What's new at NationBuilder

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...

NationBuilder Enterprise now supports Single Sign-on (SAML)

If you maintain your own SAML-based Identity Provider, or use a third party to federate identity (like Google Apps, OneLogin, Okta etc.), you can now sign in to your nation with that identity provider. SSO is commonly used...

Send us your NationBuilder issues and feature suggestions, we’re listening

One of your most common requests is for more information about and input into when your issues and feature suggestions will be addressed, so we’re pleased to announce that we’re putting it online! How are we going to do i...

Getting your email delivered

You’re running a campaign and you are gathering lots of email addresses. You want to make the most of them. But when you send emails, people are telling you they aren’t getting them, or that they are ending up in spam fold...

Introducing Agency certification

One of the coolest things we've witnessed within the NationBuilder ecosystem is the growth of companies - not just in size or experience, but in the expansion of services offered as well. Seeing Architects build unique and...

NationBuilder - Le Guide Pratique

Avis à nos lecteurs et nos clients français, un de nos experts certifié Francophone à fait le travail incroyable de compiler un guide pratique et plutôt complet sur NationBuilder, et le tout en Français, d'après 'NationBu...

Creating an intuitive editing experience for admins

"Where do I edit this &%*# page content?!". It's a question (i.e. panic) that no designer wants to hear from their client - especially when this content is quite nested in a site's architecture. Creating a positive adm...

Differences between US and European field mapping

‘Fields’ (in other words individual categories of data which you import from your .csv files into NationBuilder) are the cornerstone of your database. It’s essential they are well labelled and contain the right format of d...

How to look after your people - a European perspective on strategic relationship management with NationBuilder

You’ve set up your nation, you’ve imported your people, you’re pumped for the next step. What now? How to engage the people in your database? This blog post will shed light on how to best look after your people, how to bes...

Australian Federal districts for NSW, ACT, and WA updated

Just in case you missed it - we updated Federal districts for NSW, ACT, and WA in Australia. We also added State Electoral Districts and Local Government Areas for WA recently. NSW, ACT, and WA were redistricted in 2016 so...