Advocacy groups

Quick-launch custom action pages

Endorsement page

With NationBuilder, you don’t need to know a line of code to quickly customize action pages like endorsement list and petitions with supporter photos and comments, and user-generated calendars with RSVPs and event maps. Embed Flickr and Picasa photos and YouTube videos just by putting the URL in a page content editor. Our fully integrated social media sharing helps actions go viral across Twitter and Facebook. Whether your campaign involves dozens of people or hundreds of thousands, take advantage of the flexibility of our cloud and our transparent pricing to support your cause. Start a trial now.

Micro-sites linked to your database and email list

I have seen it all from NGP to BSD to Salsa. None of the programs out there are as affordable or as easy to use as NationBuilder. …The team behind NationBuilder is responsive and actually seems to care about what their clients need out of a product. NationBuilder is truly a Game Changer in the field of online engagement organizing. I would encourage anyone to give it a try, I did and it was the best decision I've made.

Rory McCarron

Easily create a distinct campaign and site design linked to your nation’s database and email lists. With NationBuilder you can add as many new sites to your account as you like, and be up in running with a new campaign in just hours. You can automatically assign tags to new email signups, and quickly filter your lists for various actions while building up your entire organization.

Text marketing

NationBuilder has a built-in text blasting service that allows you to easily harness the power of mobile. Allow your supporters to text to join your organization, sign a petition or RSVP for an event. Mass text volunteers for rapid response and mobilizations. Easily collect mobile numbers for all of your members and volunteers in your nation and design text campaigns on the fly. HOVER ON IMAGE BELOW

Email marketing designed for organizers

Email blast statistics

NationBuilder takes your email lists and puts them to work for your campaign. Import your email contacts and supporters and easily create professional, affordable mass emails. Our pricing is per opt-in, and you can send as many emails as you need to each month. NationBuilder automatically creates a text version of your HTML emails to ensure high delivery rates, and gives you actionable intelligence on who’s opening your messages and which links they are clicking on. You can easily log results of your email campaigns, and target messaging to your strongest supporters. Custom autoresponders for actions across the site help keep new supporters and burgeoning activists in the loop.

Online donations with or without a merchant account

Accept credit cards and set up custom donation pages and tracking right away. There’s no need for a merchant account, and you can set up a site and be taking donations in the same day. NationBuilder integrates with Democracy Engine, PayPal, Authorize.net, ActBlue and more.

Fundraising analytics

Detailed donation listing

Create custom lists and tracking codes for email, phone and peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. You can assign goals for your fundraising team, and quickly record pledges. Use our easy online phone banking tool to record calls right from your browser. You can import donation histories or export them for use in other money management programs, and our finances dashboard gives you a quick look at recent fundraising goals and successes.

Phone banking from home or headquarters

Create custom phone lists and log your contacts right from your web browser. Print your phone lists as well and use our data entry mode for quickly entering results of face-to-face and phone contacts.

Members-only pages

Paid memberships

You can customize any of your pages to be available only to members, and NationBuilder allows you unlimited pages - so you can put up a public blog and then offer exclusive content for folks who sign up for your nation. You can automatically give your supporters membership rights when they make a donation, or do it manually for paid or unpaid members.

Flexible website templates

One of the truly great and important things about social media is its ability to connect people and motivate them toward a common cause. NationBuilder makes it easy for organizations, artists and activists to tap into that promise, with a complete set of tools for managing contacts, social media accounts, finances and more.

Useful Tools

NationBuilder includes a full-featured content management designed for action and community building. You get signup forms, social media sharing, email autoresponses and dozens of additional features for growing your organization. You can use our official themes, customize the look and feel with basic coding skills, and even submit your own designs back to the community.

Low prices for independent and non-profit groups

Base subscription rates for large corporations start at more than 25 times what you’ll pay for your nation. Take advantage of our base $19 pricing to grow your membership, and use Democracy Engine or PayPal to take online donations with no merchant account setup or up-front fees. There are no hidden fees, and no up front costs for nations of less than 1 million supporters, just pay as you grow.

News feed for your organization

Social media management

Our exclusive activity stream design gives you up-to-the-minute access to activities across the web related to your group, from Twitter mentions and retweets to likes on your Facebook page posts, Meetup RSVPs and all comments and other activities on your own site. Broadcast to Facebook and Twitter right from your control panel and interact with fans and prospects.

Custom calendars

Calendar of events

Our full-featured event management system helps you plan and manage gatherings of any size, sell tickets and feature user-submitted events. Customize your event pages with Google Maps, photos and videos and get RSVPs from Facebook and Meetup. Our editable email autoresponders will make sure guests get additional instructions and information right in their inbox. You can also feature a public map of upcoming events and let people search for those in their geographic area.

User submitted events

Online suggestion box

Allow members to make suggestions and respond to others using our flexible suggestion page type. You can customize tags like “important, feasible, impractical” and monitor feedback and conversation between members of your nation.

Feedback and friend finder

You can take custom feedback and easily let members find Facebook and Twitter friends who’ve already joined.

Leaderboards, gamification and your own virtual currency

Customizable leaderboards

Customize public leaderboards for top commenters, social media supporters and other fans and friends. Your members can earn and spend “participation capital” for spreading the word about your site on Twitter and Facebook and recruiting new signups. Recruiting pages make it easy for members to spread the word about your nation and track their own progress in bringing in new signups and volunteers.

Volunteer database management

NationBuilder includes a robust social customer relationship management system, designed for organizing large groups. Offer volunteer opportunities and keep track of supporters’ activities, including logging email responses, face-to-face meetings and phone calls.

Unlimited blogging, including guest posts

Optional user submitted blog posts

NationBuilder supports unlimited blogs pages and subnavigations, unlimited authors and granular settings for permissions and comments - including the ability to let any logged-in user submit a post. Plus Embedly integration for rich media publishing from more than 200 sites.

Pages to help manage your group

We’ve got a press release template for you, as well as customizable multiple-choice and yes/no surveys. You can also easily embed content from other sites or use a redirect page to send traffic from your site navigation tabs or sidebar buttons to organizations you want to support. Set up a three-strikes policy with clear rules for visitors to keep your nation civil.

Analytics tracking

NationBuilder works very well with Google Analytics, and you can set up your nation to track inbound visits generated by partner organizations. Set up activity chains to take new signups through key pages and actions in your nation.

Custom SEO

Forget letting Facebook and Google grab random snippets of text from your pages to represent your campaigns. NationBuilder lets you customize key search engine and social media sharing text either at the page level or from your dashboard. Tailor your tweets as well as search results. Get started with a free 14-day trial.