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You can now integrate Slack with your nation

Posted by · July 05
TAGGED API & Integrations
Lincoln Bot was developed by certified NationBuilder developer Sean Walberg to sync your nation with the team messaging app Slack. Using Lincoln Bot, you can query Slack about the state of your nation. Lincoln Bot lets you... Continue reading

Meet the top 5 volunteers making it easier than ever to run for office

Posted by · June 14
TAGGED Win your election Run for office
When Jim Cupples teamed up with NationBuilder to start RunForOffice.org (RFO) in March of 2016, he did so to help even the playing field for civically engaged people entering politics for the first time. RFO serves a purpo... Continue reading

NationBuilder staff summit - Limited technical support

Posted by · June 01
TAGGED Service updates
NationBuilder staff will be in an all-day staff summit from Monday, June 6th to Friday, June 9th. During this week we will be turning off phone support and will only be checking email periodically throughout the day. We wi... Continue reading

Better events management

Posted by · May 29
TAGGED Product updates
Create settings for all events under a calendar page, and filter for people who RSVP’d, attended, or hosted a specific event. Continue reading

Behind the scenes of James Thompson's stunning campaign in Kansas

Posted by · May 18
TAGGED Win your election
A few days ago, I shared about Mike Connolly, a challenger who took on an incumbent in the Democratic primary and won. Today, I’d like to share with you another improbable story. James Thompson is a Democrat who didn’t let... Continue reading

Two challenger candidates who beat the odds

Posted by · May 17
TAGGED Win your election
NationBuilder levels the playing field for those who are called to lead by making powerful organizing tools available to all. We want to help more leaders—and better leaders—find, engage, and serve their communities around... Continue reading

Unpublished Facebook posts are now supported in NationBuilder

Posted by · May 03
TAGGED Product updates
People who like your unpublished page posts (sometimes referred to as ‘dark posts’) from Facebook will now be added to your nation just like people who engage with regular page posts. This means that you can now gather mor... Continue reading

Announcing Action, a new stock theme by cStreet

Posted by · April 20
TAGGED Product updates Design
About two years ago, NationBuilder collaborated with cStreet to create Publish, one of the most popular site themes for bloggers, writers, and activists across our network. Now, drawing on feedback from their 100+ NationBu... Continue reading

NationBuilder Integrations

Posted by · April 19
TAGGED API & Integrations
We have written about NationBuilder myths in the past. Due to the competitive environment of political and nonprofit software, we feel the need to correct assumptions the public may have about us. In this blog post, I woul... Continue reading

Talk before you vote: a Congressional campaign experiment

Posted by · April 03
TAGGED Win your election NationBuilder Events
With the sweeping change in U.S. politics has come an exponential rise in participation from everyday citizens (myself included)—whether we’re simply learning more about local elections, contacting our representatives, or ... Continue reading

NationBuilder match désactivé en France

Posted by · March 31
TAGGED Europe
  La CNIL a publié des recommandations applicables aux campagnes politiques. Continue reading

New and improved theme development with Dropbox

Posted by · March 16
TAGGED Product updates Design
Whether you customize your website with one of our ready-to-use, responsive themes or choose to build a theme yourself, we’re making it more convenient and collaborative to edit, preview and publish your nation’s website t... Continue reading

Customize how you export data

Posted by · March 09
TAGGED Product updates
We’re excited to announce that we have added a new custom option when exporting people from your nation. No more scrolling past columns and columns in your export trying to find the relevant information - now you can choos... Continue reading

How NationBuilder wrangles voter data with Trifacta

Posted by · February 26
TAGGED Win your election API & Integrations
An inside look, courtesy of Trifacta, into how our team builds and maintains a national voter file freely accessible to everybody, featuring the amazing Gina Davis, Vice President of Professional Services. Continue reading

Fake it 'til you make it: 3 tricks that'll make you look like a filter master

Posted by · February 23
TAGGED Strategy
We did it again! We went live on Facebook to teach people simple tricks to “fake it til you make it” as a NationBuilder super organizer. In this video, we discuss 3 ways to use filtering to make yourself into an organizing... Continue reading