Community Engagement & Missional Impact Through Nonprofit Organizations (NPM 1)

Catalog description

This is part one of a two-course course sequence designed for Divinity students preparing for leadership in a variety of non-profit settings, including churches, nongovernmental organizations, and educational contexts. The sequence provides a theological framework for nonprofit management in tandem with expert instruction from established practitioners and scholars from a variety of disciplines within the nonprofit sector. This part one course will equip students to better understand the nonprofit organization as a vehicle for community engagement and impact. The course provides tools for students to understand the community and context where they serve, design effective and impactful programs, empower staff and volunteers to implement programs in healthy, person-centered ways, and to understand the types of leadership required in different contexts.