What's new at NationBuilder

The bottom carries the top

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison You want to know the best way to attract more voters to your political party’s candidates and win elections? Ma...

NationBuilder Network documentation available

As a member of the Product team and a long-time user, the NationBuilder Network launch excited me. To support the launch, Janice Kim and I put together a new section of documentation. The NationBuilder Network documentati...

Debriefing the first design community meetup at NationBuilder HQ

Back on July 13th, NationBuilder hosted the 2nd-ever Sketch LA event- the official Sketch meetup group for Los Angeles. Sketch is an immensely popular tool among designers of all sorts but the community around it, specifi...

Create custom membership cards using data in your nation

You can create custom designed membership cards for your members and add information from their NationBuilder profile on the card. You can email the membership card using a custom email template to a member whenever he/she...

NationBuilder Network: How do you know you're a network?

I am a sorority woman. When I was in college, I established myself as a leader in the Greek community, with the intent of leaving the community stronger than it was when I joined. I focused on the lasting impact I could ha...

Three questions to ask yourself to help get more supporters

A question I hear a lot is ‘what can NationBuilder do to get me more supporters?’. It’s a difficult question to answer, and isn’t really a helpful one to ask. The question I ask people to consider instead is ‘How can I use...

NationBuilder Network: The Key to Scaling a Political Party

Running a political party is a bit like trying to manage chaos. Your county party leaders are primarily concerned with unique local issues; your state caucuses in the House and the Senate rarely have standardized processes...

How to ace the Expert certification

So you’ve participated in the courses and workshops, read the documentation, even participated in a training session, and you’re wondering what the next big step is for you with NationBuilder. Well, the NationBuilder Exper...

Network is a philosophy

Before joining the team at NationBuilder, I was a NationBuilder customer as the Director of Operations for a political party in Canada. I wore many hats during my time with the party, and one of them was coordinating (read...

NationBuilder Network: What does it take to lead a network?

Today, we launched NationBuilder Network, and I feel particularly lucky to have gotten to work with a wide array of our users as they’ve grown into Network leaders. Seeing people start off in a mindset where building a net...

NationBuilder Network -- our new product for distributed organizations

When we launched NationBuilder, there wasn’t a product for people who cared more about organizing people than content. If you wanted your own action website, donations and email, you needed at least three different systems...

Potential new voters now available through Accurate Append

This is a guest post by Adriel Hampton, growth consultant for Accurate Append through his digital consulting firm, AHG and former VP of Business Development at NationBuilder. Between 40 and 80 million eligible adults are n...

You can now update created_at through the people API, and add "capital" when logging a contact through the contact API.

A recent update to the public API includes writable fields for the following resources: created_at - a writable attribute for the people API that can be used to bring over the creation date of a record from another syste...

The importance of partner reviews

The regular cruisers of NationBuilder.com may have noticed we recently consolidated our partner directories into a single space. With a growing ecosystem of amazing freelancers, studios and agencies, it was becoming increa...

Adding a fixed control panel nav menu to your custom theme

Navigation menus. The steering wheel and Thomas Guide (do those still exist?) of websites. It can be quite a task to get them right - especially when providing control panel users with an intuitive menu of items. A month o...