Nonprofit Management-retired

The Nonprofit Leadership course is a seamless study of the key leadership competencies and challenges faced in this professional sector divided between three core themes and learning outcomes.

Theme One: Leadership Paradigms and Capacities

• Understand current leadership frameworks, compare and contrast their impacts.
• Recognize key capacities related to various leadership approaches and consider their implications in practice.
• Reflect on and articulate your personal leadership philosophy and evaluate its strengths and limitations.
• Identify goals to further develop your capabilities to lead in alignment with your core values.

Theme Two: Governance as Leadership

• Understand generally accepted roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards.
• Recognize emerging concepts of governance and reflect on how these philosophies align with and compare to traditional governance approaches.
• Reflect on how recruiting, orienting and retaining board members might be impacted by these re-visioned approaches to governance.
• Integrate the learnings from themes one and two.

Theme Three: Strategic Engagement and Adaptation

• Grasp the role of strategy in leadership.
• Recognize essential elements to engage strategically and ways these elements are adapting and evolving.
• Articulate a variety of skills and tools that may be used for developing strategic planning/scenario planning processes within your nonprofit organization.
• Integrate the learnings from each of the three themes considered in this course.

The performance measurement program area will introduce nonprofit professionals to current concepts in measurement systems and methods designed to improve the performance of a nonprofit organization.

Ethical dilemmas are inherent in managing a nonprofit organization. Explore how personal values and the authority of one’s position impacts ethical decision making. Gain insight into current ethics issues and the systemic challenges of managing ethically in any organization.

• Discuss common ethical dilemmas within nonprofit organizations.
• Identify how personal values and position authority impacts ethical decision making.
• Demonstrate the ability to cultivate a culture of accountability and transparency.
• Discuss conflict of interest policies and procedures for staff, volunteers and board members

Learn the unique practical and lawful approaches to develop human resource policies for Nonprofit organizations.

Learn strategies to efficiently manage the financial resources of a nonprofit organization. 

This course offers an overview of the history of philanthropy, its changing environment, and the current state of fund development. New perspectives and approaches to fund development will be explored in light of current events. We will examine the various sources of funding, ways to determine which sources best align with organizational mission, and ways to meaningfully connect with specific donors. Students will distinguish and weigh the elements required to develop a balanced fund development plan. The value of storytelling in the fund development process will be probed and a connection drawn between compelling storytelling and developing organizational impact statements. We will examine racism in philanthropy and fund development and validate the imperative to practice diversity, equity, and inclusion in this field.