Spring 2017  |  PA 5101 Section 001: Management and Governance of Nonprofit Organizations (67785)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue 05:45PM - 08:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-109
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Theories, concepts, and real world examples of managerial challenges. Governance systems, strategic management practices, effect of funding environments, management of multiple constituencies. Types of nonprofits using economic/behavioral approaches. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?stone039+PA5101+Spring2017
Class Description:
This course focuses on distinctive features of managing and governing nonprofit organizations and draws on current theories, concepts and real world examples to explore particular management and governance challenges. For example, these may include tensions between pursuing the nonprofit's historical mission or responding to dynamic funding markets; the need to be autonomous and avoid mission drift while depending in large part on outside sources of financial support; and questions concerning who does the leading/managing and who does the governing because of the part-time, volunteer nature of boards.
Grading:
A-F, audit and S/N allowed
Class Format:
20% Lecture
30% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
30% Guest Speakers
Workload:
100 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Students choose 4 graded assignments among these options: a non-US country profile of the NGO sector, a reflective essay on the role of nonprofits in society, management memos, a book review, an opinion editorial, and an assessment of Minnesota Council on Nonprofit's Principles and Practices for Effective Nonprofits
1 Book Report(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67785/1173
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/stone039_PA5101_Spring2017.docx
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/stone039_PA5101_Fall2015.docx (Fall 2015)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 December 2016

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