What's new at NationBuilder

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...

Personalization is king! Gather these 5 types of data and take the throne

Are you tracking volunteers in Google Sheets? Do you know which of your major donors are Twitter influencers? Is your team making event turn out calls to targets who’ve already RSVP’d? If so, it might be time to get all yo...

Find your people and pages faster with the improved quick search

At NationBuilder, we believe leadership starts with putting people at the center of everything you do. Today, we’re making it even easier to find, update, and further engage those people by displaying results as soon as yo...

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Je m’appelle Flore et je suis Community Strategist à Londres. J’aide nos clients dans les milieux politiques, des entreprises et des associations à atteindre leurs objectifs. Aujourd’hui j’ai une demande spéciale à vous fa...