Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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PADM 5820 - Introduction to Nonprofit Management

3 unit(s)
Course provides an overview of the non-profit sector from a strategic and governance perspective. The course will discuss issues of nonprofit organizational strategy, mission, analysis, (including the issues of planning and decision making in the nonprofit sector). It will examine the common obstacles faced by nonprofits, and develop methods of avoiding such obstacles and developing strategies to create opportunities. This course is designed to provide students with the skills and analytical abilities to successfully address concerns in nonprofit organizations. Successful management of nonprofits requires an understanding of the unique issues faced by nonprofit organizations in terms of their operating environment, their structural adaptability and their strategic response. Students will examine nonprofit issues as if they were executive directors at the helm of a nonprofit organization. Students will be expected to read assigned texts, participate in discussions of nonprofits, and perform individual case analyses assigned to them. Student groups will also be expected to present their analysis of a local nonprofit, in terms of its strategic development, its organizational challenges and an analysis of the organizational environment the nonprofit operates in. Additionally, speakers from local nonprofit agencies may be invited to address the class and provide their perspectives. 

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. 

Hours: (Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour)


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