NGO Education Survey

Strategic Planning

Theoretical background and skills needed to apply strategic plannng processes to projects, programs, entire organizations or communities.

3117 - Non-Profit Leadership, Strategy & Change

This 12-week course will teach you how to engage, inspire and influence staff, volunteer boards and key stakeholders to achieve strategic results. You'll get an overview of the key trends that are influencing the Canadian non-profit sector and how to develop strategy and influence systems from within the organizational hierarchy. You'll identify your own leadership style and learn components of governance, strategic innovation and implementation planning.

3118 - Building a Successful Non-Profit Organization

You'll learn how to align organizational and human capital development systems and how to develop resource management plans to address the needs of your non-profit. Learn how to use brand management and marketing strategy to build compelling cases for support to secure and sustain resources to deliver on your organization's mission. Apply change leadership principles and identify, assess and manage operational risk to navigate system and organizational change.

3119 - Enhancing Non-Profit Impact

This 12-week course takes you through program planning, design, implementation and evaluation. You'll learn to align resources with strategy and develop collaborations, partnerships and mergers that create a collective impact. Learn the power of strategies built on advocacy, the core concepts of successful partnership governance and ways to mitigate potential risks and pitfalls. You'll use the right metrics to assess progress and organizational performance.

Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy

Community Development in Health

The nature of "community"; theory and practice in community development; models of CD practice; ethical stance; applications to health and health promotion; CD strategies.

Community Development: Innovative Models

areas as housing, childcare, healthcare including mental health services, social service provision, and education, as well as models of community economic development.

Community Development: Theory and Practice

This graduate seminar provides an overview of the theory and practice of the field, including a historical review, an examination of contemporary issues and debates, and methodological considerations.

Community Education and Organizing

This course involves the study of a variety of perspectives in critical and community education as they relate to development and social change.

Community Social Work Practice

This course introduces a range of approaches to community social work practice, including community development, social action, community planning, feminist organizing,

Counselling and Researching in Context

Global Perspectives on Feminist Education, Community Development

The course provides an opportunity for students to study globally aware women?s educational practice in community development and community transformation.

Planning and Social Policy

The role of social planners in different levels of government; 2) The variety of target groups: income classes, demographic groups, the dis?advantaged, neighbourhoods, etc.; 3) Relevant social programs

Planning with the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

urban growth, employment (with emphasis on the informal sector), transportation, environmental issues, housing, and land markets.

Promoting Empowerment

This course will examine concepts and processes of marginalization and empowerment among populations whose issues are poorly addressed in conventional social service delivery.

Research Essay/Case Study

Rural Planning

The examination of policy and planning issues which arise from the growing space, resource and amenity demands on rural lands.

Social Housing and Homelessness

Issues of North and South

SWK 4425H Leadership Skills in Social Service Organizations

This course focuses on the skills needed by senior managers and administrations to take effective leadership within the organization and outside the organization. It is designed to develop leaders with vision, values and strong skills in stakeholder relations.

SWK 4426H Financial Management of Social Service Organizations

This course is designed to ensure that students acquire comprehensive skills in financial management and can apply those skills to ensure the financial health of their agency. Topics will include: management accounting; budgeting and forecasting; funding contracts; risk management; grantsmanship; fundraising.

SWK 4427H Human Resource Management in Social Service Organizations

This course will cover key areas in human resource management such as: comparison of unionized and non-unionized environments; hiring: writing job descriptions, attracting diverse candidates, best practices for candidate selection; orientation, training and development; performance management; termination; volunteer recruitment and management.

SWK 4642H Special Topics in SSA: Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, and Social Work Practice

This course, taught in a seminar format, introduces students to the concepts of social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and social enterprise as applied to the social services and the mission of creating change at service user, programmatic, organizational, and community levels of practice.

SWK 4654H Social Work Practice with Organizations & Communities

This course provides foundation content on social work methods in working with organizations and communities.