Courses and Programs

 
   
   
   
Leadership Ethics

Program Planning and Evaluation

Rigorous and honest program evaluation helps ensure that nonprofits are not only reaching program goals, but also staying true to the organizations' missions. Funders have noted the positive affect of quality evaluations and are directing nonprofit organizations to evaluate their programs. This course provides an overview of how to create effective evaluations that can be used for program development and grantwriting.

Through this course, students will learn how to:
    • identify strategy effectiveness programmatically and in different       communities
    • illuminate accomplishments from specific funding sources
    • assess the cost-effectiveness of different strategies
    • position high quality projects for future funding opportunities
    • increase the effectiveness of project and program management
    • contribute to policy development

For more information about this course, click here.

Certificate in Nonprofit Management

The University of Illinois at Chicago Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management emphasizes interactive learning, with seasoned instructors guiding every class. You will learn management principles across disciplines through dialogue with other nonprofit practitioners and interaction with Certificate in Nonprofit Management faculty. The program is entirely online, which allows participants from across the country and around the world to work together and learn from each other in a stimulating e-classroom. The Certificate is comprised of six non-credit, intensive five-week courses delivered via the Internet. Each class can be taken on a stand-alone basis, but you must successfully complete all six courses to earn the Certificate*. For more information about the program, http://cnm.cuppa.uic.edu

To download a PDF of the CNM brochure, click here.

*non-credit Certificate of Completion


Planning Commissioner Online

The course provides busy plan commission members an affordable, quality
educational experience while allowing them the flexibility of accessing the course when their schedules allow. Communities throughout the Chicago area and the United States can use PCO as a critical first-learning experience for new commissioners. Students will develop the necessary tools to do their job effectively and gain leadership in planning and development that their
communities need. For more information about the program, http://pco.cuppa.uic.edu

Mastering Grant Writing

Master the art and science of grant writing through this highly interactive online seminar, offered in conjunction with the UIC Great Cities Institute. Working with an expert grant writer/instructor, participants will probe and practice the basic steps of writing a successful grant proposal. Through hands-on writing exercises and case study critiques, you will learn how to shape proposal concepts; needs statements; goals, objectives and strategies; program budgets; evaluations and more. Learn from nonprofit practitioners in other cities and countries as you dialogue collectively with your instructor on a password-protected course web site. For more information about the seminar, http://www.uic.edu/depts/oee/writers/grant.htm


Leadership Ethics for Nonprofit Professionals

Leadership Ethics for Nonprofit Professionals explores the complex and subjective topic of organizational ethics. The course teaches participants how to recognize, analyze and address ethical issues in the nonprofit workplace. You will have the opportunity to discuss case studies of management problems in today’s nonprofit organizations and you can bring your own ethical questions and workplace issues to our Discussion Forum.

For more information about this course, click here.


Nonprofit Management Series

The University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to present as part of the Great Cities Institute Seminar Series

The Nonprofit Management Series

Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall, 412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607


Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.

Martin Berg

IF YOUR TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST, BE SURE IT MAKES A SOUND:
Marketing Challenges for Nonprofit Organizations

Too often nonprofits assume that because they are doing good work, somehow everyone will know about it; nothing could be further from the truth. Nonprofits are a type of business, and like all businesses they must know how to promote themselves to appropriate target markets. CNM Adjunct Instructor Martin Berg will discuss why marketing is vital to nonprofits, and will offer some practical insights.

Martin Berg
Director of Marketing and Communications for Community Investment Corporation, specializes in marketing, fundraising management and operations management.. Mr. Berg is a member of the Publicity Club of Chicago, Public Relations Society of America, American Marketing Association, Independent Writers of Chicago and the Chicago Newspaper Guild/CWA Local #34071, AFL – CIO. Mr. Berg has over 25 years of nonprofit public relations/marketing experience.


Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.

Dottie Johnson

Instituting the “Platinum” Standard via Sarbanes-Oxley

The public accountability of nonprofits has increased dramatically in the last three years. With the recent high-profile scandals, nonprofit organizations are under significant scrutiny. Nonprofits should leverage proven best practices stemming from Sarbanes-Oxley implementation in the corporate world in order to promote a solid infrastructure and to create a “platinum” standard of operations and governance. Practical tips for leveraging the power and value of SOX requirements within nonprofit organizations will be provided.

Dottie Joohnson
CPA, and Director of Consulting Services for Lumity has more than twenty-five years of nonprofit experience, with personal expertise in accounting and financial management for nonprofit organizations. Ms. Johnson is an active member of the Illinois Society of CPA and of the Nonprofit Education Sub-Committee and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.


For more information: (312) 996-8700

We look forward to seeing you.

     
 
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or by e-mail at prof-ed@uic.edu
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