Master of Nonprofit Organizations

The Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO or MNPO), Master of Nonprofit Management (MNM), Master of Not-for-Profit Leadership (MNPL), Master of Nonprofit Studies (MNpS), Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Philanthropic Studies and similarly named degrees offer graduate-level training in management and leadership in the nonprofit sector.

As evidenced by the lack of a uniform name, degrees in nonprofit management are a relatively new phenomenon. While some universities have established centers for nonprofit studies, such as the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University, the Institute for Nonprofit Organizations at the University of Georgia, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation at Arizona State University, most nonprofit management programs are within schools of social work, public administration, or management. However, as the field has grown, there are increasing numbers of free-standing graduate and undergraduate programs not bound within traditional disciplines. The Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC) has developed curricular guidelines for degree programs in the nonprofit and philanthropic studies field that has helped to guide many universities in the development of their degree and certificate programs.

Curriculum

A typical nonprofit Master's program would require coursework in most or all of the following subjects:

• Strategic Planning, Organizational Development, and/or Nonprofit Finance
• Fundraising
• Ethics
• Program Evaluation
• Human Resource Development and/or Volunteer Management
• Nonprofit Law

Program structures include traditional resident graduate programs, part-time programs for working professionals, and correspondence or online programs. In addition, many universities offering Master's degrees also offer graduate certificates for students pursuing a graduate degree in another discipline.

Institutions Offering Master's Degrees in Nonprofit Organizations

• All Hallows College in collaboration with School of Public Service, DePaul University
• American International College
• Arizona State University
• Bay Path College
• Capella University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Cleveland State University
• College of Notre Dame of Maryland
• School of Public Service, DePaul University
• Eastern University
• Florida Atlantic University
• Hamline University
• Indiana University
• John Carroll University
• Louisiana State University in Shreveport
• Mid America Nazarene University
• The New School
• Northeastern University
• Oklahoma City University
• Oral Roberts University Graduate School of Business
• Regis University
• Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
• Seattle University
• University of Central Florida
• University of Delaware School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy
• University of Georgia
• University of Northern Iowa
• University of Notre Dame
• University of San Diego
• University of San Francisco
• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Worcester State College
• Rutgers School of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management http://www.spaa.newark.rutgers.edu
• University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück
• University of Sacred Heart in Puerto Rico /http://graduado.sagrado.edu/secuencial_OSL.htm
• Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg, Germany

External links

• John Carroll University Nonprofit Administration Masters Programs
• Oklahoma City University Masters of Arts in Applied Sociology - Nonprofit Leadership
• Nonprofit Management Education Programs in the United States
• Master of Nonprofit Management, School of Public Service, DePaul University, Chicago
• Nonprofit Management & Goverance, Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg University, Germany