Published on Friday, November 06, 2009
The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management now offers a Concentration in Nonprofit Management. The Concentration in Nonprofit Management is designed to help students develop the skills to more effectively manage and lead both local and global nonprofit organizations.
The Nonprofit Management Concentration focuses on the business aspects of managing the nonprofit enterprise, including the marketing, fundraising, financing and accounting necessary for sustaining growth and creating change within the nonprofit sector. Students will build skills in the following areas: organizational, board and financial governance; management and administration; leadership; legal and intellectual property issues; organizational development; organizational design; and entrepreneurial issues including marketing and plan development.
This new area of emphasis has been developed in response to student and industry demand. The courses included in this concentration emphasize the relevance of the nonprofit sector in today’s economy and the importance of building a foundational understanding of how it operates for the public good on a local, national and international basis.
The Nonprofit Management Concentration consists of 12 units in the MBA program and 8 units in the EMBA program. Initial courses offered in this concentration area are the following:
The new Nonprofit Management Concentration will emphasize “knowledge relevant to critical issues affecting management practice” for nonprofits. This is in keeping with both Peter Drucker’s work in the nonprofit sector as well as the current research interests of many of the faculty at the Drucker School and CGU.
The Nonprofit Management Concentration is available in the following programs:
MBA
MA in Arts Management
EMBA
MA in Management
Please visit our Nonprofit Management page for additional informaiton. Other concentrations offered at the Drucker School are Strategy, Finance, Leadership and Global Management.
