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NOP PS5100 Nonprofit Development, Fundraising, and Financial Sustainability

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the design, implementation and management of the components of a philanthropic program and its relationship to the financial sustainability of the nonprofit organization. It introduces the philosophical, ethical and historical underpinnings of fundraising practice, also providing the nomenclature, characteristics, and methods of gift generation and their sources, and the management and stewardship of those sources. Additionally, it examines the relationship of the organization’s mission to its strategic vision and the planning, management and impact of fundraising to the organization’s advancement and sustainability.

NOPM PS5280 The Nonprofit Sector: Scope and Impact

This course presents the role that the nonprofit sector plays in civil society for addressing human and societal needs and for advancing the public good. The distinctions, similarities and relationship of the nonprofit, government and private sectors will be explored. Additionally, the meaning and place of ethics in the sector and its application for charity, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations along with the provision for beneficiaries, clients and nonprofit support will be considered. Finally, the course will examine the parameters and nature of the United States’ nonprofit sector and its place within the global civil society sector.

NOPM PS5320 Nonprofit Financial Management

NOPM PS5300 Social Impact and Performance Measurement

Nonprofit organizations compete for scarce philanthropic and government funding and are expected to account for how these resources are utilized for the greater good. However, understanding how well nonprofit programs and services produce their desired outcomes can be a challenge. This course is designed to provide a broad – yet rigorous – overview of the knowledge and tools available to evaluate the effects of nonprofit and social impact programs and policies.

NOPM PS5390  Nonprofit Management Capstone Project

Capstone projects afford a group of students the opportunity to undertake complex, real-world, client-based projects for nonprofit organizations, supervised by a Nonprofit Management program faculty member. Through the semester-long capstone project, students will experience the process of organizational assimilation and integration as they tackle a discrete management project of long or short-term benefit to the client organization. The larger theoretical issues that affect nonprofit managers and their relationships with other stakeholders, both internal and external, will also be discussed within the context of this project-based course.