Nonprofit Administration Graduate Certificate

The online Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Administration requires three courses:

Required Courses:

• SOWK 660 – Nonprofit Program Development (3 cr., fall)
  You will learn to:
  • Demonstrate knowledge in principles of planning, development, capacity building, and necessary elements for designing and implementing strategic programs with high-functioning teams.
  • Develop skills necessary to assume leadership, management, and program development positions in the nonprofit sector.
  • Analyze and apply knowledge of the principles and elements of ethical decision-making to real-world dilemmas within nonprofit organizations.
  • Evaluate effectiveness of organizational programs, interventions, and actions based on human service values and ethics.
  • Demonstrate critical thinking in leadership roles regarding external collaboration, community accountability, and team development skills with respect for diversity and strengths of groups and communities engaged.
  • Apply knowledge of components of program development through creation of program development proposal, including executive summary, budget, and evaluation plan.
  • Illustrate knowledge in strategic program planning and management, community organizing, staffing and boards, evaluation and implementation strategy in varied organization structures and cultures.
• SOWK 661 – Financial Development (3 cr., spring)
  You will learn to:
  • Develop an annual nonprofit strategic plan.
  • Construct clear and measurable agency goals.
  • Prepare a nonprofit budget.
  • Devise goals for fund development plan.
  • Select and analyze grant funding sources for nonprofits.
• SOWK 662 – Volunteer Development and Management (3 cr., summer)
  You will learn to:
  • Distinguish human service values, ethics, and skills for nonprofit management to volunteer programming and management.
  • Describe and apply theoretical models of volunteerism and volunteer management to organizational contexts.
  • Identify ethnocultural diversity and its impact on volunteerism and organizational engagement.
  • Assess an organization for volunteer readiness and program support needs.
  • Compare and contrast strategies for volunteer recruitment, training, and retention.
  • Examine effective volunteer involvement policies to enhance productivity towards organizational goals and minimize potential risks.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of volunteer programming and roles.
  • Volunteer programming and roles.