PADM 5413 - Strategic Nonprofit Management

(HD-HE, KCM-HE, SBA-HE)

Summer. 1.5 credits. Letter grades only.

Enrollment limited to: EMPA students.

J. Grasso.

Designed for Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) students, this course provides a practitioner’s focus on financial, managerial, and leadership issues in the non-profit sector, including universities, hospitals, environmental groups, government agencies, and foundations. The course will include an overview of non-profit financial statements, financial ratios, debt issuance, endowment management, credit analysis, tax issues, organizational governance issues, mergers & alliances, and industry-sector trends.

Outcome 1: Students will apply tools for evaluating financial statements in the nonprofit sector.

Outcome 2: Students will evaluate debt financing as a financial management strategy, including how debt financing impacts financial flexibility, financing techniques, bond ratings, and coverage ratios.

Outcome 3: Students will evaluate frameworks for nonprofit management, including frameworks for risk management, auditing, conflict of interest, organizational governance, and partnership/alliance-building.

Outcome 4: Students will draft three short, analytical papers on interpreting financial ratios for a college, analyzing a budget for a hospital, and recommending a merger of several nonprofits.