UPDATE!  Entrance to WeWork is very hard to find!  Will need to go to service entrance on Ann St (7 Ann St, if you google map).  Alex will be outside directing you to the 23rd floor.  When you come out of the service elevator, go through the door and turn right.  We are in the conference room at the end. 

Making moves in environmental, sustainability, or climate world but looking for that extra edge or to grow even further and faster? Spending lots of money on disparate systems that aren't talking to each other and having issues with transparency an accountability?  In a bit of a lull in trying to find out the best way to engage your volunteers, evangelists, and donors?

Come join two of our leading progressive advocacy organizers to learn how NationBuilder can help eliminate some of your pain points, grow your movement, and reach your goals. 

Having access to website building and online engagement tools, voter file and grassroots mobilization tools, and blast email, text, and social media communications all in one place means NationBuilder presents organizations with endless possibilities to build communities better than ever before.

During the NationBuilder201 session we’ll cover some of the core features and advanced functionality with NationBuilder and advanced organizing tactics and best practices we’ve seen movements around the world using NationBuilder, including:

• Communications for 2014: building text keywords into your action pages, importing twitter accounts, and easily turning facebook fans into emailable records in your database.
• Digital Field: finding the most influential people in a community through NationBuilder Match, mapping your online supporters and members, creating digital precinct captains, using surveys and petitions to enhance your voter data
• Fundraising through Organizing: setting up a personal fundraising page, using recruiter links, showing results of campaigns online through leaderboards, making the ask on social media directly through your database
• Leveraging NationBuilder’s App store: How tools like RallyBound, Phone2Action, DoGooder, Action Sprout, Change.org, Organizer, CallFire, and Crowdhall connect into NationBuilder
• Advancing targeting- cultivating prospects to become supporters
• Stringing action pages (petitions, volunteer forms, events, donations, memberships) for maximum participation
• Maximizing workflow- staff, volunteer, donor and chapter management. 

But we also want to hear what is most important to you all!  Please take 3 minutes to fill out this survey so that we may tailor our session to fit your most pressing needs:

Join us Saturday, September 20th at 2:30pm.

RSVP below or text Text NYC201 to 323-739-4978 to let us know you'll be there!

About your facilitators for the day:

Jeff Mallare is the Lead Organizer of brands, entertainment, and progressive advocacy at NationBuilder.  He and his team of organizers handle large progressive campaigns and organizations at the state and national level, as well as socially conscious brands & entertainers.  Prior to NationBuilder Jeff was the Early Vote Director for the President Obama in 2012 in North Carolina. He also served as Senior Advisor of Community Relations at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, where he collaborated over 300 corporate, non-profit, and governmental agencies to elevate impact and awareness in the areas of of sustainability, youth engagement, health, and economic diversity.  Jeff likes quiet walks on the beach, a good white zinfandel, plays a mean pan flute.

Alex Stevens is an Organizer at NationBuilder, where he focuses on progressive issue advocacy campaigns.  Alex brings extensive experience in the student, economic justice, and grassroots movement organizing world. Prior to joining NationBuilder, Alex one of the co-founding organizers of 99Rise where he served as Digital Organizing Coordinator; Engagement Editor at the youth-led indy media outlet Youngist; a Strategic Nonviolence Trainer at Center for the Working Poor.

Alex is a native of Denver, CO, and a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he currently resides. He’s also a lapse slam poet, dedicated beat head, and a lapse avid tweeter of dissident-political flotsam & cyber-cultural jetsam @AlexStevens.