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Introducing Joy

Meet Joy, your GivePulse helper.

Ask about your data in plain language, reflect on an experience with a thoughtful guide, and find the right event in a single sentence. Joy is here to help you think and act. It's not here to think for you.

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Joy Ask Joy
Hi, I'm Joy. Ask me anything about your community.
Which students are close to their service-hour minimum?
14 students are within 5 hours of the 20-hour requirement. The closest:
Maya R.17 / 20
Jordan T.16 / 20
Priya S.15 / 20
Who are my most engaged volunteers this quarter?
Here are your top three by hours:
1Dana K.38 hrs
2Luis M.31 hrs
3Amara O.27 hrs
How many residents volunteered this year compared to last year?
12,480residents volunteered this year, up 18% on last year
Which partner orgs posted the most events this month?
Your three most active partners this month:
Riverside Food Bank14 events
Habitat Austin11 events
Literacy Council9 events
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Sample data, shown for illustration.

Whatever slows you down, just ask.

Three everyday headaches. One helper.

Ask Joy
Digging through spreadsheets for one number
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How many volunteers signed up this week?
42, up 12% from last week.
Reflection Helper
Staring at a blank reflection box
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Help me write about today
Happy to. Let's start simple: what did you do?
Smart Search
Clicking through filter after filter
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Family-friendly, Saturday morning
Done. Showing family-friendly events this Saturday morning.

Ask Joy about almost anything

The kinds of questions Joy can answer, across every kind of community.

Which students are close to their service-hour minimum?Higher Ed Who are my most engaged volunteers this quarter?Nonprofit Which partner orgs posted the most events this month?United Way Show service-learning hours by courseHigher Ed Export today's check-in listNonprofit How many residents volunteered this year?City Which students are close to their service-hour minimum?Higher Ed Who are my most engaged volunteers this quarter?Nonprofit Which partner orgs posted the most events this month?United Way Show service-learning hours by courseHigher Ed Export today's check-in listNonprofit How many residents volunteered this year?City
Who hasn't logged their required hours yet?K-12 Compare this semester's hours to last springHigher Ed What did volunteers say about today's event?Nonprofit Outdoor events this weekend near AustinCity How many employee volunteer hours this quarter?CSR List events with no registrationsNonprofit Who hasn't logged their required hours yet?K-12 Compare this semester's hours to last springHigher Ed What did volunteers say about today's event?Nonprofit Outdoor events this weekend near AustinCity How many employee volunteer hours this quarter?CSR List events with no registrationsNonprofit

Three ways Joy helps

Keep scrolling and watch a conversation with Joy unfold.

Ask Joy Reflection Helper Smart Search
The chat page

Ask anything about your groups' data.

Follow up, dig deeper, export what you find. Every conversation is saved to your history, so you can come back and pick up right where you left off.

Joy Ask Joy
How many volunteers signed up this week?
42 volunteers signed up this week, up 12% from last week. Want a breakdown by event?
Yes, by event.
Signups this week, by event
Spring Cleanup18
Food Pantry Sort14
River Cleanup10
Export that for my report.
Done. Your file is ready, and this chat is saved in your history so you can pick it back up anytime.
↓  signups-by-event.csv
Your conversations
Signups by eventToday
Service hours by courseTuesday
Top volunteersMonday
Write Your Reflection with Joy

Turn an experience into a real reflection.

When someone logs an impact, a guided conversation helps them turn what they did into a written reflection they can insert. The words and the insight stay theirs.

Joy Reflection Helper
Impact logged
3 hours at Riverside Food Pantry
Write Your Reflection with Joy
Let's capture this while it's fresh. What's one moment from today that stuck with you?
A woman told me she used this pantry when she was a kid.
That's a powerful moment. How did hearing it change the way you saw the work?
It stopped feeling like helping strangers and started feeling like helping neighbors.
Draft, built from your words
Today I sorted donations at Riverside Food Pantry. A woman told me she used the pantry as a kid, and it changed how I saw the work. It stopped feeling like helping strangers and started feeling like helping neighbors.
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Public event & group search

Describe what you want. Joy finds it.

On the public event and group search page, type a sentence like "outdoor events this weekend near Austin" and Joy turns it into filters for you.

Joy Smart Search
⚲  outdoor events this weekend near Austin
I turned that into filters for you.
OutdoorThis weekendAustin, TX
Riverside Park CleanupSat 9 to 11 am · Riverside Park Crew
Trail Restoration DaySat 8 to 10 am · Austin Parks Volunteers
Community Garden BuildSun 10 am to 12 pm · Green Thumbs ATX
Want me to narrow these to family-friendly?

See Joy in action

A two-minute look at Ask Joy, Reflection Helper, and Smart Search working together.

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You don't need to be a spreadsheet expert to use your data.

Time back

Stop merging reports and filtering exports. Ask the question, get the answer.

Real clarity

See what's working, what's not, and where to focus, without digging for it.

Deeper reflection

Help volunteers and students go past "it was good" to what it actually meant.

Built to help people, not replace them.

GivePulse exists to strengthen communities. We built Joy the same way: to make your work easier and your judgment stronger, never to make the decisions for you.

You stay in charge

Joy answers, suggests and drafts. You decide what to use, what to change and what to ignore.

Grounded in your own data

Joy answers from the information in your GivePulse account, so you can check what it tells you.

The reflection is theirs

Joy asks the questions. The experience, and what it meant, belongs to the person who lived it.

Questions about how Joy works? Talk to our team.

Joy is here. Go ask it something.

Talk to our team to see what Joy can do for your organization.

FAQs

  • When will I have access to try?

    Please complete this Beta Release Interest Form. Applicants will be notified in April about their participation in the Beta release.

  • What will it help me report on?

    Currently, the assistant is pulling from registration, event, and group ID fields. Ask questions like "Show me registrations for [Group Name]," "I want to see [Organization] data," or "Get data for [Event Name]." 

  • What are the current capabilities?

    Your assistant can support any questions related to Registrations and Event data only. 

    Viewing registration lists, filtering by status/dates/custom fields, calculating attendance rates, and exporting data

    More features coming soon! For now, stick to questions about registrations and events.

  • How does Joy support student reflections?

    Joy, the AI Teaching Assistant, guides students, volunteers, and users through a thoughtful reflection process by asking a series of questions directly in the Add Impact workflow related to the experience without administrative oversight and input.

  • Is beta testing available for Joy?

    Yes! We invite you to apply to be a Joy beta tester. Beta testing will begin in late summer/early fall 2026. 

    Access Beta Test Survey