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Paypal

Posted by · July 28
Paypal is now fully integrated as a payment processor.  We did the good integration too, where it's as seamless as possible flipping to Paypal's site and immediately coming back to your NationBuilder site and resuming the... Continue reading

25 cool ways for your non-profit to grow on NationBuilder

Posted by · July 21
Beyond beautiful websites, NationBuilder has an insane amount of built-in tools for leveraging the passion of your volunteers and staff - at about the cost of simply hosting a website and the ease of a wordpress.com implem... Continue reading

Five killer ways to do events with NationBuilder

Posted by · July 10
Among its many cool engagement-centric features, NationBuilder allows you to easily create events and organize them across platforms. For creative campaign managers, there are few boundaries to what you can do with online... Continue reading

Quick-to-launch site aids apartment fire victims

Posted by · July 01
When an apartment fire in Madison displaced dozens of households this week, friends and neighbors turned to NationBuilder to quickly spin up a site to take relief donations via Democracy Engine, aggregate news about reli... Continue reading

Adding Tumblr to your nation

Posted by · June 29
Update: Since Tumblr removed the embed code from its "Goodies" section, Adriel discussed this topic on a recent episode of NationBuilder Live. You can see the clip and learn how to add Tumblr to your website in a newer blo... Continue reading

Globe-trotting with NationBuilder, Twitter and Klout

Posted by · June 14
I've been road-tripping a bit lately, from CityCamp Raleigh in North Carolina to DC and Maryland for the InsideNGO annual meeting and the Health Data Initiative (rough #healthapps video here). This week, I'm out to Minneap... Continue reading

Fundraising with NationBuilder

Posted by · June 13
NationBuilder makes it wicked easy to fundraise for your non-profit, political campaign, and more.  This morning I was brainstorming with a non-profit client on different ways to use the platform to drive donations: C... Continue reading

NationBuilder on the road

Posted by · May 31
NationBuilder lives in the cloud, and so do we. But whenever we have the chance, we like to get outside of the video chat, phones and email to meet IRL with other on- and offline organizers, activists, developers and commu... Continue reading

New official theme: Resolve

Posted by · May 19
Resolve theme. Click to zoom. If you take a look in the theme area of your control panel, you'll notice there's a new official theme available called Resolve. I just finished this up and am really happy with the resu... Continue reading

Funding announcement

Posted by · May 11
We are thrilled to announce that we just closed $500,000 in funding from a handful of angel investors including Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and the chief online organizer for Obama's 2008 campaign. Ramin Bastani o... Continue reading

New screencast on customizing sidebars

Posted by · May 09
The excellent nation builders over at Richir Outreach put together this screencast on how to customize sidebars.  Well done! And thanks for sharing it with everyone. They've been doing some great stuff over at Action NC... Continue reading

Revolution in Scotland

Posted by · May 07
TAGGED Political
The Scottish National Party was down 15 points in the polls to Labour in February when Kirk Torrance approached me about using the still-in-alpha NationBuilder to power a new snp.org website and their plans for a social me... Continue reading

Adriel Hampton: I am NationBuilder

Posted by · May 06
It was one of the more artful job descriptions I've read: A description of a person – a personality, not a set of qualifications, endorsements and achievements held together by a resume or some faceless candidate. "Chief ... Continue reading

Cloudy

Posted by · April 22
As you probably noticed, NationBuilder along with many sites on the internet, including Reddit, Quora, Foursquare, and others, were down all day long yesterday.  Many sites are still down 26 hours later (we were down for a... Continue reading

Simple image sliders

Posted by · April 19
TAGGED Product updates Design
We noticed several people trying to install jQuery image sliders to feature specific content. This can be a hassle to setup, so we decided to make it super simple and built this feature into NationBuilder. Here's how it w... Continue reading