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3.00 Credits
The process of grant acquisition, beginning with the formulation of a fundable idea and concluding in an application and its review. Students are expected to identify potential funding sources, initiate inquiries, and develop an application for funds to support a program or study of special interest. The steps in this process are discussed in general terms and in the context of each student's application. The focus is the development of grants from private rather than public funders.
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3.00 Credits
Creating an environment for successful fund development within a nonprofit organization is a serious undertaking that requires a substantive understanding of and experience with development programs and fundraising practices. Course provides the learner with the basic theories, principles and techniques for fund development.
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3.00 Credits
Intended to develop knowledgeable leaders for the nonprofit sector that understand how to establish and manage newly emerging organizations. Examines a wide range of management and leadership needs, problems and issues that arise for an organization in its early years. Explores how an organization develops and emerges and how the traditional tasks of management: supervision, planning, budgeting, fundraising and marketing can be most effectively administered.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive immersion program in Oaxaca, Mexico offered by the Institute for Nonprofit Management in the Hatfield School of Government. Course includes nonprofit field study and site visits, cultural immersion homestays and visits to cultural sites. The program varies from year to year in the types of nongovernmental nonprofit organizations the students visit based in part on the interests of the students who register. Site visits in recent years have included programs for juvenile offenders and gang members, human rights advocacy groups, medical clinics, an AIDS education program, and a coalition of environmental groups. On-site translation is provided so that proficiency in Spanish is not necessary, but Spanish language study is part of the immersion experience.
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3.00 Credits
Drawing on the general concept of the policy cycle, this course explores the central actors, processes, and issues associated with the formation of public policy. The course gives particular weight to interaction among the three branches of government, interest groups, and the private sector. Tensions between technocratic and political approaches to policy development also receive attention, as do intergovernmental concerns.
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3.00 Credits
When policies receive the formal status of laws, they acquire a special significance for the executive and judicial branches. This course examines the process of policy implementation through the use of administrative discretion and the rule-making process. Delegation of legislative power, judicial review, informal adjudication, and the role of the administrative law judge are emphasized. The limits of discretionary authority are explored. Students address the theoretical, practical, and ethical issues in implementation, giving particular attention to the relationship between stated goals and actual outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the role of citizen advocacy and political participation in the United States in the twenty-first century. Investigates the many meanings of the term "civil society," as well as the role of nonprofit and voluntary organizations in lobbying and advocacy, and the role of citizen movements in shaping local, national and global democracy. Will discuss and analyze specific advocacy campaigns with a focus on strategy.
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3.00 Credits
As a seminar in public administration, the National Policy Process is studied on-site in Washington, D.C. Attention is paid to the actors and the action of policy process, to the institutionalization of that process, and to the administrative components of that process. Meetings are arranged with key policy actors in appropriate organizations including the Office of Management and Budget, Congressional staff, lobbyists and think tanks, the General Accounting Office, regulatory boards and various agencies. A current piece of legislation or set of legislative initiative is used as a case study throughout the week.
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3.00 Credits
Managing organizational systems to accomplish purposeful outcomes. Attention is given to how formal structures and informal processes influence organizational goals in public and nonprofit environments. This includes theories of organizational, group, and individual behavior, such as organizational design, power and authority, leadership, teamwork, communications, work design, and motivation. Emphasis is on managers and managing in public purpose organizations by reviewing major theories and their application and effective use.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of organizational theory and behavior in health services organizations. Emphasis is on developing an understanding of the factors and forces which influence the organization, behavior, and operations of health services delivery organizations through consideration of organizations, their environments, and the roles of individuals working in management.
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