What's new at NationBuilder

Lead people to action with paths

With paths, one of NationBuilder’s newest features, you can create custom steps for leading people to take action towards larger goals. Why are paths useful? The problem Paths solve a common challenge. As a leader, you a...

How to increase your video-to-donation conversion rate

Every campaign, organization, and company has a story: Why are you running for office? How does your nonprofit make a difference? What does your business stand for? A powerful story can attract new supporters and turn exis...

Learn more about new NationBuilder features

While our engineering and product teams were busy building the features that launched on Tuesday, the education team built out material to explain how to use it all. Here's an overview of the 11 new HOWTOs and 3 new videos...

Ever want to access your people database via mobile?

Have you ever wanted to access your nation to add, find, or update a contact while being away from your computer? Good news!

NationBuilder's biggest upgrade ever

NationBuilder is software for leaders, and for the last eighteen months, we’ve really been digging into what that means. Leadership is about humans, which makes it inherently difficult. Being a leader isn't easy – you need...

Software for leaders - introducing a new way to use NationBuilder

Since I joined NationBuilder over two years ago, we have been talking about what the core experience of using the product should be. NationBuilder has always been an incredibly powerful and deeply integrated set of tools, ...

Service is sacred

At NationBuilder, service is sacred. In order to better serve our own growing community, we’re updating the way we provide support. A few months ago, we created the Frontline customer service team to provide more personal,...

More inclusive vote history

I'm excited to let you know that NationBuilder now supports vote history for all types of elections. Full support for international and U.S. municipal elections Previously we only supported Federal and State elections for ...

Architect Spotlight: Herman-Scheer

How do you create a website that's not just beautiful but built for action? That's the focus of our Architect Spotlight Series, featuring insights from certified NationBuilder Architects. This week we hear from Herman-Sche...

How “For Stratford” is encouraging local political involvement

"I’ve been a NationBuilder Community Strategist for the past 2 years, and over that time I’ve been able to work with amazing groups that are fighting for change in their communities. For this week’s Customer Spotlight, I ...

Update on Democracy Engine donation failures

Earlier today, a Democracy Engine server configuration issue caused some contributions made on NationBuilder websites through Democracy Engine to fail. We have been in contact with Democracy Engine and were notified that t...

Implementing a custom Google Search using NationBuilder

This is a guest post from Corey at Code Nation, a highly-revered certified Architect firm based in both Brisbane, Australia and Bogotá, Colombia. Corey often pushes the boundaries of the NationBuilder framework and generou...

Build a movement with 5 different kinds of data

Is your email list spread out over a bunch of Excel files? Do you only guess about the number of donors who follow you on Twitter? Are you volunteers cold calling groups of people with no background information? If so, it ...

A new header for the control panel

We made a small (but I think delightful) change to the interface of the control panel today. We've eliminated the footer and moved all the relevant links and functionality into a dropdown in the header. If you're looking ...

Architect Spotlight: Mosaic Strategies

How do you create a website that's not just beautiful but built for action? That's the focus of our Architect Spotlight Series, featuring insights from certified NationBuilder Architects. This week we hear from Mosaic Stra...