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Nationbuilder stories

NJ Assembly candidate Marie Corfield turns YouTube fame into award-winning grassroots campaign

Marie Corfield, NJ Assembly candidate Marie Corfield is a lifelong New Jersey resident, school teacher, progressive public education advocate and single mother of two. In 2010, her passionate defense of public school f...

Maine State House candidate: ‘Every legislator needs to be accessible on the web’

John Logan Jones Although 26-year-old John Logan Jones is running for elected office for the first time, he’s not a stranger to politics. Jones spent the last year working on U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign ...

Social media and campaign databases making a difference for SF school board challengers

This year, the race for open positions on the San Francisco city school board is highly competitive, with eleven candidates, three of them incumbents, competing for four seats. And in a race that's sometimes seen as a jump...

NationBuilder in Nova Scotia: Building an entire election team from scratch

From the BC Young Liberals to the fledgling Alberta Party to the scrappy campaign of NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen, Canadian politicos and reformers are a significant chapter in NationBuilder's early history. Last...

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...

Slate’s Sasha Issenberg launches new book “The Victory Lab” on NationBuilder

What influences a person to vote one way or the other? One of the hot topics of this year’s election is the role that “big data” is playing in helping to answer this question. The advantage of having access to so much ...