What's new at NationBuilder

Announcing NationBuilder Cities... and our new logo!

Posted by · October 25
Since Jim’s announcement on Wednesday, we’ve received so much love and support from the NationBuilder community. We’re incredibly grateful. Continue reading

NationBuilder's new CEO

Posted by · October 18
Lea Endres, my co-founder and previously our President, is now our CEO. We’ve been running NationBuilder together for over five years and our plan was always that if anything happened to me, she would take over. Well, this... Continue reading

Ok, so you got elected… that don’t impress me much

Posted by · October 16
TAGGED Win your election Strategy + 1 more
I’ve been reading the same story over and over in the international news—stories about relatively young, recently elected world and party leaders that get elected by riding high on a movement and then face subsequent slum... Continue reading

API update: type_id no longer required when creating a contact

Posted by · October 16
TAGGED API & Integrations
Effective October 12, 2017 — applications using NationBuilder's Contact API/Create endpoint no longer have to include type_id in the request to create a new contact. Continue reading

Help for geocoding international addresses, contact type optional in the API and bug fixes

Posted by · October 16
TAGGED Product updates
Here’s what we’ve been up to! The ‘contact type’ functionality has been replaced with paths but the ‘contact type’ field was still required in the API - we’ve made it optional.  Some people were seeing a button to ‘ref... Continue reading

[Webinar] How to send emails people actually open, read, and engage

Posted by · October 11
TAGGED Strategy Advocate for your community
Last week, I hosted the first in our two-part, tech-agnostic webinar series, Key Tactics in Effective Email Advocacy. The response was amazing—thanks to all who tuned in! Find the recording, plus related resources below. Continue reading

Profile signup type added to tag share, email search added to the API & some control panel fixes

Posted by · October 02
TAGGED Product updates
Recent product updates and bug fixes! When sharing profiles via tag share the signup type is shared as well - so sharing an organization profile will keep it an organization and not change it to a person We added email... Continue reading

NationBuilder, RunForOffice.org, and BallotReady create the first public database of school board positions for all 50 states

Posted by · September 29
TAGGED Win your election Run for office
Nine months ago, NationBuilder and RunForOffice.org embarked on a uniquely ambitious project: to map all the electable positions in school districts in the US with the help of dedicated volunteers. Since then, a total of 2... Continue reading

Using volunteer management and beautiful web design to grow your nonprofit

Posted by · September 25
TAGGED Run your nonprofit Design + 1 more
Nonprofits know the pillars of success for their organization. Yes, fundraising and a digital existence are obvious ones, but what about the more specific tasks at hand? Continue reading

Open source event sync tool

Posted by · September 22
TAGGED Design API & Integrations
The following is a guest post by certified NationBuilder Agency, Code Nation. For support requests please contact this developer directly at info@codenation.com The future of campaigning is not just digital. It’s the past... Continue reading

[Webinar] How to do more with Organization Features - Webinar Followup & links

Posted by · September 21
TAGGED Strategy
Thank you to everyone who attended our Organization Features Webinar on Wednesday, September 20th! Did you miss the webinar? Don’t worry - we have it recorded and are doing it again on October 25th!   Continue reading

Filtering by Township & Ward, updates to flash messages and fixes to the control panel

Posted by · September 18
TAGGED Product updates
Product updates for the past two weeks! You can also filter by 'completed' on our Issues & Suggestion page to see these announcements as they are completed!  We are working on updating events and are looking for beta t... Continue reading

New Political Party in Australia, a better way to view Australia on a map & nulling out a zip via the API!

Posted by · September 05
TAGGED Product updates
  We added Liberal Democrats to the list of political parties available in Australia. There was an issue with domains hosted on NationBuilder failing which has been addressed and fixed!  Here’s a hard one to explain! Ma... Continue reading

Changes to how you log contacts with paths, survey question order, theme updates & more!

Posted by · August 18
TAGGED Product updates
Some recent product updates: You can now log a contact (via batch update, log on a person’s profile and send a 1x1 email) without specifying a path! This was originally intended to tie all communications to an engagement ... Continue reading

Petition improvements (including a new filter!) and email list subscription fixes for your supporters who take action

Posted by · August 07
TAGGED Product updates
We’ve made some improvements to NationBuilder petition pages! You can now filter on ‘has signed (specific petition)’ this will make it easier to target outreach to people who have signed one (or more!) specific petitions... Continue reading