NGO Education Survey

Department: Nonprofit Professional Certificate Track

Courses:

LEAD_ART 200-0 Strategic Thinking and Leading

PHIL_NP 320-0 Financial Management of Nonprofits

PHIL_NP 325-0 Nonprofit Strategy and Governance

PHIL_NP 330-0 Legal Issues in Philanthropy

Department: Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations Certificate

Courses:

PHIL_NP 315-0: Donor Psychology and The Ask

This course explores what makes people want to give money and time to support nonprofits. Students will gain a historical perspective as well as opportunities for simulation and role-play for the “big ask.” Students will also explore the key fundraising questions driving organizational success, sustainability, and strategy, while also focusing on what drives donors to give, from tax strategy to intergenerational planning, career trajectory, and family wealth dynamics.

PHIL_NP 325-0: Nonprofit Strategy and Board Leadership

Want to help a nonprofit you care about be more strategic in a changing world? Do you desire to unleash the full potential of your nonprofit board and leaders? This course will help by providing an opportunity to learn and apply skills needed to lead and govern a nonprofit organization. Using a case study, interactive exercises let you practice crafting a mission statement and develop an organization’s strategy. You’ll also explore how to best recruit boards, structure committees, and run meetings to ensure effective leadership and oversight. Finally, you’ll have an opportunity to meet with proven leaders in the field to ask about their role in achieving successes and overcoming challenges while leading and governing their nonprofits.

PHIL_NP 335-0: Nonprofit Resilience and Reinvention Through a Crisis

Nonprofits are vital problem solvers. Crisis conditions often amplify the demand for non-profit services. To rise to the challenge, non-profits need to be resilient. And they need to reinvent themselves as they move through and beyond a crisis. This course explores how nonprofits can prepare, navigate, and advance through and beyond crisis conditions. Students will gain tools as well as opportunities for simulation and role-play. Students will learn how to apply these to non-profit operations, fundraising, and communications.

PHIL_NP 378-0: Major Gift Fundraising from Individuals, Corporations & Foundations

This course emphasizes applied fundraising. It will explore all aspects of a major gift program’s implementation, from systems and strategies to the execution of major gift fundraising. Students will gain a practical understanding of systems and processes they can share in an interview, if they are embarking on a career change to nonprofit development or apply their knowledge to their current development role.