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Eight Million

Two years ago today, I came to the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City to share my story. I was utterly terrified, but hoped to inspire all the people I respected so much to believe in the possibilities of a connecte...

NationBuilder's new theme gallery

Recently, I worked with the design team, Jesse Haff, Lilia Villa, and Jan Cavan, to create NationBuilder's first ever theme gallery. Whether you need a site for your new indie film or are a political campaign just getting ...

Building nonprofit community with Young Nonprofit Professionals Network

Nathan Gardner of YNPNsfba Fifteen years ago, twelve ambitious nonprofit professionals got together in San Francisco in an effort to create their own change in the nonprofit community. They started Young Nonprofit Prof...

NAACP's Leadership 500 inspires a new generation of emerging leaders

Lauren Brown with NAACP chairman Rosalyn Brock Prior to traveling down to Naples, Florida to attend the NAACP’s Leadership 500 Summit last week, I had little familiarity with the organization. I knew it evolved out of ...

Social media wisdom from Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a man of complex character. He was an influential writer and a war correspondent; but the many movies and novels that try to make sense of his life also paint him as a boozy, self-absorbed womanizer. W...

The League's Jon Lajoie kick starts his pursuit of your cash money

Crowdfunding is growing in popularity, with everyone from independent emergency service groups to celebrities taking to the internet to ask for funds. Comedian Jon Lajoie launched his own 'kickstarter,' illuminating how ab...

Organic search ranking optimization

Recently, I created a website. Confused about why my site wasn't showing up in Google search, I spoke with our Online Marketing Manager, Matthew Pancione. He helped me understand how to optimize my site's organic search ra...

Aware: from your desktop to your pocket

Our newest theme release marks a major upgrade for your websites. Aware is a responsive theme, which means the design automatically adapts to the size of a visitor’s screen, from desktop to tablet to mobile phone. Aware a...

Turning LA’s back alley into a thriving public space

Kayaking on the LA River on Memorial Day Riding along on the Los Angeles river bike path - my favorite place to bike in the city - I'm always fascinated by the views of nature integrated into the urban landscape. The r...

Our first adventure in nation building

This past weekend, a brave group of people came to NationBuilder HQ in downtown LA for our first ever NationBuilder Adventure – a unique mashup of training, storytelling, and community organizing designed to help folks ...

A creative community at LA Makerspace

The 11th floor of LA Mart is home to hidden hallways of creative spaces. But among the most unique is LA Makerspace, a hackspace dedicated to tech education for youth and adults. Director of LA Makerspace, Tara Tiger Brown...

'Have a real problem': Jim Gilliam on Silicon Valley culture

In this clip from Kevin Rose's Foundation video series, NationBuilder CEO Jim Gilliam answers a question from the audience about how to foster big world-changing ideas in Silicon Valley instead of Instagram and Pinterest c...

Garcetti takes LA mayor's race - leaders using NationBuilder fare well across the board

Three-term City Councilman Eric Garcetti won the Los Angeles mayor's race decisively yesterday, 54 to 46 in initial returns against runoff opponent Wendy Greuel, the City Controller. Garcetti's aggressive grassroots cam...

All together now: Bridge the Gap Technology conference recap

On Friday, organizer Sri Kavuru spoke at Bridge the Gap Technology conference on the panel "Building a Community for Social Change" with Dove Pressnall of Survivors' Truths. Survivors' Truths creates media projects to sup...

Email design tips to optimize deliverability

Designing an email template is not like building for the web. Each email provider receiving your messages has their own set of HTML standards and idiosyncrasies that tend to be behind the times. Knowing how to build an em...