What's new at NationBuilder

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...

Congrats to the 2017 Reed Award winners

NationBuilder is fortunate to have such an amazing ecosystem of partners doing work on our platform. Some of the best creatives, developers, and strategists on the planet are helping our customers do pretty incredible orga...

Because I'm (h)API! Quick guide to NationBuilder's API

Reading time - approx 5 mins NationBuilder is a great, extensive, integrated product which can do a lot, covering four key pillars; People, Website, Communications, and Finances. However, each customer is different and mi...

3 tricks for managing important relationships in NationBuilder

Earlier this week, we played around with Facebook Live to see if it'd be a good vehicle for sharing some bite-sized training opportunities with the NationBuilder community. We covered three simple tips for managing relati...

Update on EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

Nothing has changed for our EU customers as a result of President Trump’s recent executive order. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield remains in place, and the European Commission has stated that there is no relevance of the new or...

Improve your email stats by sending targeted emails

By Janice Kim and Steven Ke 5 minutes We know how important it is to send emails, and not just any emails, but really good ones. In 2016, NationBuilder customers have sent over 1.5 billion emails. So, we did some digging a...

Giving voters peace of mind

On November 8th, 2016, small-business owner Guy Palumbo won a seat in the State Senate for the 1st Legislative District in Washington state. To get there, Guy had to win a highly contested Democratic primary against a seas...