What's new at NationBuilder

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...

Education organizations get organized with NationBuilder

Education is a local issue that hits close to home. When schools are struggling, families and communities are direclty impacted. Many education organizations grow organically out of the efforts of parents and communities t...

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 o...

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...