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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...

Food Revolution Day is today

Food Revolution Day at NationBuilder The food revolution to keep cooking skills alive is being celebrated today, May 17. This is the second annual day, with events occurring around the world. From the Food Revolution D...

Add a Tumblr stream to your website

So you want a page full of all those gorgeous images you add to your Tumblr? Good news! It's pretty easy to embed your Tumblr stream onto a NationBuilder page! Check out Adriel's snazzy Tumblr stream on his Adriel Nation ...

Keeping in communication with your supporters

For any campaign, business, nonprofit, or creative venture it's important to keep in contact with your most vocal supporters. With mailboxes and virtual phone numbers, NationBuilder makes it easy for you by routing your ca...

Putting people first: the cornerstone of the 501(c)onference and NationBuilder

Last week, I attended the Center for Nonprofit Management’s 501(c)onference. I enjoyed meeting others who care about their communities and are interested in using organizing strategies to achieve their mission. Putting peo...

Custom fields are here

Custom fields have long been one of your most requested features, particularly from larger organizations who want to use NationBuilder to unify their existing mess of databases, spreadsheets and websites into one platform....

BC Greens pick up first-ever legislative seat

Climate change expert Andrew Weaver made history last night as the first Green Party member to be elected to the British Columbia legislature. Weaver won in a competitive three-way race that saw the incumbent lose her seat...

South Orange, two years later

Two years ago, NationBuilder alpha customer Alex Torpey became Village President of South Orange, NJ. Inc. magazine dubbed the 23-year-old independent "The Social Media" mayor and the win propelled the social media consult...

In decisive victory, Melvin Priester wins seat on Jackson, MS city council

In Mississippi's democratic primary on Tuesday, attorney Melvin Priester won the Jackson city council seat of outgoing Councilman Chokwe Lumumba who left to pursue a bid for mayor. A Jackson native and first time candidate...

Every dog has its day: Using NationBuilder to save hundreds of dogs in West Virginia

Chelsea Staley and her husband, Mark, love dogs. They have more than 10 - six permanent and four rescue - at their 20 acre home in Charleston, West Virginia. When they adopted their first puppy, he was so ill that he didn'...