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4 top tips for effective NationBuilder fundraising

Giving Tuesday is coming up on the 29th November 2016. In spirit of this big global fundraising event, we've put together a blog post to share some tips on fundraising using the NationBuilder functionality. You can also...

Starting up a membership program with NationBuilder

Whatever your organisation type, running a membership program is a great way to get your supporters more involved and committed to your organisation. Memberships are used from the smallest community groups to the largest p...

Avoid creating duplicate voter profiles: how state file ID and county file ID work

Since voters can move, and a single nation can contain voters from multiple locations, state file ID becomes a unique identifier when it is combined with the registered state field. The first time a voter is imported, the ...

The importance of partnerships

You’ve heard the old adage rising tides float all boats? The core concept of this still rings true - working together to advance your cause benefits all involved. It’s why political candidates that run with a party general...

Leveraging your network

Leveraging your network is like picking the low hanging fruit. You can climb the tree and search for new fruit near the top, but you’re missing all the ripe and ready fruit on your way up. Leveraging your network doesn’t j...

Telling your story

You’ve checked all the boxes to set your nonprofit up for success - you’ve set up multiple ways for supporters to engage with you, you’ve targeted your list to send personal communications. So where are your supporters? Yo...

Debriefing the Learn to Code LA event at NationBuilder HQ

It can be difficult for aspiring developers to know where to start in their education - front, back or full-stack, which language, what to build, etc. Even more difficult is knowing where to apply this education as a care...

Resources brought to you by NationBuilder certified partners

Earlier this week we started wrangling all of the documentation and resources for our certified partner network into a single corral (liking these ranch puns yet?). A new page for these resources is coming soon. However, ...

New paths API

We're happy to announce that we now have a paths API with the ability to index paths and steps in a nation.

11 more states with refreshed voter file information

Looking for data? Good, because we just might have it! We have recently updated Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Hawaii, Oregon, and Florida with 2016 registration and...

6 more states with refreshed voter file information

More updates and more data! With a little bit of love and magic, we transform the plethora of formats and file types that we receive to a single standardized format that can easily be used for targeting and GOTV efforts. S...

Improvements to updating voters on state/county file ID

We released changes today that make it easier to append information to the right voters in your database via import. As we get closer to the US elections, many of our political customers are getting files with early vote ...

Staged donation form now available for Bootstrap themes

There was a lot of excitement when we first introduced a staged donation kit for the Aware theme and baked it into the stock themes that followed. This created a more elegant experience for donors and resulted in higher ...

7 more states with refreshed voter file information

Ready, get set, DATA! To ensure timely updates of our national voter file we make sure to follow each state’s election schedule and order files as soon as they become available. Since our last blog post we have updated Con...

No Phone Support August 15th and 16th

NationBuilder staff will be in a company-wide meeting on Monday, August 15 and Tuesday, August 16. We will regularly be checking and responding to tech support emails between 8am-5pm PT during this time, but phone support ...