Case Study: Connecticut Catholic Conference achieves 25% list growth and 3,877 petition signatures in 3 months with NationBuilder

CT Catholic leverages petitions to engage parish members across the state

The Connecticut Catholic Conference, which represents the three Catholic dioceses in Connecticut, needed to scale grassroots advocacy with a small, four-person staff and had been operating with fragmented lists and no centralized people-management tools. After evaluating options they selected NationBuilder (with its uJoin integration) to centralize their data, target communications using tags, and streamline petitions, events, and fundraising.

Using NationBuilder, CT Catholic consolidated all contacts, built action pages and a “CT Coalition Against Assisted Suicide” petition, and deployed newsletters and event/fundraising pages to engage parishes. Within three months they collected 3,877 petition signatures, grew their list by 25% (reaching 10,466 supporters), contributed to the denial of the proposed assisted‑suicide legislation, and are now expanding NationBuilder features like automated workflows and recruiter campaigns to scale further.

Connecticut Catholic Conference

David Reynolds

Connecticut Catholic Conference