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Kathleen O'Connor Ives wins competitive MA state senate seat

Kathleen O'Connor Ives Kathleen O'Connor Ives, candidate for the First Essex seat in the Massachusetts state senate, won the democratic nomination for her district in a surprise victory in September. She beat out two c...

NJ Assembly candidate Marie Corfield turns YouTube fame into award-winning grassroots campaign

Marie Corfield, NJ Assembly candidate Marie Corfield is a lifelong New Jersey resident, school teacher, progressive public education advocate and single mother of two. In 2010, her passionate defense of public school f...

The NationBuilder team getting into the Halloween spirit on NationBuilder Live

On Wednesday, members of the NationBuilder team made cameo appearances on NationBuilder Live, our new regular livestreaming program. In case you missed it, here are clips of Will Hunting, members of the Community team as t...

Maine State House candidate: ‘Every legislator needs to be accessible on the web’

John Logan Jones Although 26-year-old John Logan Jones is running for elected office for the first time, he’s not a stranger to politics. Jones spent the last year working on U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign ...

New feature: Mailboxes

You know how when you get a nonprofit’s email newsletter, or a donation appeal from a campaign, that replying to the email blast never goes to anyone? Many organizations actually send the emails from an email address like ...

Social media and campaign databases making a difference for SF school board challengers

This year, the race for open positions on the San Francisco city school board is highly competitive, with eleven candidates, three of them incumbents, competing for four seats. And in a race that's sometimes seen as a jump...

NationBuilder in Nova Scotia: Building an entire election team from scratch

From the BC Young Liberals to the fledgling Alberta Party to the scrappy campaign of NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen, Canadian politicos and reformers are a significant chapter in NationBuilder's early history. Last...

Quickly add a microsite to your nation

With NationBuilder, it takes just minutes to set up a new microsite. These can be really useful for collecting petition signatures, featuring a candidate's signature issue, or calling out an opponent. With NationBuilder's ...

Candidate gives incumbent a run for his money without raising a dime

Thirty-two year old “No Money” Mike Connolly is not running your average political campaign. While working on healthcare reform during law school, he realized how badly money was influencing legislative outcomes. “Over th...

Entrepreneurs aim to create a center that can hold

In less than three months, tax increases from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and spending cuts resulting from the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 are predicted to send the country off a "fiscal cliff" and the ...

'Everyone should have the experience of running for office'

Dixie Kolditz One of my favorite things to do at NationBuilder is talk to first-time candidates about their campaigns. Everyone I talk to has a great story about why they're running and how they came to use our organiz...

From Steve Ngo in San Francisco to Steve Farley Arizona: Be your own media with NationBuilder

San Francisco College Board Trustee Steve Ngo and family. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where more than 80 candidates, campaigns, and political clubs use NationBuilder for their websites and supporter databases, Colle...

Using NationBuilder as a personal CRM

As of an hour ago, I've got 37,042 email and social media contacts in my personal NationBuilder database (maybe more like 35,000 total people - I've been a bit lazy with my deduping). And this isn't just a numbers game - m...

Take your nation to the next level with new 'Victory' theme

We've released a beautiful new website theme for campaign nations, free to all NationBuilder customers. If you don't yet have a NationBuilder account, sign up for a free 14-day trial here. The new "Victory" theme by Tecto...

Bikers and walkers unite! America Bikes fights for federal funding

As an alternative to driving, biking and walking have the potential to help solve many of the social ills that plague the country. If more people made the shift from driving to bicycling and walking, we would see vast impr...