Program Planning and Evaluation

Rigorous and honest program evaluation helps ensure that nonprofits are not only reaching program goals, but are also staying true to the organizations' missions. Funders have noted the positive effect 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

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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

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*non-credit Certificate of Completion

Planning Commissioner Online

This course provides busy planning 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 to gain leadership in planning and development for the benefit of the communities they serve. 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 learn 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.

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