What's new at NationBuilder

Use Facebook to grow your nation with ActionSprout

Shawn Kemp, ActionSprout co-founder One of the fundamentals of building and nurturing the community who will help you achieve your goals is reaching people where they are already gathering. This means that to reach you...

With a new organizing platform, Movement for Change will help leaders connect

Movement for Change's new website on the Aware Movement for Change is using community organizing to reconnect people's everyday lives with politics. With local chapters across the United Kingdom, they needed an online...

Grow your community with text messaging

There are a variety of ways to use your nation's virtual phone number to connect with prospects and supporters. Using one of these tactics can give your nation a great boost — viewing them holistically and as an organic ex...

Beautiful, powerful new websites launching on NationBuilder

Here at NationBuilder, we get really excited about new sites launching on the platform. We email them to each other, tweet about them, take screen shots of their homepages and gush over how they keep getting better and bet...

Get efficient! Volunteer Management tips from the field

Volunteers with A Big Project in Valenciennes, France At NationBuilder, I work with campaigns of all sizes. Consistently, I have noticed one thing: regardless of size, many campaigns are not using the simple but extre...

Transparent communities achieve goals faster

Photo by opensourceway, Creative Commons license via Flickr A lot of organizations and movements are built around a hierarchy that obscures access to information. At each level, a supporter receives expanded access to...

Fire up your nation's MVPs with social capital and leaderboards

Social capital (also called "political capital" or "PC") is NationBuilder's currency system. With a little bit of planning and some creative thinking, you can use political capital (or whatever you'd like to call it in you...

Growing roots in the heart of the Silicon Valley

Ask a Sista filled the house on Saturday What a weekend. Sunday morning there's a feeling of sadness in the air and I find myself asking "what happened?" The information and socializing at Netroots moves so quickly: a...

NationBuilder at Netroots Nation: Do you know the way to San Jose?

The drive was long. Chandler, my lovely coworker, and I were on our way to Netroots Nation in San Jose. We grew bored pretty fast so to occupy ourselves, we sang pop-forty songs and made a few stops at California tourist d...

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...