Advocacy

Advocacy

How Arizona grassroots organizers are using NationBuilder to change Arizona's future

Daria Ovide moved to Arizona from the East Coast with a single mission: take down Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The long-time Phoenix sheriff has been heavily criticized for his harsh policies toward illegal immigrants, treatment of...

Entrepreneurs aim to create a center that can hold

In less than three months, tax increases from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and spending cuts resulting from the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 are predicted to send the country off a "fiscal cliff" and the ...

Bikers and walkers unite! America Bikes fights for federal funding

As an alternative to driving, biking and walking have the potential to help solve many of the social ills that plague the country. If more people made the shift from driving to bicycling and walking, we would see vast impr...

Education organizations get organized with NationBuilder

Education is a local issue that hits close to home. When schools are struggling, families and communities are direclty impacted. Many education organizations grow organically out of the efforts of parents and communities t...

Creating young leaders - The Roadtrip to End Poverty hits the road on NationBuilder

Right now, over a billion people around the world are living in extreme poverty. According to UNICEF, more than 30 percent of children in developing countries live on less than $1 US dollar per day. Every 3.6 seconds someo...

Taking global action to end sexual violence in conflict

Rape and violence against women is just as much a part of conflict around the world as guns and bombs - and a new international campaign wants to illuminate that fact and change it. Last year, thirty-seven armed conflicts ...

An animal rescue hero: Eldad Hagar of Hope for Paws

Eldad Hager of Hope for Paws Late one night in July, Eldad Hagar got a call about a dog named Gaia that had been abandoned on the side of the road in the California Central Valley. While barely surviving in the middle ...

Label it? GMO activists in California say “let’s vote”

I recently had the pleasure of spending the day with NationBuilder Pamm Larry, the voice and force behind the LabelGMOs campaign. About a year and a half ago, Pamm - who is a midwife, farmer, grandmother and mother of thre...

Angry deer hunters take to the internet over Walker policies

Wisconsin's for a while been one of NationBuilder's more active customer bases. Not only has it been one of the hottest places in the country for grassroots activism over the past year, until earlier this month it was the...