Program Overview

Program Overview

The Non-Profit Management Certificate program is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the evolving challenges and opportunities in the non-profit world. The program focuses on process-oriented approaches that are adaptive, inclusive, equitable, and focused on continuous learning.

Course Details

The program includes a course on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (NPM320), which covers the development of effective and responsive evaluation strategies. The course is offered online, with a self-paced format within deadlines set by the instructor, and a duration of 13 weeks. The tuition fee for the course is $875.

Course Objectives

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Analyze personal, structural, and systemic factors that affect equity-focused, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and participatory evaluation practices
• Apply practical methodologies for program planning, monitoring, and evaluation in complex systems
• Generate effective engagement strategies
• Outline emerging evaluation approaches that include developmental evaluation and principle-focused evaluation
• Communicate evaluation findings
• Identify evaluation standards, principles, and codes of behavior relevant to non-profit management

Learning and Evaluation

Students will learn through a combination of reading assignments, online discussions, and coursework, with an expected time commitment of 10 hours per week. Evaluation will be based on assignments and participation in online discussions.

Technical Requirements

The course will be delivered through the Canvas online system, and students will need a computer with audio and microphone capabilities, connected to the internet.

Program Application

The course can be applied to the Non-Profit Management Certificate program, and students can register for the course at any time, with the option to apply to the program later.