A paddle raise only activates the few donors willing to raise a card in public. The Unified Moment turns the appeal into a three-act experience where the whole room gives at once — the room gathers and you watch engagement climb, donors build one giant match together from their phones, then everyone gives simultaneously while seats light up and table totals reveal.
A paddle raise asks attendees to publicly pledge by raising a numbered card while an emcee calls descending amounts. It only ever reaches the handful of people comfortable being seen giving big in a crowded room — everyone else becomes an audience.
Act 1 — Room Gather: everyone joins from their phone and the screen shows participation climbing, so you can see how much of the room is in.
Act 2 — Leadership Council: from their phones, donors put up a match together. Individual pledges merge into one giant collective match, and each donor chooses to be named or anonymous.
Act 3 — The Unified Moment: everyone picks a range and the wheel chooses their gift, all at once. Seats light up as gifts land, the final reveal shows every table's total and the room's grand total, and if a match was raised the crowd meets it together.
If your event is built around a small number of major donors who expect public recognition for transformational gifts, a classic paddle raise still delivers. The Unified Moment shines when you want the whole room giving — galas, conferences, churches, and school fundraisers where participation matters as much as the total.
Yes. The Unified Moment plays the same role as the paddle call — the in-room giving appeal — but it's set up by the Room Gather and a crowd-built match, and it opens the giving to every attendee instead of only the donors willing to raise a card in public.
Instead of one major donor's match announced from the stage, donors build one giant match together from their phones during the Leadership Council. Each donor chooses to be named or anonymous, and the whole room later meets that match together in the Unified Moment.
As gifts land, seats light up around the room in real time. The final reveal shows each table's total — what they did together — and how it all adds up to the room's grand total.
No. It runs in any mobile browser. Attendees scan a QR code or open a link — there's nothing to install.