LDR511 Nonprofit Management
Leaders of nonprofit organizations are responsible to shape and navigate governance structures, create and manage financial processes and navigate risk dynamics across multifaceted political, social and economic contexts. This course lays a foundation of concepts and skills necessary to design and lead the essential structural functions of nonprofit organizations with the full range of stakeholders in view.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Examine nonprofit management, the nonprofit sector, and nonprofit organizations.
- Analyze the governance and leadership aspects of nonprofit organizations with the interests of all stakeholders in view.
- Apply an understanding of board governance theory in the determination of appropriate division of authority and responsibility and in the development of productive approaches to planning, oversight, and problem solving.
- Create, monitor, and modify operating budgets based on solid operational planning and sound financial forecasting, reporting, and analysis.
- Compare and contrast the functions of obtaining and managing resources.
- Build familiarity with legal standards and precedents pertaining to issues of organizational liability.
- Analyze, administrate, and monitor a sound organizational risk management policy.