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NMI - COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
The Nonprofit Management Institute offers courses taught by
outstanding practitioners and academicians. Each course may be taken
individually to fine-tune working knowledge or as part of a comprehensive
certificate program. Click here to view the
schedule and pricing for courses.
Designates this course is available both face-to-face and online.
NMI
102 - Human Resources Management
Required for Certificate
This course will provide you a foundation for human resource
management, including complying with federal and state employment
laws and compensation systems. You will learn practical and
lawful strategies to develop human resource policies and job
descriptions, retention strategies, and appropriate staffing
structures.
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NMI 103 - Financial Management Principles for Nonprofit Organizations
Required for Certificate
Analyze the principles of financial management for nonprofit
organizations. Learn to apply the fundamentals of accounting,
budgeting processes, cash flow analysis, expenditure control,
long-range financial planning, audits, grants and contracts
to nonprofit organizations. This class is a prerequisite for
NMI 113.
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NMI 104 - Effective Supervision
Certificate Elective
In this course, you will learn how to be an effective
supervisor based on self-assessment and practical skill development.
You will also learn what a supervisor needs to know about employment
laws, behavioral-based interviewing, performance management,
coaching and counseling, confident delegation and applying motivational
theory.
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NMI 105 - Leadership and Ethics in the Nonprofit Sector
Required for Certificate
Learn to implement principles and practices of effective
leadership in the nonprofit sector, including lobbying, empowering
staff and volunteers, and tracking emerging trends. Examine
ethical challenges in nonprofit leadership.
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106 - Basic Fundraising and Resource Development
Required for Certificate
One
major challenge facing all nonprofit leaders today is ensuring
that their organization has the financial resources it needs
to meet its mission and serve its constituency. Learn the basics
of ethical fundraising, how to manage the philanthropic process
and develop plans that will ensure the effectiveness of staff
and volunteers. This class is a prerequisite for NMI 126.
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107 - Strategic Planning in Nonprofit Organizations
Required for Certificate
In this course, you will learn a four phase process of developing
a strategic business plan for any nonprofit organization. You
will conduct a SWOTT analysis to examine the strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, threats and trends related to your organization.
You will also learn how to write organizational goals supported
by specific, measurable, aggressive, achievable, results-oriented,
and time-bound (SMAART) objectives and action plans. In addition,
by comparing and contrasting strategic planning elements among
small, medium, and large nonprofit organizations, you will learn
how to address your own organization’s strategic planning
needs.
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108 - Results-Oriented Program Evaluation
Required for Certificate
In today’s environment of growing demand and
competing priorities, a manager needs information in order to
make sound decisions about where and how to focus resources
to achieve desired results consistent with an organization’s
mission. This course covers the design and implementation of
a results-oriented program evaluation system that produces valid,
credible and useful information.
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109 - Managing Volunteer Effectiveness
Certificate Elective
Learn techniques in managing volunteers from
recruitment through effective utilization within the nonprofit
organization. Also examine creative recruitment, supervision,
training, liabilities and budgeting for volunteer expenses and
staff.
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110 - Laws and Legal Issues Affecting Nonprofit Organizations
Required for Certificate
Learn about the legal framework under which tax-exempt
organizations operate and are regulated, including a discussion
of the oversight responsibilities of the Internal Revenue Service
and various state agencies as they relate to the nonprofit sector
and tax-exempt organizations. Explore legal rights and fiduciary
obligations of directors, trustees, officers and members of
nonprofit organizations, including a discussion of conflicts
of interest, private inurement, private benefit, excess benefit
and self-dealing transactions. Also, learn about legal and tax
implications related to fundraising, charitable giving, political
activities and commercial activities of tax-exempt organizations.
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111 - Effective Board Governance in Modern Nonprofit Organizations
Required for Certificate
This
course provides a comprehensive review of contemporary board
governance issues, alternatives, and recommendations. The course
will include nonprofit organization success factors, board imperatives,
board organization, board development, board-staff relationships,
board financial management concerns, financial resource development,
and stakeholder liaison.
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112 - Marketing for the Nonprofit Organization
Certificate Elective
This course will provide principles and practices
for marketing your nonprofit organization. You will also learn
current strategies and techniques for successfully positioning
your organization and developing a marketing plan.
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NMI 113 - Advanced Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Required
for Certificate
Prerequisite: NMI 103
This course provides an in-depth study of budgeting
and planning, tax issues, internal/external reporting requirements
and technology for financial management. NMI 103 is a prerequisite
for this class.
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NMI 116 - The Press, Power and Politics
Certificate Elective
This course develops the knowledge and skills for nonprofit
advocacy, including how to build a campaign, mobilize constituents
for effective action, and organize public messaging. You’ll
learn how nonprofits can make their “message” known
to external groups and the techniques practitioners use when
working with elected officials and media. The course will also
cover the basic legal requirements for lobbying.
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NMI 119 - Diversity Strategies for the Nonprofit Organization
Required
for Certificate
In this course, you’ll learn how fostering diversity
among staff, volunteers, and board members can strengthen an
organization’s ability to serve its clients and fulfill
its mission. You’ll also learn to identify layers of diversity
and adapt strategies for recruiting, retaining, and mentoring
diverse cultures and constituencies within your organization.
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NMI 121 - Social Entrepreneurship
Certificate
Elective
This course introduces you to how nonprofit organizations
are earning income and diversifying funding through social entrepreneurship.
You will compare nonprofit to for-profit business and learn
the difference between social entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
You’ll also learn how to recognize opportunity and alternative
revenue models, as well as develop organizational structures
and nontraditional funding to launch your own nonprofit organization’s
social venture.
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NMI 126 - Advanced Fundraising and Resource Development
Certificate
Elective
Prerequisite: NMI 106
This course builds on NMI 106, to explore the structure
of an effective, professional development team, the role of
institutional planning in setting fundraising goals, creating
an annual development plan, and preparing for and implementing
capital campaigns and planned gift programs. The movement of
nonprofit organizations toward earned income strategies will
be discussed and various for-profit initiatives will be assessed.
NMI 106 is a prerequisite for this class.
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