What's new at NationBuilder

Announcing NationBuilder Cities... and our new logo!

Since Jim’s announcement on Wednesday, we’ve received so much love and support from the NationBuilder community. We’re incredibly grateful.

NationBuilder's new CEO

Lea Endres, my co-founder and previously our President, is now our CEO. We’ve been running NationBuilder together for over five years and our plan was always that if anything happened to me, she would take over. Well, this...

Ok, so you got elected… that don’t impress me much

I’ve been reading the same story over and over in the international news—stories about relatively young, recently elected world and party leaders that get elected by riding high on a movement and then face subsequent slum...

API update: type_id no longer required when creating a contact

Effective October 12, 2017 — applications using NationBuilder's Contact API/Create endpoint no longer have to include type_id in the request to create a new contact.

Help for geocoding international addresses, contact type optional in the API and bug fixes

Here’s what we’ve been up to! The ‘contact type’ functionality has been replaced with paths but the ‘contact type’ field was still required in the API - we’ve made it optional. Some people were seeing a button to ‘ref...

[Webinar] How to send emails people actually open, read, and engage

Last week, I hosted the first in our two-part, tech-agnostic webinar series, Key Tactics in Effective Email Advocacy. The response was amazing—thanks to all who tuned in! Find the recording, plus related resources below.

Profile signup type added to tag share, email search added to the API & some control panel fixes

Recent product updates and bug fixes! When sharing profiles via tag share the signup type is shared as well - so sharing an organization profile will keep it an organization and not change it to a person We added email...

NationBuilder, RunForOffice.org, and BallotReady create the first public database of school board positions for all 50 states

Nine months ago, NationBuilder and RunForOffice.org embarked on a uniquely ambitious project: to map all the electable positions in school districts in the US with the help of dedicated volunteers. Since then, a total of 2...

Using volunteer management and beautiful web design to grow your nonprofit

Nonprofits know the pillars of success for their organization. Yes, fundraising and a digital existence are obvious ones, but what about the more specific tasks at hand?

Open source event sync tool

The following is a guest post by certified NationBuilder Agency, Code Nation. For support requests please contact this developer directly at [email protected] The future of campaigning is not just digital. It’s the past...

[Webinar] How to do more with Organization Features - Webinar Followup & links

Thank you to everyone who attended our Organization Features Webinar on Wednesday, September 20th! Did you miss the webinar? Don’t worry - we have it recorded and are doing it again on October 25th!

Filtering by Township & Ward, updates to flash messages and fixes to the control panel

Product updates for the past two weeks! You can also filter by 'completed' on our Issues & Suggestion page to see these announcements as they are completed! We are working on updating events and are looking for beta t...

New Political Party in Australia, a better way to view Australia on a map & nulling out a zip via the API!

We added Liberal Democrats to the list of political parties available in Australia. There was an issue with domains hosted on NationBuilder failing which has been addressed and fixed! Here’s a hard one to explain! Ma...

Changes to how you log contacts with paths, survey question order, theme updates & more!

Some recent product updates: You can now log a contact (via batch update, log on a person’s profile and send a 1x1 email) without specifying a path! This was originally intended to tie all communications to an engagement ...

Petition improvements (including a new filter!) and email list subscription fixes for your supporters who take action

We’ve made some improvements to NationBuilder petition pages! You can now filter on ‘has signed (specific petition)’ this will make it easier to target outreach to people who have signed one (or more!) specific petitions...