Nonprofit Management

Taught by an interdisciplinary and diverse faculty group, the NOE courses
provide students with a broad and thorough overview of nonprofit
organizations.  In NOE I (6J:247; 3 credit hours), students learn about the
operational and financial aspects of nonprofits (board governance, finance,
budgeting, income generation and fundraising) and gain an additional
understanding of nonprofits by developing mission statements and strategic
plans.  NOE II (6J:248; 3 credit hours) focuses on specific "day-to-day"
management issues in a nonprofit, including managing relationships with
staff and volunteers, communications, marketing, conflict management/negotiation,
public relations, community building and developing advocacy strategies.
(3 credits)

Experience in planning, designing, carrying out, reporting on a marketing research project for a profit or nonprofit client organization; communication with managers, application of marketing research, meeting deadlines, converting research findings into action recommendations for management. Prerequisites: 06N:211 and 06N:216. Recommended: 06M:230.
(3 credits)

Major theories, determinants of leader effectiveness, personal and career success; practical development of leadership, managerial skills to enhance individual and organizational effectiveness.
(3 credits)

How congruence in organizational strategy, structure and culture, job design, and employee characteristics produces effective organizations; emphasis on managing organizational effectiveness. Prerequisites: 06N:212.
(3 credits)

An introduction to the entrepreneurial process from conception to birth of a new venture; attributes of successful entrepreneurs, innovation and creativity, opportunity recognition, venture screening, identification of resources, feasibility analysis. Prerequisite: 06N:215.
(3 credits)

How law and ethics apply to individuals and institutions concerned with the visual arts; personal and professional ethics; communal, national, and international issues, 18th century to present; how creative production is embedded in a social, legal, and moral context; legal and moral questions that spring from visual arts activities; how law and ethics support and constrain the visual arts; group project.
(3 credits)

Concept of cultural property, measures for its protection, impact of these measures on the transfer of cultural items; traditional art and architecture, biological and fossil material, human remains; contexts in which issues have arisen, such as stolen cultural property, property acquired during armed conflict and in colonial settings, and property collected in the field or excavated; international, national, and state law, including UNESCO convention on illicit transfer of cultural property, U.S. Archaeological Resources Protection Act, Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act; how developing professional ethics codes affect the concept of cultural property.
(3 credits)

Legal regulation of philanthropic and nonprofit institutions; role, nature, and history of such institutions; tax exemption, tax treatment (including property and donor tax issues); political and legislative activities, and roles of members, directors, officers; problems of external regulation, accreditation, ethics; issues for community foundations, universities, development of philanthropic and nonprofit activity in selected Third World countries.
(3 credits)