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Published 17 Mar 2023
Learn about corporate social responsibility and how having dedicated software for it can help you.
A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) software is a digital tool that companies use to track, manage, and improve their volunteer and social responsibility efforts with their immediate communities. On the business side, this software can also help with increasing brand awareness in the process.
Free version: Available for teams of up to 10
Pricing: Premium plan $19/month (with free 30-day trial period)
Platforms supported: Available on mobile app (iOS and Android) or a web-based software
SafetyCulture (formerly iAuditor) is a free mobile-ready corporate social responsibility software that can help companies to track their volunteerism efforts and identify problems along the way. SafetyCulture aims to help users streamline their tasks and empower teams and companies to act more efficiently in every aspect of their work.
As a multipurpose and multifunctional platform, SafetyCulture can help manage audits of corporate social responsibility initiatives with its free downloadable and editable checklists from its Public Library, ensuring your company and team achieve its relevant goals, live company values, and improve the quality of life for all. Similarly, you can also SafetyCulture to comply with your Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards in the process, as it also offers templates for it. After this, you can also integrate SafetyCulture with your existing workflow software for easier streamlining your daily business tasks.
Features:
Best For: All industries and company sizes
Pricing: Free for teams with ten members or less. The paid version starts at $19 a month with a 30-day free trial.
Reward your team or company’s environmentalism with trees from onHand. This corporate social responsibility software is backed by the UK government and aims to help users be more environmentally friendly by allowing them to watch their carbon footprint lessen in real-time and planting trees for every active member using onHand monthly.
Best For: Teams and companies focused on being environmentally-conscious
Pricing: Dependent on your organization’s needs.
Manage your volunteer program with corporate social responsibility software such as Golden. This software allows any organization and team to manage their volunteers, accomplish ESG goals, and publish white-label applications with one’s own brand and content.
Best For: Volunteer management
Pricing: Free plan available with limitations. Paid plans start at $110 per month for non-profits with a 30-day free trial. For companies and schools, plans will depend on their needs.
EdApp by SafetyCulture is a learning management system and corporate social responsibility software you can use to provide learning and development opportunities for your team and company about proper ESG compliance, volunteerism, and sustainability. EdApp has partnered with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to create mobile lessons on social responsibility and development for all to create a more sustainable and socially-aware world.
Best For: Learning and development
Pricing: Free plan available with limitations. Paid plans start at $2.95 per user per month with a 30-day free trial.
Retain your top talents and create more impactful social and business incomes with Benevity. Working as an employee engagement and corporate social responsibility software, Benevity aims to improve engagement among workers by helping them work and volunteer together in creating a more sustainable society. Benevity has more than 2 million nonprofit organizations in its system, ensuring everyone can have a social cause they can contribute to.
Best For: Managing both employee engagement and social responsibility
Connect your team or company with causes that matter to them with a corporate social responsibility software called Bright Funds. Search through millions of volunteer opportunities for yourself and your organization as needed, and track your progress and successes in the software. Bright Funds also supports financial philanthropic endeavors, providing tools to manage grants, scholarships, disaster relief efforts, and more.
Best For: Managing and providing grants for corporate social responsibility efforts
Pricing: Free trial available. Paid plans start at $2 per user per month.
Millie is a corporate social responsibility software designed to gamify the act of charitable giving and volunteering. A flexible software program that works depending on your budget, Millie promises to match your employees to groups and causes that matter to your company remotely or in person. Millie also hopes to make the act of volunteering fun by encouraging employees in a company to vote for their favorite nonprofit organizations with donations much like a game show, with proceeds being donated proportionally.
Best For: Gamifying volunteerism
Pricing: Free for teams with 25 members and less. Paid plans start at $64 per month.
By definition, corporate social responsibility refers to the efforts done by a company to be socially accountable to itself, its clients, the public, and its environment. Sometimes called “corporate citizenship,” corporate social responsibility helps companies stay conscious of its impact on society in all ways possible, including but not limited to its effect on society, the environment, and the people around them. In the process, making a beneficial impact on society also improves brand image and recall.
The main goal of having corporate social responsibility software is to ensure that a company is not contributing negatively to its society and is instead trying to better it. The most common forms of corporate social responsibility include philanthropy, volunteerism, and more. For this reason, the most well-known use of corporate social responsibility software is tracking and managing company efforts for volunteerism, environmentalism, and sustainable living.
Corporate social responsibility software can help with the following:
Some key features of good corporate social responsibility software to remember are:
Here is a table comparing what the best software is for you, depending on your needs:
Corporate Social Responsibility Software
Best For
Free Version?
Price
SafetyCulture (formerly iAuditor)
All industries and company sizes
Yes, for teams with ten members or less
Starts at $19 a month with a 30-day free trial
onHand
Teams and companies focused on being environmentally-conscious
N/A
Dependent on your organization’s needs
Golden
Volunteer management
Yes, with limitations
Starts at $110 per month for non-profits with a 30-day free trial
EdApp by SafetyCulture
Learning and training
Starts at $2.95 per user per month with a 30-day free trial
Benevity
Managing both employee engagement and social responsibility
Bright Funds
Managing and providing grants for corporate social responsibility efforts
Yes, a free trial is available
Starts at $2 per user per month
Millie
Gamifying volunteerism
Yes, for teams with 25 members and less
Starts at $64 per month
Roselin Manawis
Roselin Manawis is a content writer and researcher for SafetyCulture. She has experience in news writing and content marketing across different fields of discipline. Her background in Communication Arts enables her to leverage multimedia and improve the quality of her work. She also contributed as a research assistant for an international study and as a co-author for two books in 2020. With her informative articles, she aims to ignite digital transformation in workplaces around the world.
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