Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in Financial Management in Human Services

The Graduate Certificate in Financial Management in Human Services is designed to provide current and future human services leaders with the tools to understand and oversee the financial aspects of their organization. This graduate-level certificate prepares students with a functional understanding of how their organization's finances work, without requiring prior knowledge of finance or accounting.

Comprehensive Curriculum

The comprehensive curriculum covers a range of topics, including:

• Budgeting skills, such as basic financial ratios
• Risk and reward
• Depreciation
• The time value of money
• Interpreting financial statements
• Management of fee-for-service
• IRS rules that affect nonprofits
• The uses of long-term, intermediate, and short-term financing
• Issues of agency
• Fund development
• Fundraising
• Grant writing and grant management
• Financial and organizational ethics

Benefits of the Program

The 18-credit Financial Management in Human Services certificate program provides organizational leaders with the tools they need to become comfortable with addressing their organization's short- and long-term financial health and well-being. Fluency in the concepts and language of money and finance will increase credibility when seeking new sources of financing and renewing existing sources of financing.

Stackable Credentials

This certificate is part of a series of stackable credentials, allowing students to incorporate coursework into their WilmU M.S. in Human Services or M.S. in Professional Studies through the Dual-Credit ADVANTAGE program.

Program Formats and Locations

The Financial Management in Human Services certificate is available in the following formats and locations:

• Online

Professionals Who Would Benefit From This Program

The following professionals would benefit from this program:

• Community & Social Services Managers
• Human Services Managers
• Human Services Administrators

Program Details

• Classes start every 8 weeks
• The program can be completed online
• The Dual-Credit ADVANTAGE program allows students to earn multiple credentials simultaneously, accelerating their educational goals and making their credits more valuable.