LDRS 730 Non-profit Management and Leadership Strategies

This course offers students the opportunity to experience the major opportunities, challenges, and issues in non-profit leadership. This course covers governance and boards of directors, organizational staffing and volunteers, accountability, regulation and ethics, strategic planning, stakeholder collaboration, advocacy and lobbying, communications and marketing, financial management, and burnout management. Students choose a non-profit to closely follow throughout the course and complete a portfolio for each area.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Outcomes

1. 01. Articulate different types of governance and non-profit board leadership styles. (PSLOs 1, 3, 4)
2. 02. Understand nonprofit accountability and regulations. (PSLOs 2, 4)
3. 03. Synthesize mission and goals within strategic planning. (PSLOs 1, 3, 4)
4. 04. Learn techniques for staff and volunteer management and strategies for reducing burnout. (PSLOs 1, 3, 4)
5. 05. Create collaboration, communications, and marketing strategies. (PSLOs 1, 3, 4)