Certificate Courses:
Professional Development

Nonprofit Management Certificate Course

16-week course in which participants learn how to handle the key management challenges facing nonprofit organizations: planning strategically, using computers, controlling finances, developing human resources, fostering leadership, lobbying and advocacy, designing and evaluating programs, and marketing and fundraising. Next Offering: Spring 2008.

Advanced Nonprofit Management Certificate Courses

A rigorous training program for professionals who have held senior management positions for more than five years. These courses will provide advanced training on partnerships and collaborations, accountability and evaluation, resource development, legal issues, and human resources management.

Community Development Certificate Course

This fall semester course meets every other weekend, beginning September 2005, and provides professional development training for administrators, staff, board directors and founders of urban and rural Community Development Corporations, Community-Based Development Organizations, neighborhood planning councils, banks and financial institutions, and public agencies in organizational capacity building, leadership development, community organizing, project planning, and financial packaging in Community-Based Economic Development.

Brownfields Redevelopment and Environmental Justice Certificate Course

This 1-week certificate course is designed to engage public, private and community stakeholders in obtaining knowledge and developing skills needed to address the major aspects of redeveloping Brownfields, and other contaminated sites, in ways that insure comprehensive and inclusive economic and community development planning that benefits those negatively affected by blighted and contaminated land and buildings as well as the broader public. The sustainable reuse of Brownfield sites is the new planning answer to the issues of urban and rural revitalization, an antidote to sprawl, and the re-creation of viable, healthy, communities. The course is designed to provide professional development training to community leaders, CDCs, private developers, state and local public agency regulators, environmentalists, banks and financial institutions, attorneys and realtors in understanding current issues, policies, and laws that facilitate, encourage and deter the clean-up/remediation, community involvement, and cost of developing Brownfields.

Faith-Based Community Development Certificate Course

This one-week certification course provides professional development training for religious and faith leaders, laypersons, public and private sector decision-makers, bankers and financial managers in Faith-Based Community Economic Development. Religious and faith leaders from churches, mosques, and synagogues interested in planning and implementing commercial real estate development, employment training, housing development, child care, work force development training, or business development enterprise will gain knowledge and skills to successfully address these areas, engage in effective Community Building activities, and understand how to build sustainable community development organizations where appropriate.