What's new at NationBuilder

Authorize.net recurring donations will now generate an email receipt

Posted by · June 06
TAGGED Product updates
Do you have recurring donations coming into your nation via Authorize.net? Good news - going forward all recurring donations will generate an email receipt to the donor! Receipts for past donations will not go out retroact... Continue reading

Philadelphia: Now Live on RunForOffice.org

Posted by · June 06
TAGGED Run for office
 (Best. Film. Ever.) Philadelphians, Pennsylvanians, Flyers, and Penguins: Now hear this! We now have every single one of Philadelphia’s 5,083 publicly elected positions address searchable and live on our RunForOffice.org ... Continue reading

Building an Engaged Email List

Posted by · June 03
TAGGED Win your election Strategy + 3 more
This is the second installment in a 5-part series on best email practices. Last week we gave a bird’s eye view of building a winning email program with two important concepts for growing an email list. This week we’ll buil... Continue reading

Get Out the Vote! Add the Voting Information Project widget to your NationBuilder site

Posted by · June 03
TAGGED Win your election
  You have put tons of hours into your campaign and primary day is around the corner. Now, the most important question your website needs to answer is “Where do I vote?” NationBuilder and the Voting Information Project (VI... Continue reading

Don't email blast the voter file

Posted by · June 02
TAGGED Win your election Strategy
You’re in a rush: your candidate doesn’t have an email list of supporters because it’s the first time they’ve run for office. To make matters worse, you desperately need money and an easy way to reach out to voters. If you... Continue reading

Creating a sitemap for website administrators

Posted by · June 01
TAGGED Design
Two weeks ago, Brian Tippy posted about using Liquid to create intuitive ways for site administrators to seamlessly move between the client-side website and back-end CMS platform for page editing. This is perfect for letti... Continue reading

Text message strategies - Building conversation trees

Posted by · June 01
TAGGED Strategy
It’s a great time to use texting with NationBuilder, especially as 350 texts are now included with the Organization plan or above. Relationships with your community don’t have to end once you have their email, as texting i... Continue reading

Updated Ecosystem logos and brand board

Posted by · June 01
TAGGED Design API
We recently updated the certified Ecosystem logos - Architect, Expert, Developer, Agency - with a fresh and standardized look. Being that our partners often use these logos on their own site, in blog posts, etc., we though... Continue reading

Updated Auto-districting for the United Kingdom

Posted by · May 27
TAGGED Europe Product updates + 1 more
Running a campaign in the United Kingdom? Great news - we've updated our shapefiles for the entire country this week to correspond with newly drawn district boundaries (Wards in particular), and have also included Scottish... Continue reading

Reporting and compliance come to NationBuilder with the new Aristotle 360 integration

Posted by · May 27
TAGGED API
Aristotle 360 is an integrated PAC and government relations web application. Aristotle 360 is a robust contact management platform that supports all PAC related activities such as fundraising, communications and Federal an... Continue reading

When time’s ticking: 3 tips on how to build a short-term campaign

Posted by · May 26
TAGGED Europe
Sometimes, you don’t have bags of time to run a campaign. Sometimes, a referendum is just around the corner and you only have 4 months to mobilise the whole country (much like is happening before the EU referendum in the U... Continue reading

Easily translate your site with Bablic

Posted by · May 25
TAGGED Europe API
This is a guest post written by Gabriele Manasse, founder of Bablic - a machine and human translation tool that can be inserted into your NationBuilder site(s) and translate your webpage with a single line of code.    In a... Continue reading

Culture by design: how we created our new jobs page

Posted by · May 25
TAGGED Design
Culture can be...well...difficult. It’s difficult to foster, evolve, and even explain. At a company like NationBuilder, culture is the oil of our engine. We need it to drive our mission forward - which makes it especially ... Continue reading

Get the best open rates using text messaging

Posted by · May 24
TAGGED Product updates Important updates
Text messages have an open rate of 98%, which is significantly higher than that of emails. Yet, text messaging is a communication channel that often gets overlooked. If you’re in charge of creating a stream of communicatio... Continue reading

Enhance your nation with demographic and voter interest data

Posted by · May 23
TAGGED API
Advocacy Data is a leader in enhancing voter files, offering a turn-key solution to build on your existing data. As a NationBuilder customer, you can take advantage of an exclusive offer to leverage the voter data already ... Continue reading