What's new at NationBuilder

Meet the top 5 volunteers making it easier than ever to 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...

NationBuilder staff summit - Limited technical support

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...

Better events management

Create settings for all events under a calendar page, and filter for people who RSVP’d, attended, or hosted a specific event.

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

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...

Two challenger candidates who beat the odds

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...

Unpublished Facebook posts are now supported in NationBuilder

People who like your unpublished page posts (sometimes referred to as ‘dark posts’) from Facebook will now be added to your nation just like people who engage with regular page posts.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...

Announcing Action, a new stock theme by cStreet

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...

NationBuilder 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...

Talk before you vote: a Congressional campaign experiment

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 ...

NationBuilder match désactivé en France

La CNIL a publié des recommandations applicables aux campagnes politiques.

New and improved theme development with Dropbox

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...

Customize how you export data

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...

How NationBuilder wrangles voter data with Trifacta

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.

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

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...

More accurate subpage counts, better Linkedin filtering, and a magic checkbox that lets you send autoresponses to suggestion followers whenever you want

Some good news! We fixed a problem that was making it impossible to view the recipients of your past text blasts. Looking for everyone that has Linkedin data in your nation? Filtering for people who have Linkedin dat...