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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the basics of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. The class will include: how to establish and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy; how to establish positive relationships with current and potential donors; different approaches for fundraising from individual and institutional donors; the roles played by nonprofit boards, staff and volunteers in the fundraising effort, and best practices in nonprofit fundraising.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the history and theory behind the teaching of kindness to animals, and explore some of the most important topics in contemporary studies of humane education. These include the development of empathy and the theory of transference, the relevance of gender differences in attitudes and conduct toward animals, the challenge of correlation or blending and the evaluation of humane education's impacts and outcomes. What is the relationship between humane education and character education? What is the relationship between humane education and environmental education?
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3.00 Credits
This course examines basic health and behavioral management issues involving shelter animals. Topics include epidemiology, shelter design and sanitation, immunization and vaccination policy, management of data, disease treatment protocols, the basic principles of nutrition and feeding, and collaboration with public health agencies.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will consider the strategic importance of employees in helping an organization fulfill its mission and goals. They will learn about best practices in recruitment and hiring, placement and orientation, staff development, environmental health and safety, labor relations, employee recognition, and compensation and benefits. The importance of understanding HR policy, employment agreements, fair employment practices, documentation, and labor law will be stressed. The course will adopt the perspective of the HR generalist who must also learn where to go when additional expertise is needed.
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3.00 Credits
This course, designed especially for animal care and control professionals and other animal advocates, will provide students with the expertise to assess the signs and symptoms of compassion stress, and to utilize appropriate strategies to prevent compassion fatigue and its related stresses, traumas, and illnesses. Particular emphasis is placed on the animal.
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3.00 Credits
Nonprofit organizations operate in a dynamic environment in which many other agencies compete for resources while serving the same constituency by providing a variety of services. Skilled leaders know how to assess an organization's current level of performance, and then move the organization toward even greater effectiveness. This course will teach leaders to think strategically in such a context as they plan for.
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3.00 Credits
In the past four decades, the modern animal protection movement in the United States has worked to improve the lives of animals by providing shelter and safety, winning local, state and national policy protections, and transforming social attitudes and human behavior. Drawing on both sociological and political science literature on social movements, the course explores the ideas, activists, issues and organizations that comprise the animal protection movement and the diverse set of strategies employed by the movement, including public education, protest, lobbying, litigation, direct service, and elections. The course also examines the myriad of economic interests that oppose efforts to gain protections for companion animals, farm animals, wild animals, and animals in research.
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3.00 Credits
The use of strategies and tactics to generate public awareness, change public policy, or otherwise influence attitudes and conduct is fundamental to humane work. Public relations, communications concepts and marketing techniques will be examined with respect to building relationships with the media and external constituencies. Students will examine nonprofit public relations and marketing communications particular to animal shelters. Emphasis is on practical application of public relations concepts and marketing strategies. The course relies in part on case studies and tactics that aid in developing a marketing and PR plan for the nonprofit organization.
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