About Our Volunteer Management, Service-Learning Platform

2012

GivePulse was founded in Austin, TX.

100,000+

groups have since been helped, bringing people of all walks of life together to make a social change.

10,000,000+

impact hours have been recorded across the US.

Our Mission

Enabling everyone to list, find, coordinate, and measure their impact in the community. Our mission is to enable everyone in the world to participate and engage in lifting their community to new heights. We do so by providing a platform to list, find, organize and measure the impact of service and volunteerism in the community. It starts with one volunteer to build an army that will help improve the world.

Our Features

Manage Memberships

Centralize management of active and inactive memberships, determine who is pending, restrict access to certain individuals and groups

Collect metrics and data on goals

Collaborate with community partners, approve and edit submitted projects, events and opportunities

Relationship management database

Manage all the interactions, relationships and data of your members, partners, and departments in your community. The database grows as your needs and data grows. We also can work with you to integrate with other databases like Salesforce or SugarCRM

Curate and List any Event & Opportunity

Select, create and/or filter opportunities that align with your mission, group, department, school and business

Reporting & Insights

Insights and advanced reporting lets you analyze all the data collected. Partner with us to help make sense of your data so we can move the needle together

Manage Impact

Allow individuals in one place to track their impact, hours, reflections and for you to report on special initiatives

Check Volunteers in Digitally with Mobile

Digitally clock-in/out or sign-in volunteers and placements on your laptop or mobile device via the web (we also have a downloadable iOS app)

Communication & Messaging Platform

Communicate with your members and advocates. Message specific individuals, volunteers, groups in a specific a shift, event or a program

Assessment, Survey & Custom fields

Ask Pre and Post Questions and Surveys, collect t-shirt size, food requirements, phone numbers and any additional surveys for your events, opportunities and programs

Pricing

We have different pricing options available for any type of group. Here are our prices for nonprofits: Get more information about our pricing for Events, Higher Education, and Enterprises on our Pricing page.

Pricing page

Press

Without you, our story doesn't get told. We've come a long way, and there's a lot of growth ahead of us. Get information about who we are, and where we're headed.

See our media resources

Kxan: City of Austin enters partnership with GivePulse...

Sunday Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced the City of Austin’s new partnership with the Austin Group GivePulse. With this partnership, citizens of Austin are able to find different groups... more

Albuquerque Journal: Austin leftovers recycled to feed the hungry

Managing volunteers through the Austin-based website GivePulse, the organization has become much more efficient in getting food picked up and delivered... more

The Whitehouse: Technology-Enabled Volunteers Ending Hunger and Food Waste in Austin

George Luc is being honored as a Champion of Change for applying his tech skills for civic good... more

Company

Although we were officially founded in 2012, George likes to think that the idea of GivePulse dates back to his childhood. He has a story about weed (the crabgrass kind), working with people with disabilities, the Virginia Tech Massacre and many more defined him as an individual. His first small nonprofit helped high schools fix random technology problems. Through these experiences he came to identify a formula: 30min + $30 = College Education. Specifically, if he and his friends were able to donate 30 minutes to volunteer and install a $30 router, it would provide wifi access to impoverished neighborhoods with children looking to apply and learn more about college.

This formula set in motion a determination to address digital access, and quickly evolved into a platform to scale volunteerism and service learning.

In 2012, George Luc set out to build a platform. Together with his CTO and co-founder, James McGirr, GivePulse was born, a civic network matching people in our community with causes they care about while enabling easy organization, management and mobilization of volunteers and supporters.

From day one our mission has been to solve tough social problems through the use of technology. Keeping true to that original mission, today our civic engagement platform supports thousands of nonprofits, associations, institutions, businesses and organizations.

George Luc

Chief Civic Evangelist

A community activist, technologist, user experience and design professional. George has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech with an emphasis in Human Computer Interaction. He spent much of his early career developing technology for people with disabilities and has worked with companies like Daylert, IBM, ESO Solutions and HomeAway. He serves as a board member of City of Austin Volunteer & Service, Austin Convention Center and Visitor’s Bureau, KLRU (Local PBS) Advisory Board, Open Door Preschool, and was a City Commissioner for Austin Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities. George is a TEDxAustin speaker, SXSW Dewey Honoree, and he and GivePulse have recently been honored for their work as White House Champions for Change.

James McGirr

Chief Civic Hacker

A community volunteer and technologist. He has a BS in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University and studied Computer Science in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. James co-founded the startup Flocasts which is a social network and portal for sports, including Track and Field, Wrestling, Swimming, and Gymnastics. After Flocasts, James joined Epicom, a leading CRM consulting, development and integration firm where he spent three years before joining GivePulse.

Contact

Product Support
Have a question for our support team? Give us a call or visit our Support Center.

Press
We're always up for a conversation. If you have a press inquiry, we'd love to talk. press@givepulse.com

Sales & Support
(512) 765-5145

Email
support@givepulse.com

At Walmart, engaging in our local communities is an important part of our culture. Working with GivePulse and its partner, Network for Good, WalmartGivesNWA will take place from June 8th to August 23rd. During this time, Walmart will match charitable contributions for eligible donations and volunteer hours serving eligible Northwest Arkansas nonprofits, subject to the below guidelines.

	VOLUNTEERISM: Walmart will make a grant through GivePulse matching eligible volunteer hours by community members or associates equal to $10 in honor of each volunteer hour, up to a maximum total volunteer matching amount of $1,000,000. Details on eligibility of volunteer hours are below.

	ASSOCIATE DONATION: Walmart will match completed eligible donations made by associates through GivePulse on a 2:1 basis during the WalmartGivesNWA timeframe, up to a maximum total donation matching amount of $1,000,000. Details on eligibility of matching donations are below.

Learn more at WalmartGivesNWA Support Portal

El Paso Volunteer Guidelines At Walmart, engaging in our local communities is an important part of our culture. Working with GivePulse and its partner, Network for Good, we aim to enable community members and associates to connect with causes they care about and to promote community cohesion in El Paso. We will make charitable contributions for eligible volunteer hours serving eligible El Paso nonprofits, subject to the below guidelines from November 14th through December 31st, 2019.

	VOLUNTEERISM: Walmart will make a grant through GivePulse matching eligible volunteer hours by associates equal to $10/volunteer hour and equal to $5/volunteer hour for community members. Details on eligibility of volunteer hours are below.
The total volunteer matching maximum is $500,000. Walmart will not make additional matching grants for volunteer hours once the matching maximum has been reached. Period and Deadlines Volunteers may request a match in the Givepulse system starting on November 14th through December 31st at 11:59 pm (Mountain Time). Nonprofit organizations will have until January 10th at 11:59 pm (Mountain Time) to complete the matching grant verification process. Matching grant verifications that are not completed by the nonprofit by January 10th at 11:59 pm (Mountain Time) will not be eligible to receive a matching grant.