Public
and community leadership
Advanced Nonprofit Management Certificate
Is
your organization . . .
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Experiencing
tight resources?
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Facing
stricter accountability guidelines?
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Needing
to insure community, political, and financial support?
Then
you will benefit by participating in this five-day Advanced
Nonprofit Management Certificate Course.
This
course will provide the knowledge and skills necessary to
assess your program's current evaluation activities and
create a strategy for expanding your own capacity and effectiveness.
Now, as never before, nonprofit organizations operate in
an environment of tight resources and even tighter accountability.
Your ability to examine how well your program is performing
is becoming more critical with each fiscal year. Your need
to insure continued community, political, and financial
support is paramount to your success.
With this course you will
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More
fully understand and respond to the accountability pressures
using assessment strategies that work
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Understand
the terminology, definitions, and models for performance
measurement and outcome evaluation as they relate to data
planning and collection and incorporating outcomes into
management systems
Certification
follows the five full-day sessions of this program. There
is a prerequisite of either five years' nonprofit management
experience or prior completion of the University of Delaware
Nonprofit Management Certificate Course.
Course
Information
| Methodology: |
Classes
will be lecture/discussion and highly interactive, providing
a forum to apply what is learned to the real world. |
| Focus
of Course: |
The
content will explore terminology, definitions, and models
for performance evaluation, data planning and collection,
and incorporating outcomes into management systems. |
| Trainers: |
Leslie
Cooksy, Ph.D., Director, Center for Community
Research and Service, University of Delaware
Michael Camasso, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, Center
for Urban Policy Research and Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
Radha Jagannathan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Urban Studies, The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning
and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey |
| Panelists: |
The
panel will consist of various local professionals implementing
successful performance measurement and outcome evaluations. |
Summary
of Course Content:
- Overview
and history of program evaluation and outcome measures
- Getting
ready--definitions and planning for outcome measures
- Choosing
outcomes, selecting indicators and setting targets
- Planning
for data/information collection
- Gathering
data/information
- Revising
measurements and collection
- Incorporating
outcomes into management systems
- Hands-on
computer application of data management
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For
further information, or to ask about upcoming offerings
of this course, contact Melissa Watson at (302) 573-4475
or mwatson@udel.edu.
Contact
info
For
more information about this certificate course or other
community development and related programs, please contact
Melissa Watson at (302) 573-4475 or mwatson@udel.edu.
This
course is coordinated by Melissa Watson, Training Coordinator,
Center for Community Research and Service, University of
Delaware.
Advanced
Nonprofit Management Certificate courses are part of the
Nonprofit
Capacity Building Program, a partnership of the Center
for Community Research and Service and the Delaware
Association of Nonprofit Agencies.
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