Case Study: Texas Nurses Association achieves a single source of truth for legislative contacts with Airtable

Powering legislative advocacy using Airtable

The Texas Nurses Association, a statewide professional group representing 250,000 nurses, needed to modernize fragmented Excel contact lists used for legislative advocacy. Andrew Cates, the association’s General Counsel and Director of Governmental Affairs, faced the challenge of managing multiple antiquated lists and staying prepared for fast-moving meetings at the Texas State Capitol, so he turned to Airtable — using Airtable bases and the Political Contacts Management template to store legislator profiles, district maps, staff contacts, and notes in one place.

Airtable centralized and visualized legislator data, linked related records (committees, chiefs of staff), and made information easily shareable and mobile-accessible, eliminating “nine different contact lists” and improving team collaboration. As a result, the Texas Nurses Association gained faster, OS-agnostic workflows for advocacy prep, streamlined book inventory and shipping tracking, and a simple way to collect member feedback — tangible efficiencies that helped support the association’s legislative and outreach efforts using Airtable.

Texas Nurses Association

Andrew Cates

General Counsel and Director