Benevity Partners with Give Blck to Raise Visibility and Support for Black-founded Nonprofits Across the U.S.

Benevity , Inc., the leading provider of global corporate purpose software, today announced that it has partnered with Give Blck , a new digital platform that raises visibility for Black-founded nonprofits across America. Through this relationship, Benevity is empowering its client community and their people to discover and support organizations focused on a range of issues impacting the Black community and benefiting society as a whole.

Give Blck was co-founded by two Black female entrepreneurs and leaders in the philanthropy space: Christina Lewis, founder and president of All Star Code, and Stephanie Ellis-Smith, owner of philanthropic advisory firm Phila Engaged Giving. Dr. David Setiadi, an entrepreneur and CTO of @Point of Care, is also a founder. Officially launched on September 24, 2020 with Benevity and Microsoft as partners, Give Blck helps donors easily identify Black-founded nonprofits in order to drive more dollars to underfunded causes that are helping to solve racial disparities.

From Oct. 18 to Nov. 7, Benevity is featuring six Give Blck Cause Categories on the main causes page of its employee engagement solution, Spark, so that users can learn about a range of Black-founded causes focused on Foundations and Giving Circles, Leadership, Tech Inclusion, Black Women and Girls, Black Boys and Black Male Achievements, and Healthy Black Lives and Mental Health. Benevity has also created campaign resource kits for corporate clients who are interested in promoting awareness of Black nonprofits, and in sustaining the momentum on racial equity and justice ignited by the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this year.

According to a June 16 article in Harvard Business Review , "achieving racial equity in the workplace will be one of the most important issues that companies will tackle in the coming decade," and Barrons reports that 64 percent of Business Roundtable CEOs released statements supporting action to end racial injustice.

Benevity's exclusive partnership with Give Blck is part of the company's overall commitment to furthering equity and inclusion both internally and throughout its client community. For more information about how companies and their people can take action to support racial justice and equity, check out Benevity's recent webinar on the topic.

About Giving Gap

Giving Gap is dedicated to ensuring sustained commitments to and elevating the visibility of local Black-led and Black-founded nonprofits serving Black communities. To date, over 1,400 organizations are part of its wide network across an array of sectors from Arts & Culture, Careers, Criminal Justice, Environment, Technology and more.

For additional details visit givinggap.org , Instagram and LinkedIn .

Benevity , a certified B Corporation, is the leader in global corporate purpose software, providing the only integrated suite of community investment and employee, customer and nonprofit engagement solutions. A finalist in Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, many iconic brands rely on Benevity's cloud solutions to power their purpose in ways that better attract, retain and engage today's diverse workforce, embed social action into their customer experiences and positively impact their communities. With software that is available in 20 languages, Benevity has processed more than 5 billion dollars in donations and 32 million hours of volunteering time, 210,000 positive actions and awarded one million grants to 251,000 nonprofits worldwide.

Co-founded by Christina Lewis, Stephanie Ellis-Smith and David Setiadi, Give Blck is a movement and website dedicated to increasing funding for Black organizations, to ensure "Giving Black" will not be a fleeting moment. There are roughly 200 organizations currently listed on the site. For additional details visit giveblck.org and @giveblck .