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Webinar Recap: 2 Minutes to an Impactful Giving Season – Quick & Easy Ways to Launch Engaging Campaigns

Written by Team Deed | 11/19/25 6:02 PM

 

Speakers:

  • Layle-Stav Kashi, VP of Product, Deed
  • Hamish Black, Head of Partner Success, Deed
  • Fred Creech, Partner Success, Deed

Giving Season can feel overwhelming with events, reports, and year-end goals all competing for attention. Deed’s AI-powered campaign templates and tools make it easy to launch giving, volunteering, and matching campaigns in minutes and then gamify the experience to keep engagement high through year-end. These features do the heavy lifting so you can stay focused on everything else happening during this busy season. In this webinar, we showed how impact-driven companies turn ideas into real impact using ready-to-go templates, automated content generation, and tools that effortlessly inspire participation across the workforce.

 

Top 5 Webinar Takeaways

1. Launch complete campaigns in minutes with ImpactAI

Deed’s ImpactAI auto-generates campaign copy, visuals, and nonprofit suggestions in under two minutes. During the demo, we showed how admins can instantly:

  • Select a theme (e.g., Giving Season, Disaster Relief)
  • Feature nonprofits based on employee interest
  • Generate on-brand messaging
  • Set goals and timing
  • Add volunteer events, fundraisers, or employee-created pages
  • Localize for specific regions or launch globally

2. Simplicity drives stronger engagement

Straightforward campaigns perform best. Quick, clear activations, such as “One Hour for Good,” “12 Days of Giving,” or “Double Your Impact on GivingTuesday,” make it easier for employees to participate right away. Nonprofit spotlight features also help employees discover causes they can support.

 

3. Strategic matching increases participation

Short-term increased matching, especially on GivingTuesday, reliably spikes engagement. Many Deed clients are offering increased matches on GivingTuesday or increased matches for select nonprofits to boost visibility and momentum.

 

4. Gamification makes campaigns more inclusive

Deed’s comprehensive Actions Library inspires employees to take bite-size actions like “unplug electronics” or “drink from a reusable water bottle.” It ensures that all employees can participate, regardless of time or budget. Deed’s new Challenges feature gamifies participation with leaderboards for teams that have completed the most Actions and enables admins to reward employees with badges, certificates, and donation credits. 

 

5. Giving Season goes beyond GivingTuesday

GivingTuesday is just one moment in a much larger Giving Season. The end of the year is typically the highest-engagement time for giving, and Charity Navigator reports that many nonprofits receive 30-50% of their annual revenue during November and December. Keep campaigns active, refresh visuals mid-month, share progress updates (e.g., “We’re 80% to goal!”), and use friendly team spotlights to maintain excitement and participation.

 

Quick Wins for Giving Season

Hamish, Fred, and Stav shared some of the winning ways that they have seen Deed clients engage employees and amplify their impact during Giving Season. Based on exciting successes from Deed clients, the speakers recommend that if you can only run one activation before year-end:

  • Launch a 2x GivingTuesday match, or
  • Host an Actions Challenge to engage teams with different time and budget constraints.

To sustain momentum after GivingTuesday:

  • Keep campaigns live through December
  • Offer targeted 2x matches for specific nonprofits
  • Share ongoing impact updates (e.g., “We’re 80% to goal” or “500 meals funded so far”) 
  • Refresh campaign imagery mid-month
  • Encourage employees to engage across multiple channels (email + Slack/Teams)

Ready for your Most Impactful Giving Season Yet?

Current Deed Partners: Ping your Deed Partner Success Manager to enable ImpactAI, Challenges, and Actions, and get a new campaign live today!

New to Deed? We’ll show you how to build a tailored, ready-to-launch campaign in minutes.

 

 

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