API follows the RESTful OpenAPI standard (opens new window), making it easy to get started and simple to maintain.

# Benevity API Solutions

# Customer Engagement

With our powerful and flexible API platform, you can integrate doing good into any digital customer experience. Enable nonprofit-of-choice donations, optional donation matching and charitable gift cards into any interface, making it easy to include giving on any payment page, banking application or online interaction.

# Cause Search API

The Cause Search API lets your users explore the expansive Benevity Cause Database using keywords, location, categories and more to find the nonprofits that they care about most. Finding and selecting a cause is the first step to making a donation. Check out the Cause Search guide here to get started.

# Giving API

The Benevity Giving API lets you integrate giving into all kinds of applications — including e-commerce, online banking, rewards programs, gift cards, dedicated giving sites and more — so you can empower your customers to donate to their nonprofit of choice (or one of your choosing) while they interact with your brand. You can check out the Giving API guide here to get started.

# Employee Engagement

# Spark API

The Spark API provides clients that are currently utilizing our Spark Employee Engagement platform to search and display Giving and Volunteering opportunities in other interfaces, such as an intranet page or via a communication tool integration, to broaden exposure of their Goodness Program. Check out the Spark API Guide to get started.

# Request access to our API

Ready to get started? You can start building into our giving platform today by requesting access (opens new window).

# Availability

We support 99.9% uptime. View our calendar of scheduled maintenance windows here and view our historical unscheduled downtime here (opens new window).