Advocate for your community

Advocate for your community

Building an Engaged Email List

This is the second installment in a 5-part series on best email practices. Last week we gave a bird’s eye view of building a winning email program with two important concepts for growing an email list. This week we’ll buil...

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How Saskatchewan Union of Nurses made the difference

When cash-strapped hospitals cut staff levels and replaced registered nurses (RNs) with less trained health providers, the Saskatchewan Nurses Union launched a successful awareness campaign to defend the jobs of thousands ...

When time’s ticking: 3 tips on how to build a short-term campaign

Sometimes, you don’t have bags of time to run a campaign. Sometimes, a referendum is just around the corner and you only have 4 months to mobilise the whole country (much like is happening before the EU referendum in the U...

Community: Does this thing scale? A deeper look at NationBuilder Network

Our classic models for scaling communities are broken, but there’s a new way The most vexing challenge for modern community organizers is one of scale: Effective grassroots organizing demands that leaders build authentic,...

4 Steps to Win Donors, Activists, and Voters with Email

This is the first installment in a 5-part series on best email practices Whether you’re brand new to email or a veteran with decades of marketing experience, these steps will help you win more donors, activists, and voters...

Want to ascend as a communications pro? You’ll have to get really good at data.

If you work in advocacy, nonprofits or public affairs, your title has the word ‘communications’ in it, and you’re not hungry as hell to get better at all things data, you’re falling behind. Fast. You’re a storyteller at h...

Silo’d teams will kill your organization. Transparent goals will save it.

NationBuilder solves a really devastating technical problem for our customers. Our newest feature is solving a cultural one. In our years of working with advocacy organizations, nonprofits, political campaigns and brands, ...

The top 3 mistakes in event organizing, and how to do it better with NationBuilder

Events are among the most powerful ways to organize your community because they involve face-to-face interaction with your supporters. In-person engagement is where relationships are built and strengthened. But the success...

Empower your supporters and influence decision-makers with NewMode’s Community Engagement Toolbox for NationBuilder

Too many organizations are reinventing the wheel, spending thousands to develop custom engagement tools. Tested by some of the world’s most successful digital campaigners, NewMode’s community engagement tools are sophistic...