Certificate in Nonprofit Management

CERTIFICATE IN NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT

 The Certificate in Nonprofit Management is for graduate students in majors other than the Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management who complete four of the core courses in the nonprofit curriculum. This certificate program will help meet the need for understanding the nonprofit organizations that provide employment for many graduates. The program consists of a minimum of 4 courses of 3 semester hours each, drawn from the core courses of the Master's degree curriculum of the Institute. 

1.   Two courses are required:

  • MNPO 7123   Theory and Management of Nonprofit Organizations
  • MNPO 7106   Program Evaluation*

2.   Two courses may be chosen from the following list of MNPO core courses:

  • MNPO 6023   Human Behavior in Nonprofit Organizations
  • MNPO 6162   Ethical Issues in Professional Practice
  • MNPO 7060   Fundraising
  • MNPO 7377   Managing Volunteers
  • MNPO 7423   Innovation and Change in Nonprofit Organizations
  • MNPO (# TBA)   Grant Writing for Nonprofit Organizations
  • ALDR 7200   Leadership
  • ALDR 7350   Group, Team, and Organizational Development
  • EADU 8190   Human Resources Development
  • EADU 8200   Theory and Practice of Educational Change
  • HPAM 8800   Leadership in Public Health
  • JURI 7920   Taxation of Exempt Organizations
  • POLS 6490   Administrative Law
  • SOWK 7206   Evaluation of Family Centered Social Work Intervention
  • WFED 7110   Strategic Human Resource & Organization Development

*Social Work PhD students may substitute SOWK 8126, Research Methods in Social Work II, for MNPO 7106

 In some cases, one of the courses toward the Certificate may come from a different field if the relationship to the nonprofit sector, issues, or management is clear.  The student must discuss this option with the program director, Dr. Michelle Carney, before taking the course.  All decisions concerning granting the Certificate, including credit for courses outside the MNPO core curriculum, rest with the program director.

GUIDELINES TO APPLY FOR THE CERTIFICATE

1.      Students must be pursuing a graduate degree at UGA to apply for the certificate program.

2.      Students must submit a LETTER OF INTENT TO PURSUE THE CERTIFICATE to Dr. Michelle Carney before you may enter the certificate program.  Letters should include your purpose in pursuing the certificate and its relevance to your program of study.  Please submit your letter by email to mmcarney@uga.edu.  Once she has received your email, she may want to set up an appointment with you to discuss your options.

3.      After you have been approved and advised for the certificate program, requests for the certificate can only be made after the grades for the courses have been posted.

4.      When all of your course grades have been posted you must do the following:

5.     Fill out the REQUEST FOR THE CERTIFICATE IN NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT FORM.  Click here for the form.

6.     Submit this form, along with a UGA TRANSCRIPT (either an unofficial OASIS transcript or an official transcript from the Registrar’s office) by campus mail, U.S. mail, or by email as a PDF file to:

Ms. Kat Farlowe

University of Georgia School of Social Work

MNPO Program Office

416 Tucker Hall

Athens, GA   30602-7016

 

 

For more information you may contact Dr. Michelle Carney, Director of The Institute for Nonprofit Organizations at mmcarney@uga.edu, or Ms. Kat Farlowe, Assistant Graduate Coordinator, kfarlowe@uga.edu or 706-542-5461.

For a PDF version of the guidelines, click here.
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