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Behind the deli counter or on Reddit: Rep. Diane Russell knows how to rally support

Maine Rep. Diane Russell Representative Diane Russell is a connector. Long before assuming office in 2008, Russell had a fundamental belief in connecting one-on-one with her community. After college, she worked full-t...

Challenge machine politics with NationBuilder

Dan Cowen (left) at community meeting. Photo courtesy of the Cowen campaign Dan Cowen recently graduated from Syracuse University and is running for Syracuse Councilor At-Large. His campaign challenges the machine po...

Dan in London, encouraging women in STEM

Our VP of Engineering, Dan Walmsley, participated in the Ungrounded flight from British Airways last night. The 'hackathon' involved getting 100+ innovative thinkers on a plane and forcing them to chat without wifi about e...

Get visual by embedding Instagram!

So there's something you should know about me: I snap a lot of photos. Everyday, I obsessively document my surroundings, my mundane routines, my adventuring on Saturday's, my friends, and of course, lots of artwork. When I...

British Airways has hijacked our geeks to help change the world

Today, our VP of Engineering, Dan Walmsley, is taking off on a flight unlike any other. He's been hijacked along with more than 100 leaders and prominent thinkers who will take part in British Airways inaugural "Innovation...

Visualize your nation's metrics with growth view

When you log into your nation, you are taken to the control panel which is the hub of a nation's organizing efforts. You could spend hours reading about people's interactions with one another from Dashboard > Activity b...

NationBuilder's Adriel Hampton named to Rising Stars of politics

Every year since 1988, Campaigns & Elections has recognized the best and the brightest in politics by crowning a new class of Rising Stars. The inaugural class included David Axelrod, James Carville, Alex Castellanos, ...

Blast responsibly: How to reengage your email subscribers

Building an email list is a key part of any organizing effort; but it's also important to regularly audit and maintain that list to ensure you're talking to people who want to hear from you. In this video, C.J. MinsterChen...

Closing the gender gap in California politics

Women. Politics. Progress. It’s not just California; the lack of women holding elected office is a national epidemic. Still, the statistics in the Golden State are as shocking as they are revealing. There is a tremendous ...

From front porches to Twitter feeds: How to meet voters where they are

Voters today are no longer paying attention to political ads on TV; they're listening to the voices of real people. But with more than eighty percent of American's living in large metropolitan areas, constant mobility and ...

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...