Managing Nonprofit Organizations

Catalog description

Students will learn the knowledge, skills, and values for managing nonprofit organizations. We will examine how non-profits develop their mission, strategic plan, and program model, as well as how they fund their efforts and continuously improve their performance. Students will apply their knowledge through case study explorations of different Chicagoland non-profits. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the evolving non-profit sector; students will demonstrate an analytic ability to assess non-profit strategy; students will understand the management skills needed at high-performing non-profits