“Investing in good people, technology and expertise can help local candidates secure victory in a closely contested race."

“It was really scary. Just being in the hospital is scary, but she was there — she made me feel warm inside. She was compassionate, caring, and skilled. Her knowledge of her job truly made a difference.”

“Our NationBuilder nation was in so many ways the central hub of our digital strategy. It powered our ability to harness the momentum we built over the course of the campaign, across platforms and tools. Whether it was our use of Hustle, Slack or any of the tools we used, …

“We were able to beat all these big companies in the most scrappy way possible, and it was built on the back of just starting on NationBuilder.”

“He didn't speak in platitudes but rather in really outlined, thoughtful policy, and I thought he was hitting the nail on the head in terms of the problems he was identifying. I trusted his capacity to deliver the solutions he was outlining. That combination of things was very rare to …

“There's a very destructive mentality that’s like, if the software that the other [party] used was really great and worked, that we can't use it because they used it. Coming from Wall Street, coming from business, that's not how you operate at all—you have to be the opposite. If your …

“We had our [29th Council] in Berlin and for the first time there were so many cameras, so much written press that we’d never seen something like that before. From all over Europe, they came to Berlin to our council, which was amazing. Tilt! created this platform for people who …

"We have almost 600 local councillors now, that’s plus 75%, and we’re particularly proud that 51% are women, 20% are youngsters. Part of our success was that we brought a story that was really close to the people. Our main narrative was, ‘Change is Possible.’ We focused on local topics …

“We’re going to focus on our volunteer movement because we now have organized regional teams and the ambition to give our volunteers central roles in our campaign. By giving them access to NationBuilder tools like our website, communications, and people, our staffers, volunteers, and candidates can work together and there’s …

“After a lot of hard change in the beginning, it was cool to see people saying by the end of the campaign that we have best-in-class websites that really stand out in comparison with other parties. I still think we have one of the best, if not the best, national …

“Ideally, the UCLA example will be successful and we can have every other campus do the same thing. That would mean that every year as new students are coming in, we’ve got a pretty easy way of getting UCAN in front a good number of them. It could be a …

“It’s very easy to just show up at a shoreline and clean up. We like to think of ourselves as a stepping stone for broader engagement on a whole range of environmental issues, and on this issue first. We always say, ‘Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.’ The …

“What’s really helpful is that NationBuilder offers a multitude of ways to donate. The donation journey is quite easy with the sliding donation pages. We have a lot of supporters saying that it’s a really nice, smooth process, so that helps keep people coming back. We’ve got a high number …

“We were very proud of that accomplishment because it [was] tangible, and it was clear that we were using our online organizing skills to move that forward. We built on that momentum and, since then, have leveraged several neighborhood-specific campaigns. Because our work is so location-based, [if we’re working on] …

“Captains all had to be given designed permission sets that made sense for them, and then they had to be trained to filter and find people who were interested based on their area. In most teams, one or two captains would emerge that were really good at it and they …