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On democracy and leadership

We are heartbroken over last Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol––and on democracy itself. This violent attack didn’t just disrupt the people’s business, or desecrate a sacred space, or again demonstrate the double sta...

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Quick takeaways from GivingTuesday fundraising

Now that GivingTuesday has come and gone, we thought we’d share some insights on how fundraising efforts across our community performed on the big day. While the most successful customers use NationBuilder to organize ever...

Planning through uncertainty: Looking ahead to 2021

2020 was a year of unprecedented challenges, but despite those challenges it was also a year of innovation, creativity, and growth in ways nonprofits might not have imagined. But now that 2021 is here, the question on eve...

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Announcing our new community jobs board and enhanced experts program

Over the past eleven years, NationBuilder’s community has been an essential part of our growth and evolution as we’ve worked toward our vision of a world where everyone can create what they are meant to create. That comm...

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Celebrating the everyday leaders in our lives

It's been an incredibly tough year. And helping us get through it are countless people—friends, family members, neighbors, loved ones, and total strangers—some who may see themselves as leaders, and many who don't. Leader...

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Giving thanks for GivingTuesday

I love GivingTuesday. It’s a day when we get to intentionally shine a light on thousands of beautiful people and organizations around the world, lifting up the work that lifts us all up. Today, we get to say thank you. To ...

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Poll workers are superheroes of democracy

The ability to cast a ballot is one of our democracy’s most fundamental pillars. And for those who choose to do so in-person, physical infrastructure is required—a place to assemble, people to shepherd us through the proce...

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How to build your GOTV infrastructure

An organised get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation is integral to the success of every campaign. It’s at this point in the campaign that you are going to channel all the support that has been built up over the course of the ca...

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5 Ways email automations can streamline your work

Earlier this year, we launched automations equipping you to build multi-step messaging campaigns so you can cut time spent on routine work and focus on building relationships. We’ve just leveled up automations by adding co...

Diary of a candidate Vol.9: “GOTV”

Read this in French 🇫🇷 We are Lison Laissus and Oliver Wells, NationBuilder Account Managers based in London. Having worked with many political parties and campaigns, we want to share what we’ve learned for people new to ...

How to run a political campaign fundraising program in 2020

While fundraising in the digital space has become increasingly important for political campaigns in recent years, the shift to nearly all-online campaigns as a result of the global pandemic has increased the importance of ...

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How to trigger path assignment or automation via our API

There’s a simple workaround to trigger path and path step assignment via our api. The magic works in creating a survey question for each path and a possible response (survey answer) for each path step you want to assign ...

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New Rapid theme for campaigners—now available on our Theme Marketplace

🇫🇷 read this in French Rapid is a NationBuilder theme kit designed by our certified partner Brand Response for quick deployment of custom landing pages tailored for user engagement and supporter activation.

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The future of voting is now: organizing in advance of November’s U.S. election

Last Wednesday at the Collision from Home conference, I had the opportunity to speak about the future of voting with Sabrina Siddiqui, National Politics Reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and Sheila Nix, the President of...

Diary of a candidate Vol.8: “Starting an ambassador program”

Read this in French 🇫🇷 We are Lison Laissus and Oliver Wells, NationBuilder Account Managers based in London. Having worked with many political parties and campaigns, we want to share what we’ve learned for people new to ...