Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Administration

The Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Administration increases the knowledge and skills of human service professionals to provide strengths-based nonprofit program development, financial planning and management, and volunteer recruitment and retention.

Overview

The program aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop and manage nonprofit programs effectively.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

1. Apply development strategies for a nonprofit agency including: strategic plan, nonprofit budget, fund development plan, analysis of grant funding sources, and development of agency goals.
2. Apply knowledge of components of program development through creation of a program development proposal, including an executive summary, budget, and evaluation plan.
3. Distinguish and apply human service values, ethics, theories, and skills to nonprofit management and volunteer programming and management.
4. Apply theoretical models of volunteerism and volunteer management to organizational contexts and direct practice.
5. Design a volunteer recruitment, training, and evaluation plan.
6. Illustrate knowledge in strategic program planning and management, community organizing, staffing and boards, evaluation and implementation strategy in varied organization structures and cultures.

Requirements

• Course List Code | Title | Credits
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  Required Courses:|
  SOWK 660| Nonprofit Program Development| 3
  SOWK 661| Nonprofit Financial Development| 3
  SOWK 662| Nonprofit Volunteer Development & Management| 3
  Program Total Credits:| 9
• Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
• This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.

Effective Date

Effective Spring 2017.