What's new at NationBuilder

Creating young leaders - The Roadtrip to End Poverty hits the road on NationBuilder

Right now, over a billion people around the world are living in extreme poverty. According to UNICEF, more than 30 percent of children in developing countries live on less than $1 US dollar per day. Every 3.6 seconds someo...

NationBuilder appearances during Social Media Week

As part of Social Media Week starting Monday, NationBuilder social media experts will be speaking at several events in Los Angeles throughout the week. In a seminar for nonprofits on Monday, NationBuilder organizer Julie...

Slate’s Sasha Issenberg launches new book “The Victory Lab” on NationBuilder

What influences a person to vote one way or the other? One of the hot topics of this year’s election is the role that “big data” is playing in helping to answer this question. The advantage of having access to so much ...

Taking global action to end sexual violence in conflict

Rape and violence against women is just as much a part of conflict around the world as guns and bombs - and a new international campaign wants to illuminate that fact and change it. Last year, thirty-seven armed conflicts ...

It's a candidate background check - on yourself: NationBuilder plus Candidate Check

When you get hired for a job, it's standard practice for your new employer to do a background check. Whether it’s calling references, previous employers, or running a credit check - this is an established part of the hirin...

UTF-8 format: The secret to flawless imports in NationBuilder

Ever gotten one of those pesky "[utf8 error]" messages when doing an import into NationBuilder? How about "There was a character encoding error. Make sure your file is saved in UTF-8 format"? Both of those messages m...

An animal rescue hero: Eldad Hagar of Hope for Paws

Eldad Hager of Hope for Paws Late one night in July, Eldad Hagar got a call about a dog named Gaia that had been abandoned on the side of the road in the California Central Valley. While barely surviving in the middle ...

Dante Fried Chicken Nation

Liv dishes out Guinness blueberry brisket and peach apricot crack fried chicken tacos in Silver Lake. Dante Fried Chicken is one of NationBuilder's newest small business customers. They were dishing up chicken and brisk...

Don't let anything fall through cracks: Introducing followups and priority levels

For any small business, nonprofit, or political campaign, the key to success is keeping track of the contacts you've made and making sure you don't miss future opportunities to reach out to people. When managing supporters...

Turning petitions into action for labor, environment

Greenpeace India is using a multilingual petition site to fight clearcutting for coal mining. NationBuilder's petition feature is a powerful tool for generating interest in your cause and building your supporter databa...

NationBuilder text messaging + you on YouTube = #Winning

As viewer eyeballs continue to shift away from the television to tablets and mobile phones, the ability to reach an audience with video advertisements is diminishing. NationBuilder offers a solution to this problem by...

NationBuilder and the conventions

Joe Green I'll be at the RNC and DNC conventions this month and am looking forward to meeting our customers and folks who are interested in learning more about NationBuilder and our community organizing system. If you...

NationBuilder is psychologist's shortcut to marketing success

Paola Bailey, Psy.D. Doctors and psychologists go through more than a decade of schooling and clinical training before they can start practicing on their own. But one thing they don’t teach during all those years of ed...

Governor Jerry Brown visits NationBuilder

Governor Jerry Brown dropped by the NationBuilder offices in downtown Los Angeles today. He had a message for us as he walked around and greeted everyone - vote yes on Prop 30 in November. Here he is with CEO Jim Gilliam. ...

Ex-offenders, electronics, and doing well by doing good

Los Angeles is a complex and nuanced city. Despite the many cliched complaints about living here, it is precisely that gritty, imperfect and constantly evolving nature which draws so many creative and entrepreneurial peopl...