# Civic Champs

> Civic Champs is a nonprofit-focused SaaS company that replaces volunteer spreadsheets, paper sign-in sheets, waiver folders, and scattered email chains with one web-and-mobile system for recruiting, onboarding, scheduling, check-ins, communications, hour tracking, and impact reporting. Its sharpest idea is not another database: it is capturing reliable data at the moment a volunteer actually shows up, then making that data useful for grant reports, retention, and donor relationships.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Zionsville, Indiana, United States
- **Founders:** Geng Wang (Co-founder and CEO), Michael Jeffery (Co-founder and CTO), Ryan Underdahl (Co-founder and former COO)
- **Team size:** 2-10 employees publicly listed; supplied company data says 8
- **Products:** Civic Champs Volunteer Management, Kiosk and mobile check-in, Helping Hands, Microdonations, Mentoring Works
- **Notable:** Regional winner of the Elevate Nexus pitch competition, receiving $80,000 in 2020., MassChallenge Gold Award winner and Techstars portfolio company., One of 10 winners selected from more than 400 concepts in the 2021 OpenIDEO and Gates Foundation Reimagine Charitable Giving Challenge.

## Products & services

- **Civic Champs Volunteer Management** — A web dashboard and mobile app for recruiting, onboarding, scheduling, volunteer profiles, waivers, communications, event registration, check-ins, hour tracking, feedback, analytics, and exports.
- **Kiosk and mobile check-in** — Multiple on-site and mobile paths for recording attendance, including location-aware prompts, a shared kiosk, admin check-in, and registration-based tracking.
- **Helping Hands** — A pandemic-response program that matched volunteers with higher-risk community members who needed help with daily tasks.
- **Microdonations** — A volunteer-facing donation feature designed to turn engagement into small gifts; it won an OpenIDEO and Gates Foundation challenge in 2021.
- **Mentoring Works** — A separate platform for mentoring programs to match participants, schedule and track meetings, collect reflections, and monitor relationship progress.

## Achievements

- Regional winner of the Elevate Nexus pitch competition, receiving $80,000 in 2020.
- MassChallenge Gold Award winner and Techstars portfolio company.
- One of 10 winners selected from more than 400 concepts in the 2021 OpenIDEO and Gates Foundation Reimagine Charitable Giving Challenge.
- Won $150,000 in non-dilutive prize money by late 2020, including awards from MassChallenge, UpPrize, the CLAPP Competition, and INTAP.
- Grew from 23 nonprofit customers in 2019 to more than 60 in 2020 and now reports hundreds of nonprofit customers across 40+ states and Canada.
- Released its largest product update to date in July 2025, adding bulk registration and major changes to events, opportunities, applications, and registrations.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Civic Champs released an app update after users reported crashes when opening volunteer opportunities.
- **2025-06** — The company published new planning and product education focused on full-lifecycle volunteer management and nonprofit-first software.
- **2025-07** — Version 2025.7.1 shipped after delays, introducing bulk registration and substantial changes to events, opportunities, group applications, locations, and registrations.
- **2025-10** — Civic Champs filed a federal trademark application for Mentoring Works, signaling continued investment in the mentoring product.
- **2026-05** — A Civic Champs newsletter titled 'A Farewell to Our CEO' indicated a leadership transition involving co-founder Geng Wang; the successor was not publicly clear in the sources reviewed.

## Links

- Website: https://www.civicchamps.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/civicchamps
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CivicChamps
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd_g3cS87rdPshW9n0HzEpg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/civicchamps/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CivicChamps/

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Last updated: 2026-08-22