What's new at NationBuilder

You're dynamic...and so is your story.

Last week, I had the chance to facilitate five classes about storytelling at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Over the course of three days, I worked with management students, teachers in training, and theater students...

Designing the NationBuilder way poster

A couple of months ago, I jotted down some thoughts about the differences of designing themes on NationBuilder versus other platforms. This fostered an entertaining dialogue among the rest of the NationBuilder design team,...

Bootstrap framework now available for building custom themes

Bootstrap is the most popular framework for developing responsive websites in the world. It's also the best documented. Not surprisingly, integrating it into NationBuilder has been one of the most frequent requests we've ...

The "white-label" option

Designers face a dilemma every now and again. We love the customer, understand their mission, and have a burning desire to help them succeed - but their maximum budget doesn't quite meet our minimum rate. So we start chopp...

Anatomy of a NationBuilder app

Tectonica recently launched a PHP-based "Tools" library for NationBuilder, including importers for MailChimp, Constant Contact and Gmail contacts as signup records. They've graciously shared their workflow. And if you wan...

What you can do with your NationBuilder Voter File

What's in the NationBuilder voter file? In short? It's everything you need to run for office, make scientific predictions about who will elect the next president, and research voting histories as well as demographics to u...

NationBuilder control panel improvements

We just rolled out a few usability improvements to the People and Finances sections. If you use the control panel a lot, these updates should save you a good bit of time. Single person view. Now, when you view an individu...

Updates to Finances: running totals and more!

We're excited to announce an update to the interface of the Finances section that makes it more useful and more consistent with the rest of the product. The first thing to notice is that there is now a running total of all...

People section updates simplify workflow

The People section just got smarter. Now you can create a universe and engage everyone in that universe within the same browser window. A few ways the new single person view simplifies event planning and followup: Wan...

Architect Interview: ALSO Collective

Toronto's own ALSO Collective have been certified as Architects since November of 2014. As evidenced by their video profile below, they are fascinatingly creative and brilliant at fusing together digital art and storytelli...

To be, or not to be...a long-scroll theme

We've all seen and loved, and maybe even created, our own long-scroll homepage at one point in time. You know that style I'm talking about - the one with slick parallax scrolling, humble-brag headlines, and the animated nu...

Why Every Nonprofit Should Organize

Does your nonprofit engagement strategy consist of a weekly email blast alongside the occasional Facebook post? If the answer is yes, you’re not alone! As a nonprofit organizer, I see hundreds of organizations struggling t...

2014 Word of the Year

Merriam-Webster recently announced the 2014 word of the year: culture. The criteria required to earn such a title? Sheer number of internet searches. Apparently, “culture” made a lot of folks curious this year. Joshua Rot...

Building community one story at a time

Two years ago, I found myself sitting around a dinner table with some truly impressive people. One started LA’s premiere social impact focused co-working space. Another had recently published an op-ed in the New York Times...

The art of a good work agreement

Oh, legalities. They are the probably the most drab part of any project process - like fluorescent white light flooding a dark, hip lounge at last call. However, despite its "hall monitor" nature, it's also one of the mo...