What's new at NationBuilder

Get Out the Vote! Add the Voting Information Project widget to your NationBuilder site

You have put tons of hours into your campaign and primary day is around the corner. Now, the most important question your website needs to answer is “Where do I vote?” NationBuilder and the Voting Information Project (VI...

Don't email blast the voter file

You’re in a rush: your candidate doesn’t have an email list of supporters because it’s the first time they’ve run for office. To make matters worse, you desperately need money and an easy way to reach out to voters. If you...

Creating a sitemap for website administrators

Two weeks ago, Brian Tippy posted about using Liquid to create intuitive ways for site administrators to seamlessly move between the client-side website and back-end CMS platform for page editing. This is perfect for letti...

Updated Ecosystem logos and brand board

We recently updated the certified Ecosystem logos - Architect, Expert, Developer, Agency - with a fresh and standardized look. Being that our partners often use these logos on their own site, in blog posts, etc., we though...

Updated Auto-districting for the United Kingdom

Running a campaign in the United Kingdom? Great news - we've updated our shapefiles for the entire country this week to correspond with newly drawn district boundaries (Wards in particular), and have also included Scottish...

Reporting and compliance come to NationBuilder with the new Aristotle Sync integration

Aristotle Sync is an integrated PAC and government relations web application. Aristotle Sync is a robust contact management platform that supports all PAC related activities such as fundraising, communications and Federal ...

When time’s ticking: 3 tips on how to build a short-term campaign

Sometimes, you don’t have bags of time to run a campaign. Sometimes, a referendum is just around the corner and you only have 4 months to mobilise the whole country (much like is happening before the EU referendum in the U...

Easily translate your site with Bablic

This is a guest post written by Gabriele Manasse, founder of Bablic - a machine and human translation tool that can be inserted into your NationBuilder site(s) and translate your webpage with a single line of code. In a...

Culture by design: how we created our new jobs page

Culture can be...well...difficult. It’s difficult to foster, evolve, and even explain. At a company like NationBuilder, culture is the oil of our engine. We need it to drive our mission forward - which makes it especially ...

Get the best open rates using text messaging

Text messages have an open rate of 98%, which is significantly higher than that of emails. Yet, text messaging is a communication channel that often gets overlooked. If you’re in charge of creating a stream of communicatio...

Enhance your nation with demographic and voter interest data

Advocacy Data is a leader in enhancing voter files, offering a turn-key solution to build on your existing data. As a NationBuilder customer, you can take advantage of an exclusive offer to leverage the voter data already ...

Community: Does this thing scale? A deeper look at NationBuilder Network

Our classic models for scaling communities are broken, but there’s a new way The most vexing challenge for modern community organizers is one of scale: Effective grassroots organizing demands that leaders build authentic,...

4 Steps to Win Donors, Activists, and Voters with Email

This is the first installment in a 5-part series on best email practices Whether you’re brand new to email or a veteran with decades of marketing experience, these steps will help you win more donors, activists, and voters...

4 steps (literally) for better communication using paths

We’ve all been in in the spot where, when logging a contact or sending an email, we’re not sure what path to log it to. Managing those 1:1 communications efficiently and in a way where I could get some stats back on my wor...

All United States State Legislature Seats: Now live on RunForOffice.org

At RunForOffice.org we just published all 7000+ state legislature seats in the United States and made those positions address-searchable, accompanied by easy to understand directions to get yourself on the ballot. The stat...