Conference Give-Back Activations for Event & Meeting Planners

Add Give-Back to Your Event Without Adding Risk to Your Agenda

Give To Get designs and runs hands-on volunteer activations for conferences, meetings and employee events. We find local nonprofits, build engagements that load in and out of the venue, supply the materials, staff the activity and deliver finished products to the community, all inside your schedule and staffing plan. Activations run in person, virtually or as hybrid events.

You are responsible for an experience that has to run on time, on budget and on message. Whether you are a Meeting Planner, Conference Producer, Head of Events, Employee Experience Manager or Fundraising Event Lead, the request lands the same way: leadership wants the event to show the company's commitment to social impact, and there is no spare room in the agenda or the staffing plan.

We work plug-and-play with your producers, whether you have dedicated time or need to fit a program into a tight agenda.

What Makes a Give-Back Activation Hard to Add to an Event?

Everything added to a run of show has to load in and out cleanly, fit the staffing plan and avoid pulling attendees away from the program. Finding give-back options that match company pillars is a challenge for CSR teams and planners alike, and your event already has a host city, a theme, a venue and a minute-by-minute schedule.

The activity also has to work for several audiences at once. Attendees need to understand why it matters and what to do. Nonprofits need an experience that supports their work instead of adding strain. Leaders need confidence that it reflects the company's values and is run professionally.

When a volunteer activity goes wrong, it is the planner who answers for it.

When Do Event Planners Call Give To Get?

When a conference or meeting needs a give-back that fits the agenda and the team is already stretched. These are the five moments planners most often reach out.

A conference needs a give-back element

The host city, theme and venue are set, and leadership wants attendees to do something tangible for the community. We work with your meetings team to find local nonprofits that fit the event and can use the support.

The agenda is already full

We design engagements for dedicated time or for a tight agenda, including live-on-the-side activities that don’t require dedicated space or time.

You do not have staff to spare

We provide facilitators and on-site or virtual program management so your team does not have to.

Attendees are joining from different places

We support in-person, virtual and hybrid activations from planning through completion.

One more task is one task too many

We handle nonprofit coordination, materials sourcing and assembly, run-of-show development, participant instructions, troubleshooting, and post-event feedback and reporting.

Company pillar alignment

DMCs and other vendors may look to add-in an easy volunteering opportunity as a way of “checking the box” on a social impact program. Usually, these don’t align with your company pillars or support organizations that aren’t vetted. Frequently, the donations are low in terms of impact. Give To Get levels-up your meetings and events by making sure that the program meets your company needs, supports the right nonprofits and creates high-impact donations.

How Does Give To Get Support Event and Meeting Planners?

Give To Get designs, staffs and runs the volunteer activation so your team does not have to, and it works inside your schedule and staffing plan.

Meetings and Events

Authentic volunteering activations built into conferences, meetings and employee events, whether you have dedicated time or need to integrate a program into a tight agenda.

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Event Execution

Concept development, nonprofit and venue coordination, volunteer capacity planning, registration support, material sourcing and assembly, run-of-show development, facilitator and event staffing, on-site or virtual program management, and post-event feedback.

Learn more about CSR Program Management.

Purpose Packs

Turnkey volunteer kits that work at conferences, employee gatherings and company-wide campaigns, with nonprofit partners, training, supplies and instructions included. Each pack includes Meaning Moments, short facilitation prompts developed with Realized Worth.

Learn more about Purpose Packs.

Employee Volunteer Campaigns

Campaigns that coordinate efforts across markets, countries and nonprofits, bringing volunteers to the community and volunteering to your office.

Learn more about Corporate Volunteerism.

How Did Cisco Live Add Hands-On Volunteering to a Major Conference?

Cisco Live is Cisco's annual conference for 25,000+ IT professionals, network engineers, developers and partners. The event represents an opportunity to showcase the company's commitment to social impact and engage their partners and users. Cisco needed a partner that could work with its meeting and event team to create interactive, hands-on volunteer opportunities that benefit the host city.

Give To Get confirms the host city, theme and venue with the events team, finds local nonprofits that fit the event and can use the support, then designs engagements that load in and out of the venue and fit the planner's schedule and attendee flow. At the end, our team distributes the finished products to local nonprofits. Over three years, we have created multiple social impact zones, from a dedicated 5,000 square feet of furniture building for transition housing to smaller engagements supporting the local unhoused community along the corridors that attendees joined between sessions.

Read the Cisco Live case study. Related case studies: Subaru and CHS.