This page contains articles on our students, instructors and partners – either written by us or published in other venues.

On our CNM website, we also have a news page: Nonprofit News. That page is updated approximately every two months, highlighting the most recent nonprofit management news from around the world that relates to upcoming CNM courses. We also use that page to post feature stories of our CNM instructors and CNM graduates. Please be sure to check Nonprofit News often!

If you have any ideas or links for Prof Ed news, or if you would like to post an article about your organization, please e-mail Sarah Rothschild sroths1@uic.edu.

Read about exciting Prof Ed news from 2006

If we haven't convinced you yet that online learning and certificate
programs are a great way to learn the skills you need to improve your work, read this article from the Chicago Tribune that discusses some of the great programs available at colleges and universities around the Chicago area - including our very own UIC Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management!

Instructors

Interview with Margo De Ley
May 24, 2007
Office of Professional Education
UIC Great Cities Institute
Chicago, Illinois
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Prof Ed interviewed CNM’s newest instructor, Margo De Ley, who will be teaching Fundraising Management this July. For those of you reading this in Chicago, Margo needs no introduction. From 1994 until 2005, Margo was a senior program officer at the Chicago Community Trust. During her tenure at the Trust, Margo spearheaded many important initiatives and worked in several different grant-making areas, all while significantly improving the Latino community’s access to grants and philanthropic resources.

Margo has served on the awards committee for two very important nonprofit awards in Chicago: the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards and the Chicago Community Organizing Awards.

Currently, Margo is the president of De Ley and Associates, a consulting firm which serves foundations, nonprofits and other public service institutions. Click here to read our interview with Margo.

Interview with Marty Berg
May 10, 2006
Office of Professional Education
UIC Great Cities Institute
Chicago, Illinois
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Prof Ed staff interviewed Marketing Management instructor Martin Berg to hear from the pro what he thinks the biggest marketing issues are facing nonprofits today and to get his advice on marketing methods and resources. View the PDF here.

Consulting for Community Empowerment: Bob Brehm, Technical Assistance for Community Organizations
June 9, 2006
Alliance for Nonprofit Management
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CNM’s own Bob Brehm, who is teaching the Strategic Management course in September, 2006, is featured in the “Member Spotlight” section of Enhance: The Newsletter of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management

Students

Serving on Boards

Julia Masi, CNM certificate recipient in August 2005, shares her experiences from serving on numerous nonprofit boards. This article discusses the benefits of serving on a board as well as why board members should participate in professional development opportunities in addition to the typical board training that orients board members to the organization and provides an overview of their legal responsibilities.

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Wartime Student Learns Best Practices in Nonprofit Management…in Afghanistan

By Sarah Rothschild
Great Cities Institute
Chicago, Illinois
February 26, 2007
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David Clements, Director of Business Development at the Children's Home in Cantonsville, Maryland, has been taking the CNM classes while stationed overseas in Afghanistan. Read this article to learn more about why David chose to take UIC 's Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management courses.

CAF Learning From North Lawndale Exhibit Ends
By Hertz Clyde Dézir
North Lawndale Community News
Chicago, Illinois
November 22, 2006
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Nicole Cabell-Pope, Board President for Lawndale Heritage, and recent CNM graduate in the class of October 2006, helped to co-organize a thought-provoking exhibit “Learning from North Lawndale” on the history of the North Lawndale Community, along with the Chicago Architecture Foundation and members of UIC’s faculty. The Lawndale Heritage Board is an historic and cultural preservation organization dedicated to highlighting and enhancing the unique assets of the community of North Lawndale on Chicago’s west side. Lawndale Heritage will be launching a first in North Lawndale: a museum to house more history about the community, its people, places and architecture. The Museum will feature the exhibit that has been gifted to Lawndale Heritage, as one of it’s first running events, along with some history that UIC’S David Brown, curator of the “Learning from North Lawndale” exhibit, will be passing on to the organization. And, hot off the press is a new book entitled The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale, edited by Roberta M. Feldman and Jim Wheaton (Chicago, IL: City Design Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006), in it Cabell-Pope has authored a chapter on Lawndale Heritage.

Ms. Cabell-Pope is also a member of the Historic Greystone Initiative Steering Team, through Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago and a board member for Strategic Human Services, North Lawndale Community News.

Ms. Cabell-Pope is an award winning Professional speaker and co-founder/ Executive Director, along with her husband Cedric Pope, of Build Today, Lead Tomorrow (BTLT), a youth development organization that is launching an online radio station called WNLO: North Lawndale Online. Ms. Cabell-Pope was recently awarded the Steans Family Foundation’s “2006 Spirit of Youth Development Award”. UIC’s Great Cities Institute’s Vernon Jarrett Senior Fellow Program created a partnership with the BTLT to offer them capacity building support, which included enrollment in the CNM program.

Strategic Management in Action: an Interview with the Neighborhood Technology Resource Center
August 4, 2006
By the Professional Education department of the Great Cities Institute, the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Still debating whether or not to take the Strategic Management course at UIC’s Certificate in Nonprofit Management program? This article will provide you with enough reasons to enroll right now! We have highlighted the successful implementation of tools learned in this course by a well-run and well-respected organization in Chicago.