Resources
At Quantum Jump, we do A LOT of reading and consult a lot of sources. Here are some of our favorite places to go for a fresh prespective, new ideas, creative thinking, tips and inspiration.
Quantum Jump Whitepapers: FREE to download:
- Scarcity - A Cultural Pathology: How the Words You Use Impact Your Bottom Line
- Fundraisers: Are You On The Right Track?
- The Law of Enrollment Meets the Ask
Sites We Visit:
- A Goodman Online: Good ideas for good causes
- Global Sufficiency Network
- Wealth for the Common Good
- Seven Stones Leadership
- The Gilbert Center: Good ideas, good communication, good work
- Management Assistance Group: Make Real Change
- Building Movement Project: Inspiring Activism in the Nonprofit Community
- Common Security Clubs: Coming Together to Prepare for Economic Change
- Community of Practice
- Bolder Giving In Extraordinary Times
Videos We Watch:
- The Shift: A Movie Being Made By a Movement
- The Century of the Self
- Ted: Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight
- Four Years. Go.
- NIKE Soccer: Write the Future
- Sam Daley-Harris - Poverty, Purpose, Pitfalls, and Redemption
Books We Read:
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
By Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander - The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
By Lynne Twist - The Three Laws of Perfomance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
- Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Recreating the Commons
By Peter Barnes - Robin Hood Was Right: A Guide to GIving Your Money for Social Change
By Chuck Collins, Pam Rogers and Joan Garner - Raising More Money: A Step-by-Steo Guide to Building Lifelong Donors
By Terry Axelrod - 25 Metaphors Nonprofits Can USe to Get Their Messages Across - and the Decrepit Dozen to Avoid
Magazines (print and online) We Keep Close at Hand:
- Ode: For Intelligent Optimists
- Yes Magazine. Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions
- Positive Psychology News Daily
Non-Profit E-zines We Peruse:
- Blue Avocado: practical, provocative and fun food-for-thought for nonprofits
- Contributions Magazine: "how-to" source for nonprofit professionals
- Grass Roots Institute for Fundraising Training
- The Nonprofit Times: The Leading Business Publication for Nonprofit Management
- Nonprofit Quarterly
- onPhilanthropy: News, Jobs and Resources for the Nonprofit Sector
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy: The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World
- Network for Good
- idealware: Candid reviews and information about nonprofit software
Resources for Fundraising Basics:
- Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
- Foundation Center: Online training courses
- Securing Your Organization's Future: A Complete Guide to Fundraising Strategies by Michael Seltzer
- Fundraising for Social Change by Kim Klein
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