Nonprofit Leadership: Trends & Innovation

Issued by Madison College

Offered in partnership with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, this course is 1 of 8 courses needed to earn the Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential. This course highlights the nature of employment in the nonprofit sector, including applying and interviewing for a job, and the dynamic nature of the nonprofit sector, the importance of continuous improvement, emerging trends, and innovations and the critical role research play sin shaping best practices.

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Earning Criteria

Pass the Final Quiz with a 75% or greater
Complete the Final Project Artifact: Participants will create a start-up nonprofit business, create a structure for the business, and determine how this business might be taken globally in the future with a 75% or greater total rubric score.
Recognize the importance of applying scientific methods in the development, design, implementation, and evaluation of nonprofit programs.
Demonstrate an understanding of the external factors that influence nonprofit organizations and ways in which nonprofit organizations anticipate and respond to those influences.
Recognize the evolution of the field as important to accessing more resources and accomplishing greater outcomes.
Prepare a proposal outlining what shifts in resources, practices, etc. would be necessary in order for an organization to implement an emerging best practice.
Demonstrate knowledge of global issues, processes, trends, and systems.