What's new at NationBuilder

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...

Using NationBuilder to reclaim your customers and supporters

Facebook has become a very popular tool for businesses and nonprofits. It is largely considered one of the best ways to reach customers and donors via social media because information is delivered directly to people's news...

TurboVote makes voting as easy as ordering a DVD from Netflix

Voting in local and national elections is an important civic responsibility. But it can also be a huge hassle.During the last midterm election, I spent a frustrating couple of hours going to three different polling locatio...

Meer, Hampton speaking in Los Angeles and San Diego

NationBuilder's Southern California organizer Jason Meer and chief organizer Adriel Hampton are speaking on community engagement for politics and governance next week in Los Angeles and San Diego. Meer, an experienced dig...

A 30,000 foot view of your nation: using contact view

Status meetings are the bane of the field coordinator's existence.Every meeting to review how many contacts your organizers made in a day is a missed opportunity for them to build a relationship in the field. With NationBu...

St. Louis NationBuilders gear up for heated primary races

NationBuilder's cutting edge community organizing system is taking over St. Louis - a city traditionally better known for big businesses, sports, and the blues than for high-tech - as Missouri prepares for primary election...

Label it? GMO activists in California say “let’s vote”

I recently had the pleasure of spending the day with NationBuilder Pamm Larry, the voice and force behind the LabelGMOs campaign. About a year and a half ago, Pamm - who is a midwife, farmer, grandmother and mother of thre...

Power to the peas and carrots - Food Day launches on NationBuilder

From Honolulu, HI to Farmville, VA ("Let's put the farm back in Farmville"), Food Day is coming. The 50-state day of celebration and education around healthy eating and farming launched a new website today on NationBuil...