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What if the change your community needs... starts with you? 💛 On March 31st, we're celebrating #NationalRunForOfficeDay alongside Run For Something Civics with a virtual celebration of civic leadership! Save your seat to hear firsthand from elected officials, special guests, and real talk about how community members like YOU can run for office and win. (registration in comments) Know someone who should run for office? Tag them below so they can mark their calendars! #RunForOfficeDay #LeadLocal #FutureLeaders #LocalLeadership

Across 8.2M petitions in 2025, local issues consistently outperformed national and global ones by 2x. It makes sense when you think about it. People sign petitions when they feel like the outcome is real and close to home. If your petition isn't getting traction, the issue might not be your cause, it might be how far away the decision feels. We want to hear from experienced campaigners — does local always win, or have you found ways to make a bigger cause feel urgent? Ps. We also looked into $235M in donations and 2.3B messages in 2025 to find what's working and what's quietly costing organizations money and engagement (see more of the trends linked in the comments.)

APAC fundraisers, this one's for you! Our own Madeleine Cazes is joining Call To Action's Jack Biss on April 1st to share five EOFY digital fundraising tactics you can put to work immediately. Get it on your calendars today: https://bit.ly/4cZTVzY

We're live at Public Affairs Council's Advocacy Conference in Phoenix, AZ! 🌵 Sarah McCord and Irene Pang Lee from the NationBuilder team are here and excited to talk all things grassroots advocacy, reaching the right people with the right message, and making civic engagement more accessible. If you're at the conference, come find our booth for a chat. We'd love to connect with you!

The best events make every supporter feel like they have everything they need to show up, and now, that's easier than ever to deliver. 🗓️ We just launched automatic event reminders! Set it once, and let NationBuilder handle the rest. One-click "Add to Calendar." Fewer no-shows. Less manual follow-up. More time for your people. Try it out in your nation today! (link in comments for more info) #NationBuilder #CommunityOrganizing #EventPlanning #GrassrootsOrganizing

Huge congratulations to Rhys Forsyth, Joachim Garrick and all the Code Nation team for a stellar sweep at the Campaigns & Elections Reed Awards! 🏆 It’s a privilege to work closely with an agency that consistently pushes the boundaries of digital advocacy. Their latest wins, spanning Best Microsite to Best International Digital Campaign, do a great job of showcasing their "action-first" approach to NationBuilder website design. Great to see the well deserved international recognition! 👏

In 2020, a group of over 100 women started a WhatsApp group. Today, they're running for office in all 32 states of Mexico. Aúna Mexico began as a collective of organizers, academics, technologists, activists united by a single belief: That Mexico's political parity laws could be a turning point, not just in representation, but in transformative progressive power. From group chat to national organization, they vet candidates not simply because they are women-but because they carry a vision for justice, equality, and inclusive leadership with a particular focus on indigenous, Afro-descendant, and LGBTQ+ women who have historically been excluded from formal political life. As co-founder Monica Tapia A. puts it: Aúna is "A tangible sign that the union of diverse and committed women can generate profound and significant changes in our society." Today they have seen 27 winning candidates, 500+ applicants to their most recent cohort, and a historic 100+ women at their annual gathering. And they're just getting started. They have a Latin American consortium now in development, bringing together allied organizations in Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina. Learn more about Aúna’s work in Mexican politics in the full story (linked in the comments). #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomenInPolitics #FeministLeadership #BuildTheFuture

Meet Guy Citron: A vocal advocate fighting overdevelopment and discrimination at town meetings. Meet Tyler Powell: A cybersecurity expert who went from homelessness to helping protect New Jersey’s electrical grid and water systems. Together they closed a 21-point gap in a district built against them. They had no institutional backing, a limited budget, and an almost entirely volunteer operation. Turns out presence, authenticity, and the right infrastructure to organize it was the most powerful strategy they had. While they didn't flip the district this cycle, they proved it's flippable. And they're already filed for 2027. (Read their full story linked in the comments.) #NationBuilder #Gerrymandering #CivicEngagement #PublicService #KnowYourRep #LD23 #GrassrootsOrganizing #CampaignStrategy #PoliticalTech