Gamma

WHAT IT DOES

• AI-powered presentations. Give Gamma as much or as little input as you want — a few bullet points, a rough outline, a full brief — and it generates a clean, structured slide deck almost instantly.

• Interactive refinement. Once you have a first draft, refine it conversationally with AI. Adjust tone, restructure sections, add slides, change visuals — all without starting over.

• Shareable links. Send a link instead of a file. No more wrestling with version control or incompatible formats when sharing with board members and partners.

WHY WE RECOMMEND IT

• We use it regularly. Gamma is part of our workflow for building presentations, and the time savings are real. What used to take hours now takes minutes to get to a strong first draft.

• EDs live in presentations. Board meetings, donor pitches, committee updates, partner briefings — if you’re building decks regularly, this is one of the biggest time-saving tools available to you.

• Consistently better output. The quality of a Gamma-generated first draft is higher than what most people produce manually in the same amount of time. You’re starting from a better place and refining from there.

BEST FIT

• Frequent deck builders. Executive Directors and development staff who create presentations regularly and want to dramatically speed up the process.

• Small teams without designers. If “design” at your org means whoever has time, Gamma gets you to polished-looking materials without design skills.

• Board decks and donor pitches. The formats EDs build most often are exactly what Gamma handles best — structured, narrative-driven presentations.

WHEN THIS ISN’T THE RIGHT FIT

• You rarely build decks. If presentations aren’t a regular part of your work, the value won’t be there.

• Strict brand requirements. If you need pixel-perfect, brand-specific visuals, you may still need a design tool like Canva for final polish. Gamma’s output can feel slightly generic without refinement.

HOW IT FITS THE LANDSCAPE

• Gamma + Canva can work together. Gamma for generating structure and content quickly, Canva for design refinement when you need it. You can also stay entirely within Gamma depending on your standards.

• Faster than PowerPoint or Slides. The practical comparison is: keep building decks manually in PowerPoint or Google Slides, or use an AI-first tool that gets you a strong draft in minutes.

BOARD-READY CASE

• Low cost, minimal justification. Freemium model with paid plans in the low tens of dollars per month. Most orgs only need 1–3 seats.

• Time saved is the ROI. Consistently higher-quality presentations with far less effort. The hours saved on deck-building alone justify the subscription.

DISCLOSURE

Full transparency: if you sign up through this page, Proimpact earns a referral fee — and that’s exactly how we keep all of our content, workshops, and community resources free for nonprofit EDs. We only recommend tools we genuinely believe in.