What's new at NationBuilder

November 23, 2019

A year ago today, my friend Jim Gilliam drew his last breath. It was a labored breath, through second-hand lungs that had extended his life for over a decade. He almost didn’t get them. So when he did, the only thing that ...

Key strategies to accelerate your #GivingTuesday success

It’s about that time of year — #GivingTuesday is quickly approaching, so we want to make sure you have everything you need to raise money and meet your goals. We know there are a ton of different approaches to end-of-year ...

The first General Election post-GDPR: Key tips on using NationBuilder privacy tools

This December’s General Election will be the first in the UK since the much discussed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came to fruition in May 2018, giving individuals greater control over their personal data held...

Diary of a candidate Vol.5: “Let’s raise some funds!”

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

Five reasons why leaders use the NationBuilder theme marketplace

A bold website design is an integral ingredient for leaders to be successful in their digital campaign. It’s the vehicle for effectively telling a story, capturing the interest of its supporters and broadcasting it to as m...

Take a look at the NationBuilder product roadmap

This week, we launched a better way for you to stay up to date on NationBuilder’s product roadmap. The NationBuilder product portal allows you to see what engineering work is in consideration, what has been planned, and wh...

Gear up to GOTV and give your campaign the edge

Election Day is fast approaching in Canada, and many other countries across the world. During the countdown, if you haven't finalized your GOTV strategy, or are still looking for something to increase voter turnout — thes...

Control Panel Redesign: Building the future of our software

After months and months of ongoing work on the control panel redesign, the limited beta officially launched on February 28th, 2019. At that point, select groups of customers gained access to the new control panel. Slowly, ...

Diary of a Candidate Vol. 4: Empowering your volunteers

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

Control Panel Redesign: Doing hard things, together

Not only was the recent control panel redesign the largest project NationBuilder had undertaken since its launch—it was different from any other project the engineers and designers of Pod Phoenix had previously worked on. ...

Make your message heard with SpeechKit

This is a guest post written by Dennis Sinden, Commercial Director of SpeechKit, the first all-in-one toolkit for automated audio news publishing. SpeechKit seamlessly creates, distributes, tracks and monetises hyperrealis...

Control Panel Redesign: The start of a new era for NationBuilder

In April of this year, NationBuilder released the most significant update to our software since our launch: a full redesign of the main control panel. With the update, we aimed to provide customers with an easier, more sea...

Supporting Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) on NationBuilder

The European Parliament’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), a piece of legislation regulating how European customers can make payments online, comes into effect on September 14, 2019. As a result of PSD2, many Euro...

Bootstrap 4 now available for custom themes

Starting today, all new website themes created with Bootstrap will automatically use Bootstrap 4. The Bootstrap framework has become the most popular way to create highly customized website themes in NationBuilder due to i...

The future of your NationBuilder control panel

The new NationBuilder control panel became available for everyone to try in April, and we've been blown away by the response we’ve received. Most of you reported an easy transition from NationBuilder Classic, and describe...