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25% Prepayment discount on purchase of entire certificate for Michigan Nonprofit Association Members. Login to this link at MNA for discount code.
25% Prepayment discount of purchase of entire certificate for Association of Fundraising Professionals. CFRE education points approved for these courses.
Nonprofit Management Certificate
- Nonprofit sector: history, diversity and impact
- Legal frameworks and Governance
- Ethical issues (what are the ethical issues and boundaries of nonprofits in the U.S.)
- Leadership Models and Challenges
- Advocacy, Lobbying, and Collaborations
- Nonprofit challenges and how to cope with it
- Summary of the best management practices in the nonprofit sector
- Fundraising and accountability
- Innovations and entrepreneurial ideas in the sector
- Understanding grant writing
- Relationship building
- Planned giving
- Managing annual campaigns
- Summary of innovative activities and fundraising in the nonprofit field
- Strategic financial planning
- Financial reporting for nonprofits
- Accounting for nonprofit managers
- Budget development
- Financial investment and savings
- Managing of restricted and unrestricted funds, cash-flow problems
- Overview of principles of proper financial management in nonprofits
- Measuring, assessing and evaluating impact at organizational level
- Measuring, assessing and evaluating impact at programmatic level
- Developing measurable and feasible ways of success
- Quantitative & qualitative data
- Sustainable strategic planning
- How to report performance
- Trends and challenges in social impact measurement
- Leadership within a nonprofit organization (BOD and CEO) and their roles and responsibilities
- Employment Law
- Staff management and development (attracting, recruiting, retaining, motivating, supervising)
- Volunteer management and development (attracting, recruiting, retaining, motivating, supervising)
- Cultural competency and diversity
- Leadership challenges and moral expectations
- Summary of the best personnel management practices in the nonprofit sector
- Marketing/advertisement
- Ethical use of communications and PR
- Donor management
- Community outreach
- Effective Information/communication technology
- “Big data” in advancing the causes of nonprofits
- Trends, challenges and best practices in communication, marketing & outreach
Cost per course: $695
Course frequency: One 3-hour instructor-led "meeting session" per week, email communications and assignments.
Total course length: 7 weeks
Total contact hours: 21 hours
Minimum 10 person cohort. (Class will begin as scheduled if 10 students have registered.)
Course Start & End Dates 2020/2021 | Course Title | CRN | Class Format (until further notice) | Times |
Start Date: September 8, 2020 End Date: October 20, 2020 | Management Best Practices Instructor: Allandra Bulger | 100% online, synchronous class meetings | Tuesday Evenings | |
End Date: | Performance Metrics in Instructors: Dr. Truman Hudson | 100% online, synchronous class meetings | Tuesday Evenings | |
Start Date:
| Entrepreneurship & Fund Development Instructor: Aimee Argel | 100% online, synchronous class meetings | Tuesday Evenings | |
Start Date: February 23, 2021 End Date: April 6, 2021 | Communication, Marketing & | 100% online, synchronous class meetings | Tuesday Evenings | |
Start Date: April 20, 2021 End Date: June 1, 2021 | Leadership Instructor: Maureen Rovas | 100% online, synchronous class meetings | Tuesday Evenings | |
Start Date: | Financial Management & Accountability for Nonprofit Managers | 100% online, synchronous class meetings | Tuesday Evenings 6 - 9 PM |
Allandra Bulger