Build your hive with
HIVE NATION



Build your hive with
Beekeeper Group's Hive Nation offers creative advocacy websites on a budget
Our Hive Nation clients include:
Our award-winning work has been recognized by:
email:
hivenation@beekeepergroup.com
telephone: 202-540-8787
address: 1101 14th St. NW Suite 200 Washington DC 20005
Basic | Expanded | Tailored | |
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Limited, so you can get something live—fast | Uniquely branded without reinventing the wheel | Custom designed to make your campaign stand out | |
Launch Timeline (Business Days)
The number of business days to complete the website from final client content delivery to launch ready website. Assumes finalized content provided from client before commencing website build and ongoing client approvals within 24–48 hours. |
10 Business Days | 20 Business Days | 40* Business Days |
Website Platform | NationBuilder | NationBuilder | NationBuilder |
Website Pricing (One Time Fee) | $3,995 | $8,995 | $13,995 |
Ongoing Support and Strategic Services (3 Month Minimum)
Beekeeper Group will help keep your community on the path to success. Clients can select any Beekeeper Group services starting at as little as 5 hours per month (@ $180 p/h). Services include website content edits and updates, general design services, marketing and recruitment, media relations, copywriting, advertising placement, social media management, strategic messaging, and/ or stakeholder engagement. View our full list of offerings here: https://www.beekeepergroup.com/what-we-do/ |
Starting at $900 per month | Starting at $900 per month | Starting at $900 per month |
Custom Design |
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Create a Custom NationBuilder Website Theme
NationBuilder’s robust theming system allows changes to official themes or to create custom themes using HTML or CSS. This allows clients to customize any element of their website and have access to all the objects and variables that make NationBuilder so powerful. |
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Includes (1) Custom Designed Homepage
Beekeeper Group will design and develop one custom designed homepage within the parameters of the NationBuilder platform. |
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Includes (1) Custom Designed General Internal Page
Beekeeper Group will design and develop one custom internal page template using NationBuilder’s Basic Pages API. This may be used across the website, as many times as needed. |
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Includes (1) Custom Designed Splash Page OR Sign-Up Page
Beekeeper Group will design and develop one custom Splash Page or Sign-up page emphasizing a client selected action. |
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Ability to Add Additional Custom Designed Pages
Client can select additional pages to be custom designed based on existing Nationbuilder functionality. Additional charges apply. |
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Content, Design, and CSS Support |
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Choose From Multiple NationBuilder Website Themes
Nationbuilder has a range of publicly available website themes that clients may select. All themes are responsive, meaning they automatically resize to fit the format of a visitors device, from desktops to tablets to smartphones. |
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Content Entry
Beekeeper Group to enter content based on finalized content provided from client in advance. |
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Copywriting & Copyediting
Beekeeper Group can provide copywriting and copyediting services to assist with client content including content recommendations, producing original copy, and editing existing client copy. Additional charges may apply if copywriting and copyediting services exceeds the included hours. |
Up to 5 Hrs | Up to 10 Hrs | |
Design Support & CSS Updates
Beekeeper Group can provide design support to incorporate client’s selected color scheme onto existing NationBuilder templates, edit client provided images and logos, or to edit NationBuilder template design elements including web buttons and banners. Additional charges may apply if the required design support exceeds the included hours. |
Up to 10 Hrs | Up to 15 Hrs | |
Image Search Assistance
Beekeeper Group can provide image recommendations from our library of stock photography and illustrations for use on slides, homepage images, featured content on internal pages, and blog posts, etc. Additional charges may apply for licenced stock image purchases. |
Up to 3 Hrs | Up to 5 Hrs | Up to 7 Hrs |
Website and Community Features |
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Responsive Design
Mobile and tablet friendly design. |
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Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Database
CRM software allows an organization to manage and organize its constituent data to help build stronger relationships and encourage improved interactions. |
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Membership Tools
NationBuilder offers a range of membership tools including creating multiple membership types, adding membership status to a contact profile, automated membership renewal, and granting membership or status for taking action on the website. Membership data can also easily be exported by membership type. |
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Reporting and Analytics
Through NationBuilder’s third party integrations, organizations may track NationBuilder website conversions as goals in Google Analytics and other platforms. |
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Constituent Mapping
Allows clients to visually display a representation of their constituents by overlaying their location on a map. |
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Ability to Add Third Party Data
Voter files and other behavioral, demographic, and consumer data may be imported to grow your Hive Nation. |
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Event Management Tools
NationBuilder allows you to easily create events and sync them across platforms due to their support of a wide variety of third party integrations. |
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Leaderboards and Supporter Rewards
A leaderboard is a public or private ranking of the supporters who have taken action towards achieving your nation’s goals. Use leaderboards to identify and empower leaders in your community. Find (and reward!) your top recruiters and contributors. Display leaderboards on your website and acknowledge the supporters who are making the most valuable contributions to your organization. |
