Leadership Communication 1
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Ground yourself in the foundations of effective management communication by learning to communicate clearly, strategically, persuasively, and collaboratively in professional settings. |
Leadership Communication 2
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Build on the foundations of Leadership Communications 1 to continue to enhance your communication skills, using industry analysis and company analysis team assignments from Foundations of Strategy. |
Leadership, Ethics & Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The course focuses on two broad sets of questions. First, what principles can you draw on to analyze and improve performance in organizations? Second, what can you contribute to your firm and why should others respect and listen to you? |
Negotiations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more interdependent parties, and this course will help you to understand the theory and processes of negotiation as it is practiced in a variety of settings. |
Entrepreneurial Strategy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Do you hope to pursue start-up opportunities upon graduation, or at a later career stage? In this course, you’ll gain the information and tools you need to evaluate opportunities to starting a new firm. Topics include: how to choose markets for entry, when to enter, and what resources and capabilities it will take to provide a platform for future growth. |
0818 - Nonprofit - Board Development/Governance
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
In order to be successful, nonprofit organizations require strong leadership from their Board of Directors. The Board's responsibility is to oversee the effectiveness of management policies and decisions, including the execution of its strategies. Learn the key roles and responsibilities of the board and the essential areas of Board oversight. Discuss strategies to increase board members' commitment to the mission and purpose of your organization, and how boards must be active and engaged to fulfill their legal and governance duties. |
0816 - Nonprofit - Financial Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course provides an understanding of financial management for nonprofits and focuses on topics integral to nonprofit fiscal management. Learn finance terms as they relate to the effective operation of a nonprofit organization. Discuss how to track income and expenses to specific programs to fulfill expectations of funders, donors and the IRS. The role of the board, staff and committees are covered. Become familiar with the standards of excellence for nonprofit organizations and gain an understanding of financial statements, budgeting, and surviving an audit. Participants will gain an understanding of the broader financial realm of nonprofit organizations – where they work or volunteer. |
0812 - Nonprofit - Fundraising
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Fundraising is about more than money; it is about relationship-building and strategizing. This course addresses the most effective and successful methods of raising money. Discover ideas and activities to help you strengthen your fundraising program. Learn current trends and best practices in annual giving, retaining and upgrading current donors, prospecting new donors, engaging volunteers, and managing the fundraising process. You will be guided from "the ask" to "the acknowledgement" and will gain specific ideas to enhance your fundraising results. |
0812 - Nonprofit - Fundraising
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Fundraising is about more than money; it is about relationship-building and strategizing. This course addresses the most effective and successful methods of raising money. Discover ideas and activities to help you strengthen your fundraising program. Learn current trends and best practices in annual giving, retaining and upgrading current donors, prospecting new donors, engaging volunteers, and managing the fundraising process. You will be guided from "the ask" to "the acknowledgement" and will gain specific ideas to enhance your fundraising results. |
0813 - Nonprofit - Human Resource Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The ability to help people experience success at work creates benefits for employees, volunteers, leadership teams, organizations, and those whom your organization serves. This class addresses skills that can be used at an individual level and to better help staff with obstacles that may affect their job performance and satisfaction. Learn how to strategically respond to issues related to employee communication, motivation, delegation, and coaching; how to actively listen to and give constructive feedback to employees, volunteers, and clients; how to use team members’ individual differences to help them stay fully motivated at work; how to apply an effective step-by-step process for successful and mutually beneficial delegation with shared, defined expectations; and how to prepare for and conduct a solutions-focused coaching session that fully involves your team member to create a strategy for performance improvement. |
0574 - Nonprofit - Planning and Evaluation
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
In this course, we will discuss the who, why, when and how of program evaluation. What does it take to incorporate an effective and comprehensive program evaluation? Why does program evaluation have an impact on services and sustainability? This course is designed to be very basic. Those in attendance will learn ways in which program evaluation impacts potential funding and organizational sustainability. Participants will walk away with a basic sample of program evaluation in which they can build on and use within their organization. |
0056 - Grant Writing
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
If you are a beginning grant writer, this course will provide you with the essential tools needed to write a successful grant proposal from start to finish. For those more experienced, this workshop will sharpen your skills and keep you up-to-date through discussions of current grant writing trends. Learn about the grantsmanship process - from foundation research and cultivation to the development and writing of a winning proposal. You will learn about the typical questions funders ask when considering a proposal and the criteria used. Class participants will have an opportunity to review and critique a proposal. Tips for ensuring grant compliance and improving your chances of future grant success will be discussed. |
0192 - Budgeting for Nonprofit Organizations (online course)
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course covers budgets and how they are used in non- profit organizational settings. You will gain an understanding of the uses and functions of budget and the relationship between strategic budgeting and tactical budgeting. You will also learn about the organization-wide budget and different budget systems. The course will continue on to slightly more advanced budgeting topics such as capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets. You will also learn how non-profit organizations are using different budgeting techniques to handle operating challenges.
