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NationBuilder hosts FFLA Graduation

This past weekend NationBuilder was thrilled to host the Front Line Leaders Academy graduation ceremony. photo by Elizabeth Loza The Front Line Leaders Academy is a leadership development program offered every year b...

Product updates - April 25th edition

Along with a few burst pipe fixes on individual nations here’s the big stuff from last week: Clicking ‘sign out’ on nations with custom domains was bringing people to a sort of scary ‘your connection is not private’ page...

Email update: Emails sending as expected

This morning (Monday AM Pacific Time) emails sent from NationBuilder were delayed due to our email vendor having some unexpected downtime. Everything is back up and running and emails from this morning have been sent. If ...

Silo’d teams will kill your organization. Transparent goals will save it.

NationBuilder solves a really devastating technical problem for our customers. Our newest feature is solving a cultural one. In our years of working with advocacy organizations, nonprofits, political campaigns and brands, ...

Parsed address fields now available on more pages!

Our #1 most requested feature suggestion is now more of a thing - we get it - not being able to put addresses in separate fields can cause some address inaccuracy when people enter their addresses on your site. While pages...

People: the (not so) secret ingredient in winning campaigns

Just over a year ago, I met Nancy Cooke, Director of Political Operations with the PC Party of Manitoba. I quickly learned that her leadership is a driving force behind the party’s organization and modernization - she even...

The Sign-up sheet is dead

Imagine you are the Executive Director of an amazing non-profit. You are standing on stage at your annual gala, staring out into a warm and excited crowd of your supporters. You smile as you begin your speech. I was at a...

(Don’t) mind the gap (in your invoice numbers)

Product update: On Monday evening (4/18) the way that invoices are generated across all nations was changed. In order to complete this change without duplicating any current invoice numbers users of NationBuilder invoicin...

Get out the vote strategies using phone banking

This is a guest post written by Augustus Franklin, founder of CallHub - a hosted voice and text broadcasting system that integrates with NationBuilder. In this post Augustus discusses effective phone-banking strategies he ...

The End of Slacktivism - Turning Social Media Followers into Engaged Supporters

I got my start using NationBuilder as a field organizer on an outsider campaign. We were running against a crowd of well known, established politicians with long sheets of donors and years of list-building behind them. We...

Some NationBuilder Updates!

Have you been hungry for some NationBuilder product updates? We recently sent a survey to a few of our closest NationBuilder friends (20,000 or so) and we hear that you want to know what we've been building - so here we g...

The first open source NationBuilder integration: Algolia search

Several months ago we announced to developers and app partners that we are looking for integrations with our API to offer up to the open-source community. The idea is simple. Take a barebones integration that works with th...

5 Campaign Organizing Tactics and the Films They Resemble

Door knocking – Tried and true - The Shawshank Redemption I’ll be very simple with this one. It works. It works on every level. Target voters, communicate directly, get your message across, and move on to the next house. ...

The One Question I Ask Every Candidate Before They Run

I grew up in a political family. My father was a journalist who became a community organizer, and he wrote several manuals on grassroots organizing and how to win political campaigns. My mother was a teacher who became an ...

Voter data in the UK

At NationBuilder we provide voter data to our customers in the US, and people in the UK often ask us if we can do the same for them. For a number of practical and legal reasons, we can’t. However, if you are entitled to re...