What's new at NationBuilder

Pre-election updates

We’re less than a month out from Election Day in the U.S. and we know that most of you have been working for this day for a very long time. And we have, too. We’ve been bulletproofing our infrastructure all year, and have ...

Target community influencers for expatriate engagement with ethnic and gender data appends

The more you know about your potential supporters the easier it is to engage with them on the issues they care about. NamSor can help with a simple but important part of that by inferring gender and ethnicity/origin data a...

Create invoices, get paid, and track your finances in one place

Generating invoices for clients online has proven to be more efficient. Online invoicing saves you time and money, and reduces your chances of making errors.

You can now finalize invoices, batch delete empty people tags, and save page templates from the preview page

Updates to NationBuilder this week include changes to invoices, page templates and people tags! You can now refund a payment in several partial refunds. Page templates can be published directly from the preview page. 123 C...

Accept mobile donations specifically geared towards political campaigns

eFundraising Connections is a payment processor built to make campaign fundraising easy, secure, mobile and with compliance in mind. eFundraising Connections provides a mobile card swiper that works on both iOS and Android...

Countable's direct advocacy tool syncs supporter actions with your nation

Countable is a civic tech company that helps make government simple. They do this by building impactful advocacy tools to empower citizens, turn people into advocates, and convert supporters into change-makers. With mobile...

Campaign 101: Get ready for GOTV

We are just 35 short days left until Election Day 2016 and campaigns are about to enter the most crucial time of the election, GOTV or Get Out the Vote. During the last few weeks before election day, you don’t waste any ti...

13 more states with refreshed voter file information

There are 39 days left in this election and things are already starting to heat up here at NationBuilder. Since our last update, we have refreshed DC, Texas, West Virginia, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, North...

Get results specific to contact sender, recipient and broadcaster via the NationBuilder contact API

A recent update to the contact API extends the ability to index contacts. Additional parameters that can be used to index contacts include: author_id - the NationBuilder id of the contact sender person_id - the NationBu...

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...