After completing this course, you'll be able to: explain the uses and functions of non-profit budgeting; describe the different types of budgets used by a non-profit organization; recognize the use of the organization-wide operating budget and program operating budgets; analyze a non-profit Operating Budget; explain how an operating budget is created; describe how a capital budget is used and created; explain the importance of a cash flow budget and describe how it is created; describe how an opportunity budget may be used by a nonprofit organization; and recognize how the budget process can be managed for optimal results. |
0191 - How to Read a Nonprofit Financial Statement (online course)
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course will develop your ability to appropriately interpret the major financial accounting statements that are used by non-profit organizations. Ideally, you will gain an understanding of the types of financial statements that are used by non-profit organizations, and how they differ from for-profit financial reporting. Also, you should gain an appreciation of both the power and limitations of accounting information in assessing financial performance and decision-making. You will also learn the uses of financial statement analysis, or ratio analysis for non-profit organizations.
After completing this course, you'll be able to: identify and describe the documents and financial statements included in a non-profit organization's financial report; analyze the information found in non-profit statements of financial positions; analyze the information found in the statement of activities; analyze the information found in the statement of cash flows; describe the nature of business enterprises and non-profit organizations; as reflected by the statement of financial position; and define financial (ratio) analysis and explain its objectives and limitations. |
1660 - Introduction to Nonprofit Management (online course)
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course covers management best practices for leading a nonprofit organization. You will gain an understanding of the nonprofit sector and the issues that leaders face in this exciting and growing field. You will also be exposed to the major areas of responsibility for nonprofit leaders, including strategy, managing employees, fundraising, grant writing, board governance, and marketing and social media.
After completing this course, you'll be able to:
Discuss the purpose and structure of the nonprofit sector
Describe the governance of nonprofits, including the types of boards and the relationship between boards and executive directors
Explain how nonprofits establish their vision and strategic direction
Describe the nonprofit leadership role and what it entails
Discuss servant leadership
Outline key ethical issues faced by nonprofits
Discuss how nonprofits managers handle staff and volunteers
Outline the key financial issues facing nonprofits
Describe the key legal issues facing nonprofits
Discuss the importance of marketing and communication for a nonprofit
Explain the basics of nonprofit fundraising
Outline the grant writing process
Discuss the growing importance of social media for nonprofits
Define and explain social entrepreneurship and social innovation
Outline methods for assessing nonprofit performance
Discuss trends impacting nonprofits now and in the future
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0190 - Principles of Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations (online course)
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
When we think of marketing, we typically think of the activities that a for-profit company engages in. However, marketing is an important function for non-profit organizations as well. Marketing is the way that non-profits determine the needs of their clients and their donors. As in the for-profit world, nonprofit marketing includes advertising, promotion, public relations, and customer relationship management. This course examines how non-profits use marketing to publicize their mission and to gather contributions of time and money. The course also discusses marketing planning in the non-profit organization.
After completing this course, you should be able to: define what marketing is within the non-profit environment; explain the service-intensive nature of non-profit program activities; explain how the marketing mix is expanded for service products (the 3Ps of Services Marketing); describe the importance of customer satisfaction and how expectations play a role in satisfaction with service products; discuss the role of ethics in non-profit marketing; describe the importance of and explain the process of non-profit marketing plan; describe how target markets can be identified for donors; and explain how new service products are developed by non-profits. |
