What's new at NationBuilder

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...

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 ...

9 states with refreshed voter file information

Great News! At NationBuilder we have been working around the clock updating our national voter file. Thus far this election season we have updated Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Isl...

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...