Live webinar

Give Day Workshop: How to Create an Award-Winning Day

A step-by-step look at what it takes to plan, run, and process a record-setting giving day.

Giving days generate energy, but they also generate pressure. Registration deadlines, matching gift pools, donor recognition, and gift processing all have to come together on a single day, and the planning behind that day determines whether it runs smoothly or turns into weeks of cleanup afterward.

Join Sleek and the Occidental College advancement team on September 29 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET as we walk through the steps behind Day for Oxy, a giving day that has broken its own fundraising record two years in a row.

September 29, 2026

2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

What we'll cover

This session walks through the full arc of a giving day, from early planning through post-day reconciliation, with real examples from Day for Oxy along the way.

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Setting goals and timelines. How far in advance to start planning, and how to set donor and dollar goals your team can rally around.

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Designing the donor experience. Building a branded giving day journey, from advocate sign-up through real-time progress tracking.

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Mobilizing advocates and challenges. Setting up leaderboards and challenge structures that keep energy high and engagement visible throughout the day.

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Preparing your team and your systems. Staffing the day itself, and configuring Salesforce Education Cloud so gifts flow in without manual bottlenecks.

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Processing gifts after the day ends. Moving from a weeks-long reconciliation process to one that wraps up in days, not weeks.

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Measuring what happened. Reviewing results, capturing lessons learned, and carrying momentum into next year's campaign.

The story behind the workshop

Day for Oxy raised $2,143,565 from 2,602 donors in 2026, surpassing its donor goal by nearly 40 percent and beating the record it set the year before. Gift processing that once stretched across seven weeks now wraps up in days. Read the full story to see how the campaign came together.

Read the Day for Oxy success story →