90-768, Sustainability Strategies for Nonprofits: Matching Money to Mission

6 units

Prerequisites: None

Delivery Format: On-Campus

Description:
While billions of dollars flow annually into the nonprofit sector, most NGOs struggle to secure capital for infrastructure and growth and cover planned and unanticipated costs, let alone build reserves. This problem has as much to do the culture, structure, and public policies surrounding money in the nonprofit sector as it does with the adequacy of supply.

This course aims to expand practitioners' and students' repertoire in planning and deploying appropriate funding strategies to fortify nonprofit organizations financially for the long term. The course builds awareness of the structure of nonprofit financing, barriers to funding, and strategies for better integrating money and mission. It explores options to change policy and improve common field practices. It also uses Pittsburgh-based demonstrations of good practice as case studies.

The course is team-taught by instructors with expertise in the three distinct funding streams that nonprofits need to consider: grants and contributions, earned income through social enterprise, and government funding through contracts, fee for service and grants.

Last modified on May 2, 2008