Our fully remote team was lucky enough to meet on the Victorian coast recently for our annual working retreat. We spent our days collaborating on projects, planning for the year ahead, eating beautiful meals together and surfing at the local beach. We left feeling fresh, happy, and fully rejuvenated to tackle all the exciting new projects we have in store for Code Nation and SupporterBase this year!

We're stoked to announce that we're finalists in FOUR categories for the 2023 Reed Awards! One of which was the award for Best Innovation In Advocacy, for our SupporterBase platform! 

You can check out the websites we delivered that also made the finals below:

• Best Grassroots/Action Centre: https://www.movebeyondcoal.com/
• Best International Website: https://www.openvld.be/
• Best Landing Page: https://www.protectourwinters.ca/game_on

We're super proud of our team and can’t wait for the final announcement!

Meet Nic, our awesome Full Stack Developer who was born with a passion for technology and black skinny jeans! He previously worked behind the scenes at Channel 7 on live news segments and weather graphics, and now thrives on building tools to help our incredible partners build their following! In his free time, you'll find Nic playing board games, hiking or programming.

Our friend Harry Burkitt over at Wilderness Australia knows that we're in it with you for the long haul! If you’re also in need of ongoing website support and maintenance, please get in touch to discuss options.

Our team of coding legends were wrapped to deliver this new site for Represent Women, using our ready-made website theme, Candidate, with a mix of creative designs and customisations. You can explore the full site here.

We recently partnered with NationBuilder to deliver a webinar on SupporterBase, our community organising tool that took Australia's 2022 federal election by storm. If you'd like to access the recording, just hit us up!

Go Gentle Australia has a vision of an Australia where we all are empowered to choose the end-of-life care that is right for us. We worked with them to launch a new website that's interactive, educational and clearly broadcasts their vision. This was delivered using one of our ready-made NationBuilder website themes.

This year we were delighted to partner with Protect Our Winters Canada, an organisation turning passionate outdoor people into effective climate advocates.

We worked closely with their team to deliver a new website on NationBuilder that leveraged our Candidate theme template, applying a series of customisations to ensure the design and functionality met their unique needs. 

We now have two campaign website templates available (Candidate and Campaña), which we developed as an alternative to the full custom website design and development process. These templates give you the option of still implementing your own branding, whilst saving on money and time. 

Head over to the Protect Our Winters Canada site to check it out for yourself.

The countdown is on to Better Futures Australia's Better Futures Forum, a 3-day virtual event driving nationwide climate action! Attendees will get the chance to interact with and be inspired by climate champions across all corners of society and the economy and plan how we can work together to create better futures for all. You can secure your ticket here.

If you’re unable to attend the event, you can still help out by signing this declaration as a representative of your organisation, to demonstrate that Australia is ready to take ambitious action on climate!

We are delighted that Better Futures were able to include this declaration on their site using FormJoy, the new subscription tool built by our team. FormJoy allows you to configure a broader range of survey questions all within a single page (including additional question types like multi-select), while also applying relevant tags and paths for people based on their responses. If you are on the lookout for improved survey solutions for your NationBuilder site and are interested in learning more, let us know.

Thanks to #StopAdani’s people-powered movement, the mining giant trying to build the biggest coal mine in Australia's history is now unable to find any investor willing to directly fund its climate-wrecking project. Dozens of major banks have ruled out funding Adani’s mine, including the 4 big Australian banks, and all the big Chinese banks (read more here).

We are so proud to have been able to support the #StopAdani movement by providing their organising team with SupporterBase, a powerful organising tool built by our team of digital experts. Here’s what Aimee Bull-McMahon, Digital Campaigner and Organiser for the #StopAdani movement, had to say about SupporterBase…

“SupporterBase has enabled us to empower a team of volunteers to support hundreds of local leaders to host their own campaign events, many for the very first time! This has massively scaled up our grassroots campaign to pressure some of the biggest investment companies in the world to stop funding Adani's coal, helping us deliver 100+ actions in just one week.

Volunteers with limited technical experience have found Supporter Base easy and intuitive to use. The team at CodeNation supported us the whole way — set-up was smooth, there's heaps of useful documentation at our fingertips, and they've worked with us to customise the platform to deliver on our unique organising goals.”

If you would like to learn more about how SupporterBase can help your movement, get in touch with us directly or head over to the SupporterBase website.