As a nonprofit professional, if you looking to maximize your nonprofit organization’s staff, resources, and day to day operations and seeking to add value to your professionalism through certified competency, the Nonprofit Management Certificate is right for you.

Nonprofit knowledge experts provide experienced engaging, practice-oriented learning experiences that focus on best practices, and proven methods, skills and techniques that can immediately be implemented in your nonprofit organization.

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Nonprofit Management Certificate

This certificate is designed to meet the professional needs of senior-level managers and emerging executives of nonprofit and public organizations. The curriculum is designed in a cohort format to promote skill-building and peer networking among seasoned leaders.

The instructional team for this certificate includes current and former CEOs and executive directors of nonprofit organizations, with extensive experience as change-making practitioners in the social sector. A combination of instructional practices and technological methodologies are used in this certificate to provide an engaging, practice-oriented learning environment that focuses on knowledge, skills and techniques that can be put to use immediately.

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Nonprofit Executive Leadership Certificate

Are you looking for a certificate to help you take that next step in your nonprofit career? If so, the Fundraising and Sustainable Financial Management Certificate is for you.

The Fundraising and Sustainable Financial Management Certificate is a certificate of distinction for individuals who wish to gain additional knowledge and skills in fundraising, strategic planning, board governance, financial management and more! Course content includes the most highly relevant topics needed to lead and manage the fundraising efforts for a nonprofit organization. This certificate program is sharply focused on these topics in order to offer the individual a deeply engaging and robust experience.

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Fundraising and Sustainable Financial Management Certificate

Securing funding for nonprofit organizations can be extremely competitive. Nonprofits depend on a successful proposal process to produce compelling proposals to achieve their missions. Whether you are a student or working professional, you will benefit from instruction by an experienced grant writer with real-world experience as he/she guides you through the step-by-step processes for state and foundation proposals.

The overall strategic plan for writing grants will be addressed, including the needs statement, mission, goals, objectives, evaluation, key personnel, outcomes, and budgets. During this seven-week certification program, the knowledge specialist will use interactive exercises, lectures, and discussions to demonstrate how to research and write your specific project. This is a fast-paced and intensive course.

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Grant Development: State and Foundation Proposals Certificate

The ASU Lodestar Center is a GPCI Accepted Education Provider. Full participation in each program is applicable for 3 points in Category 1 - Education.

The seven-week Advanced Grant Development: Federal Proposals Certificate is designed to provide the participant with the resources, expert-guided practice, and mentoring to be able to write a competitive federal grant proposal. In addition to working in small groups with an experienced grant writer, participants will also have the added bonus of receiving a personalized proposal review by the knowledge specialist prior to submission for a federal grant, as well as packaging a professional grant submission, grants management, and grants.gov.

Participants enrolling in this certificate must have advanced writing skills and previous experience in writing both state and foundation grant proposals. The following counts as acceptable experience: taking a previous college-level course or professional development course focusing on writing state and foundation grant proposals; having prior experience with a nonprofit organization writing grant proposals for state and foundation grants is also acceptable. This is a fast-paced and intensive course.

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Advanced Grant Development: Federal Proposals Certificate

The ASU Lodestar Center is a GPCI Accepted Education Provider. Full participation in each program is applicable for 3 points in Category 1 - Education.

Are you looking for a certificate to help you better manage your organization's marketing needs and social media strategy? If so, the Nonprofit Marketing and Strategic Communications Certificate is for you.

This is a program of distinction for individuals who wish to gain additional knowledge and skills in marketing, communication, public relations and social media within the nonprofit sector. Course content is sharply focused to  include the most relevant topics needed to lead and manage marketing and communication strategies for nonprofit organizations and offers the individual a deeply engaging and robust experience.

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Nonprofit Marketing and Strategic Communications Certificate

Are you looking for a certificate to help you better manage your nonprofit and your day-to-day operations? If so, the Nonprofit Operations and Program Impact Certificate is for you.

The Nonprofit Operations and Program Impact Certificate is a certificate of distinction for individuals who wish to gain additional knowledge and skills in operational leadership, program impact and evaluation, developing volunteers, purposeful communication and more! Course content includes the most highly relevant topics needed to manage the operations of a nonprofit organization, as well as how to design, launch and evaluate effective programs that matter to the community.

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Nonprofit Operations and Program Impact Certificate

This is a certificate of distinction for individuals seeking knowledge and skills in nonprofit human resources, volunteer management, change management and conflict resolution. Course content includes:

• Complying with federal and state employment laws and compensation systems
• Recruiting, managing, motivating and rewarding both staff and volunteers in order to effectively utilize their strengths
• Effectively lead and champion change within an organization
• Developing strategies to overcome internal and external conflict

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Optimizing Human Resource Strategies in Nonprofits Certificate

Measure what matters. Proving the success of your programs is critically important today, and anecdotal stories aren’t enough. The Social Impact Measurement Certificate is designed for individuals who want to lead their organization’s efforts in evaluating or tracking the performance of their programs. It will help you understand how social impact measurement fits into your management structure, design an evaluation, learn to collect data to tell your organization’s story, and analyze and use the information you collect.

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Social Impact Measurement Certificate

This program is specially designed to meet the needs of communities of faith. Courses will provide engaging, practice-oriented learning experiences that are focused on knowledge, skills and techniques that can immediately be implemented in your faith-based organization. Best Skills Best Churches will provide you with an unparalleled opportunity to develop and enhance your leadership and management skills in order to best serve your faith community.

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Best Skills Best Churches Nonprofit Management Certificate