Recognition & Rewards
Recognize great work in real time
Custom awards and achievements
Automated milestone celebrations
A feel-good, company-wide recognition feed
Gamified Employee Growth & Performance Platform
Say hello to your happy, healthy, high-performing team
Give River turns recognition, goals, and growth into 30–90 day Seasons with clear rewards, real stakes, and the kind of momentum people brag about on LinkedIn.
90%
platform adoption
100%
Season participation
EXP · 16 of 16
85%
want another Season
CADC · 326 employees
80%
River Runs completion
40%
retention lift
Give River builds happy, healthy, high-performing teams through the gamified 5G Method in minutes a day.
The problem with yesterday's tools
Most engagement platforms hit a cliff at Month 3.
Novelty fades. Participation drops. Give River's seasonal model is engineered to prevent this — each Season resets the story, the goals, and the energy.
The Month 3 Cliff
Launch → novelty → silence.
Launch hype carries platforms for 6–8 weeks. Then managers forget. Employees stop checking. By Month 3, participation is below the baseline that made you shop in the first place.
20–30%
Typical adoption
↓ 67%
Drop by M3
Seasonal Momentum
New Season, new story, same goals.
30–90 day Seasons give the platform a fresh narrative every quarter. Leaderboards reset. Rewards restock. Your River Guide designs each Season around a real goal on your team's actual to-do list.
90%
Sustained adoption
3×
More Seasons asked for
The 5G Method
Five pillars. One gamified platform.
Recognition, learning, team-building, wellbeing, and community impact — each a pillar of the 5G Method, all in one connected experience. Swipe through to see how they fit together.
Learning & Development
Customizable learning management system
Curated micro-learning courses
Quizzes, assessments, and certifications
Gamified growth with rewards
Gamified Team-Building
Seasons that keep momentum high
Team challenges and competitions
Live leaderboards and rankings
Rewards worth chasing
Workplace Wellbeing
Foster stronger social connections
Support healthy, balanced hybrid teams
A virtual community where everyone feels valued
Community Impact
Turn your team into advocates and ambassadors
Democratize corporate charitable giving
Community and charitable impact dashboard
Team members choose causes that count
Performance in Play
The future of work is performance in play
Recognition, Seasons, Impact, Guidance — the Give River flywheel. Each piece reinforces the next.
01·Recognition
Drops that actually land.
Peer-to-peer recognition tied to your core values, celebrated publicly, rewarded meaningfully — and visible right inside Slack or Teams.
- →Tag recognitions to your values with Team Tags
- →Redeem points for gift cards, custom rewards, or charitable donations
- →See exactly who's recognized and who's getting overlooked
MK
Mia Kim
Huge ownership on the launch 🎯
#ownership+25
JR
Jordan Rivera
Shipped the migration ahead of schedule.
#execution+40
SP
Sam Park
Turned the client call around. Thank you.
#care+15
02·Seasons
Time-boxed. Results-driven.
30–90 day performance Seasons with clear goals, team leaderboards, and rewards worth chasing. Because 'ongoing initiative' is where good ideas go to die.
- →Define success metrics with your River Guide
- →Team leaderboards with real-time standings
- →Before/after data on engagement, retention, productivity
Q1 Recognition SeasonDay 47
1Growth
4,120 pts2Product
3,985 pts3Success
3,702 pts4Engineering
3,480 pts03·Impact
The Game of Good Deeds.
Employees direct corporate giving to causes they choose. Recognition creates ripples — in your culture, in your brand, in the world.
- →Employee-directed donations to verified 501(c)(3)s
- →Team giving challenges tied to Seasons
- →Automated distribution + tax compliance handled
📚Education
🏥Health
🌳Environment
🏠Housing
🧠Mental Health
🍎Food
👧Youth
⚖️Justice
🐾Animals
04·Guidance
Your fractional culture strategist.
On Core and up, your account gets a River Guide: a former HR or culture expert who designs your Seasons, interprets your data, and partners with People Ops as a strategic extension of the team. Shared on Core, dedicated on Growth and Nonprofit.
