What's new at NationBuilder

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...

You can now drag and drop files into the 'Files' tab of pages

Good news! When adding files to a page you can now drag and drop instead of selecting the files from your computer. You can open your pictures folder or finder or drag right from your desktop right into your files tab!

New political variations of Verve and Publish themes

It's not uncommon for us to receive requests around specific design tweaks to a given stock theme. Often times these tweaks are relative to a customer's industry - colors that convey a more serious tone, for example. Base...

Membership documentation updated

I originally wrote the membership documentation when the feature was released in 2014. At the time, I had two primary concerns: making sure people understood that membership could be assigned for any action taken on a webs...