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3.00 Credits
Designed to provide a comprehensive overview of funding sources available to nonprofit organizations (e.g., foundation and governmental grants, individual and corporate donations, entrepreneurial sources of revenue and events.), as well as detailed information on how to secure support of the various sources presented. Additionally, students are expected to gain both theoretical and practical knowledge relevant to why it is important to diversify an organization’s revenue streams. Cross-listed with PUAD 7150.
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3.00 Credits
The important roles and responsibilities of a voluntary board of directors and the process of governing are often misunderstood. This course explores the special powers of a nonprofit board of directors as framed by and responsive to public policy. From the perspective of organizational behavior and theory, the course examines the leadership role and interplay between board members and the executive director. The examination includes a comparative analysis of different governing models, and explores fundamental questions of board composition, the role of advisor boards, achieving effective board meetings, the realm of liability, using committees, and the board’s role in fundraising, among other special subject matter. Cross-listed with PUAD 7160.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to train public and nonprofit managers in the effective use of strategic management tools and techniques traditionally used by corporations. Strategic management tools and skills, although traditionally used by business, should not be seen as the exclusive domain of corporations. The course teaches students how to adapt traditional strategic management capabilities to the particular conditions of public and nonprofit organizations. Cross-listed with PUAD 7170.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to introduce students to the concept of social entrepreneurship. Using nonprofit (and public) organizational examples, students gain an understanding of what it means to be an innovative manager. Students study techniques designed to advance an organization’s mission and increase organizational effectiveness, accountability and efficiency through the use of for-profit techniques within a nonprofit context. Cross-listed with PUAD 7180.
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3.00 Credits
The study and practice of human resource management to build effective organizations. This course reviews the process of staffing an organization, motivating and managing employees from the initial steps of describing a position and determining compensation to recruiting qualified and diverse applicants, screening and selecting good employees, hiring, training, motivating, developing and providing feedback to employees; and layoffs and promotions. Contemporary issues concerning managerial flexibility and merit pay will be reviewed. Prereq: PUAD 5002 or PUAD 7002. Cross-listed with PUAD 7220.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the basic literature of intergovernmental management and examines the interactive role of managers at federal, state, and local levels of government. Emphasis is placed on current intergovernmental issues. Cross-listed with PUAD 7250.
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3.00 Credits
Using a systems approach, diversity within organizations is examined through the construction and review of theories in private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Existing models of managing diversity are examined and analyzed. Cross-listed with PUAD 7260.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the process of change in organizations, communities, society, and conflicts that arise. Through the use of relevant case studies and role playing exercises, students are provided a practical framework for looking at change and managing conflict associated with change. Cross-listed with PUAD 7271.
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3.00 Credits
Designed for SPA international students, especially those in their first or second semester, students will compare US culture and its public and nonprofit organizations (NGOs) with those in their home countries. Class sessions include: site visits; guest speakers from public and non-profit organizations; case studies, with an emphasis on applying theory to current issues in public policy and management.
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3.00 Credits
Building on PUAD 5005, students learn how policy is developed and implemented in several levels of government - local, state, federal - and within organizations themselves. The course makes use of the case studies to explore the intricacies of developing and implementing policy and the political, economic, and institutional contexts that affect these two states of policy development. Students also consider the different criteria that can be used to judge the effectiveness of programs and policies. Prereq: PUAD 5005 or 7005. Cross-listed with PUAD 7310.
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