NationBuilder Features

Reports on various important data and metrics.

The ability to track each interaction with donors and maintain a record of their giving history.

Tools to automate a variety of processes such as email marketing and emailing receipts.

Profiles for each donor including contact information, interaction history, and giving history.

Allows users to customize their home page to display the information relevant to their role and tasks.

Stores donor profiles that track all relevant information, including contact info, solicitor, giving history, and specialized attributes.

Reports on any designated segmentation of donor information and/or gift history, and analyzes year over year trends.

Provides standard templates for letters and emails and/or allows users to create their own.

Creates custom fields to track information about donors or gifts that is specific to an organization.

Allows administrators to define role-based permissions for local organizers and members

Offers features for custom branding or white labeling

Provides dashboards for visualizing community data and analytics

Integrates with sales and marketing software

Integrates with nonprofit CRM tools to maintain accurate volunteer information and facilitate volunteer-to-donor pipelines.

Tracks ongoing volunteer program data, such as total volunteers, hours served, and volunteer churn; manages volunteer data in customizable dashboards; generates standard and custom reports for volunteer program analytics.

The ability to plan and execute fundraising campaigns based around specific goals.

The ability to accept donations online via a website, social media, or mobile device.

Tools to plan fundraising events, including ticketing, registration, and attendance tracking.

The ability to set up recurring donations of a specific amount at a chosen interval.

The ability to create social media fundraising pages that are shareable and leverage social networks.

The ability to use mobile devices to collect in-person donations at an event or kiosk.

Tools to create, customize, and send out mass marketing emails to specific donor groups.

Tools to create paper flyers and other mailings to be sent via direct mail.

Tracks action steps and notes for each prospective donor in the donor pipeline.

Records gift pledges and updates remaining amount based on installments.

Allows electronic files to be uploaded and stored within donor profiles.

Generates acknowledgment letters for donations, and supports e-mail and letter mailing communication with donors.

Stores event registration and ticketing information collected through online forms or manual data entry.

Downloads gift information from integrated fundraising tools into donor profiles.

Designates restricted and unrestricted revenue and either integrates with accounting software or generates accounting reports for reconciliation.

Creates unique profiles for constituents--such as donors, volunteers, or members--to store relevant information, and categorize individuals with customizable attributes.

Allows constituents to create an online account to engage with the organization, such as updating contact information, managing memberships, or signing up for marketing and event reminders.

Enables gift acknowledgment and letter and electronic communications with constituents.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing, and auto-responders.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Optimizes the process for organizations to develop and deploy multiple-channel marketing campaigns to target groups or individuals and track the effect of those campaigns, by customer segment, over time.

Analyzes effectiveness of an organization's various marketing activities

Automates activities and reminders for each of your prospects to help move them along the donor pipeline.

Simplifies data entry tasks by pulling relevant data from other sources and automatically updates existing records, or generates new records.

Establishes task assignments for individual staff members that alert as prerequisite tasks are completed.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Allows for standard reports as well as the ability to create customs reports.

Displays a customizable graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Allows users to schedule automated reports to be pulled at a specified day and time.

Provides fund accounting support to track payments receivable and pending.

Supports online donation and event registration processing and imports fundraising data into records.

Manages grant-related activities such as proposal and reporting deadlines, document storage, and grant award expenditure.

Enables local organizers to administer and support their dedicated groups or chapters

Provides a branded community portal where users can learn about events

Allows local organizers to send communications to community members

Offers analytics on community membership and engagement

Allows local organizers to create events

Offers features for viewing and managing event attendee lists

Enables local organizers to promote events, such as through email or social media marketing

Tracks and reports on event attendance and engagement

Sends tailored, automated email communications to all segmented subscribers.

Sends reminders, robotexts, and other campaign engagement materials to be send via text message.

Track metrics like opens, clickthroughs, bounces, and unsubscribes.

Enables targeted outreach to supporters via email, text, and social media.

Prompts supporters to share important action pages to social media for wider reach.

Facilitates direct contact between advocates and legislators to voice opinions.

Offers website design tools and allows custom web pages to be built.

Manages active volunteer shifts, assigns task workflow, and sets user permissions.

Processes one-time and recurring supporter donations and tracks donor information.

Creates event registration pages that can collect ticket sales and RSVPs.

Utilizes pre-downloaded map data to plan canvasser walk paths and identify target voter areas.

Allows canvassers to quickly update voter information and data via mobile devices.

Generates call lists for phonebankers and allows voter information to be updated in the database.

Offers basic database functionality to track supporter and volunteer information.

Generates petitions, events, donation, and sign-up pages that automatically sync with your database.

Collects and processes one-time or recurring donations to support campaign efforts.

Assists with voter registration and finding polling locations.

Manages actions and permissions for volunteers, and enables them to create personalized outreach links to share with networks.

Recognizes supporter efforts through visual leaderboards and badges.

Provides access to a comprehensive database of elected officials and legislators.

Tracks meetings and relationships for all stakeholders.

Integrates with common CRM databases.

Offers real-time analytics to track supporter engagement and report on ROI, supporter discovery, and action benchmarks.

Creates and edits active volunteer opportunities to receive volunteer sign-ups.

Tracks contact, demographic, and affinity information for volunteers, as well as total service hours.

Assists with assigning volunteer shifts and manages a master schedule.

Allows volunteers to create and manage personal profiles to maintain current information and volunteer interests.

Incentivizes engagement with reward badges or leadership boards based on number of volunteer hours served.

Allows email or text messages to be sent directly to specified volunteers, for the purpose of shift reminders or upcoming opportunities.

Supports embedded or linked donation pages to encourage volunteer donations.

Offers a mobile app version for volunteers to receive relevant information and manage their volunteer history.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases