Nonprofit Leadership

Catalog description

This course focuses on the best practices of creating and leading effective nonprofit organizations. Topics include board governance and accountability, motivation, resource management, decision making, communication, and executive leadership in the nonprofit context. Through discussions, lectures, case studies, experiential activities, and personal reflection, students will acquire a set of tools and strategies that will allow them to enhance stakeholder engagement, individual and organizational performance, and collective impact. Using local and global examples, and their own projects, they will explore how nonprofit leaders collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the environment, identify opportunities, and co-develop new ideas. Students will learn how to define and achieve intended impact and find sustainable solutions to social problems.