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Petition Page(s)
A petition is a great way to galvanize your supporters and encourage them to invite other people to join your cause. |
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Volunteer Sign-Up
People can volunteer to help your organization through a Volunteer sign-up page, which may be set-up either as a page that asks people generally whether they would like to volunteer or as a page that encourages people to sign up for a particular role. |
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Fundraising Tools
Not only can you keep track of pledges and manage donations, NationBuilder’s fundraising tools allows you to build relationships with donors through appointed fundraisers within your Hive Nation. |
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Social Media Integration with Social Matching
From within your nation you can post directly to Twitter and Facebook, prompt your supporters to share your website content, track people who have liked your content, and automatically link supporters’ social media accounts to their profile in your nation. |
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Email Platform with A/B Testing, Scheduling, and List Segmentation
Create, segment, test, preview, and schedule your email blasts all within NationBuilder’s platform. |
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Standard Email Template
You may choose from a selection of publicly available NationBuilder website templates themes. |
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Unlimited Admin Users
Via control panel access, website administrators are able to see the people database, create web pages, send mass communication, or deal with a nation's finances. |
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Optional Add-ons |
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SSL Certificate
*Available Only for NationBuilder Enterprise Level Clients. |
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Email Template
Beekeeper Group’s design and development teams can customize a publicly available NationBuilder email template to suit your unique needs. Custom email templates are also available for an additional charge. |
$1,800 each | $1,800 each | $1,800 each |
Donation Processing
Client to establish their own merchant account supported by NationBuilder. |
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Additional Custom Designed Website Page
Beekeeper Group’s design and development team can build additional internal, splash, landing, action, donation, and sign-up pages upon request. |
$1,800 each | ||
Additional Beekeeper Group Services (for clients under contract only)
- Content Creation |
$180 per hour | $180 per hour | $180 per hour |
Add a “Legislative Action Center”
Clients can select an action center tool that integrates with the NationBuilder platform or Beekeeper Group can embed an action center tool from a third party platform. Requires client to separately contract with third party Action Center tool |
$500 | $500 |
Beekeeper can also develop comprehensive custom plans, incorporating all or more of the above elements. Please contact us for pricing options.
Hive Nation is more budget-friendly because we are leveraging the NationBuilder CMS and its existing templates and toolsets. This allows us to keep costs down while still delivering a unique, robust advocacy website. What you give up in customization, you gain in cost savings. However, Hive Nation is not intended for everyone, and if you have unique requirements, we can build out a custom solution for you.
Hive Nation is built on the NationBuilder CMS because NationBuilder was specifically created for advocacy campaigns and community outreach efforts. Its robust suite of tools empower clients to build communities and drive them to action. For a reasonable monthly fee (that scales with the size of your community) you can access features that would normally only be available to a custom website 10x this cost.
Beekeeper Group can develop custom websites on a range of platforms outside of this Hive Nation offering. Please contact us to talk through your needs and assess what platform may be the right fit for your organization's goals.
We are always happy to help your Hive thrive! Please contact us to talk through how this would change the process.
A lot of tools already integrate with NationBuilder, making the transition seamless. In the event where there is not an existing integration, we can embed the tool in the website or provide the tool with the website design comps so they can equip us to link to provider pages.
Hive Nation is built on the NationBuilder platform, so if you are looking for a website that can be more easily transferred across platforms then please contact us for a custom solution. This process is generally made easier by continued client ownership of design files and content, which Beekeeper Group can provide at any time.
Additional work may be covered by an ongoing support package with Beekeeper Group or may be subject to additional charges for more substantive work. Depending on how extensive these additions are, it may be more cost-effective to build a new iteration of your website on the existing domain. Please see our different packages for pricing options.
Hive Nation is a deliberately limited website solution where the build process has been streamlined to keep costs down and ensure that timelines are met. By understanding the breadth of content we are working with, we can quickly come up with a plan of action that would only require minimal changes throughout the process. If you need help with content development and organization, these services are available at additional cost.
Our Hive Nation timelines are built to accommodate 24-48 hour client approval turnaround for edits across the process. Clients need to give their approval at each stage of the process in order for our team to proceed with their website build. Should you need additional rounds of edits, or more time for edits, we can extend our timelines (additional charges may apply).
Any post launch edits, updates, and additions may be covered by the client’s ongoing support package with Beekeeper Group or may be subject to additional charges for more substantive work.
Your ongoing support package with Beekeeper Group (minimum of 5 hours per month) can be put towards any Beekeeper Group services. Need design support or strategic messaging? Beekeeper has you covered. View our full list of offerings here: https://www.beekeepergroup.com/what-we-do/