Better Impact

Better Impact approaches corporate volunteering from the volunteer-organisation side rather than the corporate side, and that changes the fit. Its flagship product, Volunteer Impact, is used by organisations that recruit and coordinate volunteers as a core activity, and the vendor reports 85,000 organisations using it and more than 500 million volunteer hours tracked. Corporate volunteering is offered as one of three solutions alongside volunteer management and volunteer centres, so a company using it gets tooling proven in high-volume volunteer coordination rather than an employee engagement app.

The functional scope reflects that. Recruitment, a volunteer database, scheduling, training, tracking, communications and a volunteer portal cover the full lifecycle of a volunteer rather than only participation in company events. Scheduling and hour tracking are the operational core, and the vendor states its purpose plainly as eliminating the spreadsheet juggling that costs organisations volunteers, which names the actual failure mode: volunteers drift away when coordination is manual and slow.

The list of organisation types it serves is unusually specific and signals depth in field conditions: universities and colleges, municipalities and cities, hospice care, state and national parks, parks and recreation departments, zoos and aquariums, hospitals and healthcare, Catholic Charities, animal shelters, food banks and hunger relief, churches, arts and culture organisations, master gardeners, museums, community event programmes, theatres and public media, plus Canadian organisations specifically. Operational commitments are stated as 24x5 human support and 99.997 percent software uptime, with ratings of 4.7 on G2 and 4.6 on Trustpilot. Interfaces are available in Spanish, French and Portuguese. Pricing is not published.