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Organizing
VAN
Organizing More Easily & Efficiently with New Turf Manager Updates
May 8, 2017
Our team is always listening to organizers and volunteers to discover how VAN can help field programs maximize their efforts. That’s why we’re excited to release improvements to Turf Manager which make navigating the page, printing region summaries, and cutting, sending and monitoring Turf with MiniVAN even easier and more efficient. Here's some changes we made that will help organizers navigate more easily through Turf Manager:
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VAN
New on VAN: Better, More Inclusive Data with Non-Binary Gender Options
April 24, 2017
NGP VAN is a progressive, mission-driven company that works every day to help Democrats and progressives change the world - whether they’re running for office or advocating for a cause. Taking our company’s values to heart, we believe the tools we build should reflect the values that matter to us and our clients - of diversity, inclusion, and social justice, to name a few.
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Innovation Platform
Online Ads
Innovation Platform Spotlight: DemocraticAds.com
September 26, 2016
Continuing to build upon our commitment to transforming campaign technology through our Innovation Platform, NGP VAN is excited to launch a new partnership with DSPolitical to bring its award-winning, self-serve voter targeted digital advertising platform DemocraticAds.com to the VAN.
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Direct Mail
Innovation Platform
Innovation Platform Spotlight: SpeakEasy Political
August 5, 2016
Digital innovation has touched almost every sector of the political world. Donating is easier online, organizers can go door to door with their iPhones, and social media outreach has changed the game. But older workhorse tools - like direct mail - have been slow to evolve. That changes this cycle.
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Organizing
Innovation Platform
Innovation Platform Spotlight: Empower Engine
August 3, 2016
NGP VAN’s Innovation Platform is making it easier for campaigns of all sizes to run fully-integrated, sophisticated multi-channel voter contact campaigns. This week, we’re highlighting one of our many progressive technology partners from the Innovation Platform Marketplace - Empower Engine. A web mapping application for Democrats and Progressives, Empower Engine was co-founded in 2013 by NGP VAN alumni Julie Goldberg and Noah Glusenkamp.
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Organizing
Design
Introducing Dashboard
July 13, 2016
VAN is the technology backbone of nearly every Democratic campaign and progressive organization in the country. Every day from now until November, thousands of organizers and volunteers will use VAN to manage key aspects of their work - but we know that it hasn’t always been easy for people to jump right into the work they need to do. That’s why we built Dashboard.
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Organizing
Design
Mobile Canvassing Gets Major Upgrade with Script Branching on MiniVAN
June 30, 2016
More than ever before, campaign volunteers are ditching clipboards and paper lists for canvassing apps like MiniVAN. Mobile canvassing is already completely transforming field programs, helping canvassers get out the vote more easily and efficiently. Now, we’re ready to take field organizing to the next level – by introducing Script Branching on MiniVAN.
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Organizing
Digital
Design
Cutting-Edge Digital Tools Aren’t Just for Fundraising - Introducing Field Automation on VAN
June 27, 2016
Traditionally, innovations in the digital political world have been focused primarily around online fundraising. Innovations like one-click donations, mobile responsive forms, welcome series emails, pre-filling form fields, and A/B testing have long been focused on improving conversion rates for contribution forms. That’s been great for digital fundraisers, but what about organizers? Today we’re excited to announce the launch of an entirely new suite of digital tools just for organizers: introducing Field Automation, Targeted Email, and Online Actions on VAN.
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Fundraising
NGP
New NGP + LinkedIn Integration: A Vital Tool for Fundraising & Donor Research
June 16, 2016
One key feature that we provide on NGP is automatic matching to individuals’ Facebook and Twitter profiles based on their email address. This week, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added another key social network to our social matching feature: LinkedIn.
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Organizing
Design
Introducing Sidebar Navigation in VAN
May 3, 2016
We’re constantly working to improve our products and make them easier for our customers to use. One thing we’ve continued to hear is that you want a better way to move around VAN. Everyone from volunteers to administrators want to complete their work faster and more easily. There’s so much you can do in VAN - from cutting turf, to phone banking, to managing contacts - and our users asked for a streamlined way to complete tasks, one that doesn’t rely on main menu. So, we’ve designed something that allows you to do just that: Sidebar navigation in VAN.
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