Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) announced on their news site that it will offer a new Master’s in Nonprofit Management degree to help meet the needs for trained talent in the nonprofit sector.
The program will require 18 months of study in such areas as Administration and Finance and Organization Sustainability. AULA is currently accepting program applications and expects to start its first classes for the new program in the fall.
According to the article, Susan Nero, Chair of Graduate Management Programs at AULA, said the MA in Nonprofit Management will prepare students for work as executive directors, financial administrators and development directors for nonprofit organizations. Working for a nonprofit organization enables professionals to spend their working time on a specific cause that they care about, whether it is to help a certain group of people, improve society as a whole or cure a disease.
And there are plenty of jobs in the nonprofit sector. “The nonprofit sector is the third largest labor force in the U.S., employing one in ten workers,” Nero said.
Nonprofits represent a large portion of the American economy and present plenty of career opportunities to properly trained professionals. There were a total of 1.6 million nonprofit organizations registered with the Internal Revenue Service in 2012, according to the The Nonprofit Almanac 2012. The majority of nonprofits are public charities, but there are also thousands of other types of nonprofits, including private foundations, chambers of commerce and civic leagues.
Nonprofit organizations are a major part of the economy in the United States, accounting for 6.6 percent of GDP as of March 2013.
Leaders who work in nonprofit organizations have many of the same duties as other management professionals, such as implementing strategies and leading teams to accomplish organizational goals. The course curriculum for the new Nonprofit Management degree was designed based on research data from an AULA survey of nonprofit professionals.
Its purpose is to train students in the leadership and managerial skills that are necessary to address the needs of nonprofits — problems these organizations are currently dealing with. David Norgard, an AULA faculty member in the new program, says that future nonprofit leaders need to have a “deep, working understanding” of how nonprofits function if they are going to help their organizations thrive.
The nonprofit sector represents a vast career opportunity for professionals who want to work for a particular cause. With extensive training programs such as the new master’s degree program in Nonprofit Management, students can gain the managerial skills they need to lead nonprofit institutions in the future.
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