Nonprofit Leadership Curriculum

Students who take the Master of Nonprofit Leadership degree program on a full-time basis can complete their degree in 13 months. Plan your course of study with the schedule below.

Students may also pursue their degree on a part-time basis. Depending on your personal goals, the curriculum can be completed within a two or three year program of study. Please contact mnl@pacificu.edu for a customized schedule. All courses in the full schedule (13 month) program are required and are offered once a year. For example, if you take one course in the fall semester, you will take the other course the following fall.

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January Residency I
NL 501 Personal Leadership Development Leaders who know more about themselves, the better skilled they are at developing & leading others. Understanding ourselves helps us understand others and our preferences for communication, decision-making, and approaching our daily lives. Critical Perspectives of Nonprofits as Public Benefit Corporations: Nonprofits are faced with dynamic challenges and opportunities to remain viable and relevant to their missions and communities. Nonprofits as businesses are different from a for-profit entity. Discover best practices and changes that should be adopted from the other sectors to remain sustainable. Decision-making: Leaders make decisions based on multiple variables, criteria, and situations. Leaders must be adaptable while assessing opportunities and risks, using values-based judgments, and inclusive processes. Operational Excellence: Skills for maintaining excellence; setting standards; project management; reports and accountability; etc.	2 credits
NL 504 Nonprofit Organizations This colloquium is designed for those wishing to gain both a broad and in-depth academic and practical applications with the nonprofit profession without choosing either the Rural or Environmental specialization. Colloquium introduces and integrates unique challenges with best practices through seasoned practitioners, consultants and donors.	2 credits

January Residency I

NL 501 Personal Leadership Development
Leaders who know more about themselves, the better skilled they are at developing & leading others.

Understanding ourselves helps us understand others and our preferences for communication, decision-making, and approaching our daily lives.

Critical Perspectives of Nonprofits as Public Benefit Corporations: Nonprofits are faced with dynamic challenges and opportunities to remain viable and relevant to their missions and communities. Nonprofits as businesses are different from a for-profit entity. Discover best practices and changes that should be adopted from the other sectors to remain sustainable.
Decision-making: Leaders make decisions based on multiple variables, criteria, and situations. Leaders must be adaptable while assessing opportunities and risks, using values-based judgments, and inclusive processes.
Operational Excellence: Skills for maintaining excellence; setting standards; project management; reports and accountability; etc.

2 credits

NL 504 Nonprofit Organizations
This colloquium is designed for those wishing to gain both a broad and in-depth academic and practical applications with the nonprofit profession without choosing either the Rural or Environmental specialization. Colloquium introduces and integrates unique challenges with best practices through seasoned practitioners, consultants and donors.

2 credits

Spring
January to March
NL 554 Board Governance as Collaborative Leadership	2 credits
NL 532 Developing the Capacity of People	2 credits
March to May
NL 552 Building Collaborations and Partnerships	2 credits
NL 533 Managing People	2 credits

Summer
Term 1 (May to June)
NL 600 Field Placement/Projects in Action	2 credits
Term 2 (June to July)
NL 550 Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement	2 credits
NL 510 Fiscal Management & Budgeting	2 credits
Term 3 (July to August)
NL 520 Resource Development Strategies	2 credits
NL 555 Special Topics: Nonprofit Organizations	2 credits

Fall
August to October
NL 540 Managing Meetings & Projects	2 credits
NL 556 Program Innovation & Design	2 credits
October to December
NL 530 Developing a Strategy-Based Culture	2 credits
NL 558 Impact & Iteration: Building a Culture of Learning	2 credits

January Residency II
NL 601 Leading Nonprofit Organizations Leadership is never just about oneself; rather it focuses on developing a culture of team, building capacity of others, and practicing systems thinking.	2 credits
NL 602 Project in Action: Presentation and Critical Perspectives in Nonprofits Dynamics of Community Change: Every nonprofit leader needs to understand the dynamics of human and community change to be effective in their mission and service with the community. This SESSION explores the research and principles about what makes people, and groups of people, make progress on the areas that are important to them to promote durable, meaningful, transformational change. Building and Sustaining a Movement: The challenges of culture and system change requires leaders of nonprofits not only to manage their own organizations, but to engage with the broader issues that resonates with the hearts and minds of communities.	2 credits

January Residency II

NL 601 Leading Nonprofit Organizations
Leadership is never just about oneself; rather it focuses on developing a culture of team, building capacity of others, and practicing systems thinking.

2 credits

NL 602 Project in Action: Presentation and Critical Perspectives in Nonprofits

Dynamics of Community Change: Every nonprofit leader needs to understand the dynamics of human and community change to be effective in their mission and service with the community. This SESSION explores the research and principles about what makes people, and groups of people, make progress on the areas that are important to them to promote durable, meaningful, transformational change.
Building and Sustaining a Movement: The challenges of culture and system change requires leaders of nonprofits not only to manage their own organizations, but to engage with the broader issues that resonates with the hearts and minds of communities.

2 credits

Amy Tracewell, MNL | Director
503-352-1558
amy.tracewell@pacificu.edu

Justin McRobert | Admissions Counselor, Nonprofit Leadership Program
MNL@contact.pacificu.edu

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