- →Custom Season design tied to real business goals
- →Monthly data review + health-score interpretation
- →Change management, launch playbooks, manager training
1:1
Strategic support
The numbers
Targets based on top-decile customer outcomes.
90%
Platform adoption
vs. 20–30% industry standard
80%
Course completion
River Runs micro-learning
85%
Want another Season
CADC · across 326 employees
15hr
HR time saved / week
Automation of routine admin
Targets based on top-decile customer outcomes. Averages vary by org size, industry, and Season design.
Real teams · Real outcomes
When the work feels good, the work gets done.
“Give River has been an incredible blessing to our organization. It saved us time and made rolling out our recognition program effortless, helping us launch it in record time. I love seeing the appreciation spread across our teams, it's truly shifting our culture to be more positive and supportive of everyone's well being. With our organization spread across 25 sites, Give River shout-outs help me see who's working well together and feel genuinely more connected to all the teams.”
LS
Leah Sturm
Human Resources Coordinator
“Give River was the catalyst for a real culture shift. Our team became more open, collaborative, and willing to pitch in — and it even raised the passion for our mission, which was already high. We had 100% participation in our first Give River season, and the impact was undeniable. The experience sparked lasting culture change and inspired us to launch a second season.”
MT
Mary Tran
CEO
“The platform is truly exceptional! It offers a much-needed pause during the day, providing tools that are beneficial not only in a professional setting but also in managing personal life. I find the platform incredibly valuable, especially the module on trust in the workplace.”
AA
Ariella Assouline
Manager of Programs and Operations
The triple impact
When you care about your team, your customers, and your community —
Give River is for you. Fulfilled people. Thriving business. A community that's better for it. Everyone plays. Everyone wins.
♡
Your people
Fulfillment > engagement. Recognition they can feel, growth they opt into.
90% adoption
◉
Your business
Performance in Play — measurable retention, productivity, and culture lift.
40% retention lift
✦
Your community
Employees direct their recognition points to verified 501(c)(3)s they care about. Not checkbook philanthropy.
Employee-directed giving
★
Your brand
Public Benefit Corp, Add a Drop Foundation aligned. Purpose you own.
PBC · Add a Drop
What could you save?
Create a ripple effect to transform your team
Plug in your team size and turnover — we'll show you the annual cost of churn and what a 25% reduction would save.
150 people
20500
$80,000
$40,000$200,000
18%
540
Your numbers
Current annual turnover cost
$2,160,000
1× salary replacement (SHRM median)
Projected annual savings
$540,000
Based on 25% turnover reduction — typical Give River outcome
Talk to sales about your numbers
Estimates assume typical top-decile outcomes. Your mileage may vary — see the methodology.
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Six things prospects ask us before a demo. Honest answers, up front.
Yes — Give River works for teams of 20–500 across tech, healthcare, nonprofits, professional services, and any team that wants culture to scale. The 5G platform — recognition, growth, team-building, impact, and a River Guide — runs on Seasons so you never hit the Month 3 cliff. Customers average 90% adoption.
2–4 weeks end-to-end to launch. Your River Guide designs the first Season with you, handles Slack/Teams/HRIS integration, and trains managers. Most teams run their first Season within a month of signing and see meaningful engagement lift in the first 2–4 weeks.
Free, Core $5, Growth custom. Every paid plan includes a 30-day free trial. River Guide (a fractional culture strategist) is included on Core (shared) and Growth (dedicated). If you bring us a competitor quote, we'll match or beat it.
Adoption is the #1 thing we optimize for. Gamified Seasons, mobile apps, and in-Slack/Teams Drops mean your team doesn't have to leave the tools they already live in. 90% adoption is the result, not an aspiration.
No. We integrate with ADP, Workday, BambooHR, and Rippling. Your HRIS stays the system of record. Give River handles recognition, learning, performance, and impact — the things most HRIS platforms do poorly.
Industry-standard encryption at rest and in transit, SSO/SAML on Core and up, configurable visibility, GDPR/CCPA-ready. SOC 2 Type II is on our 2026 roadmap.
Build a team worth playing for.
30-day free trial. No credit card. River Guide included on Core and Growth.