PUBPOL 5413

Strategic Nonprofit Management for Executives

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Designed for Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) students, this course provides a practitioner's focus on financial, managerial, and leadership issues in the non-profit sector, including universities, hospitals, environmental groups, government agencies, and foundations. The course will include an overview of non-profit financial statements, financial ratios, debt issuance, endowment management, credit analysis, tax issues, organizational governance issues, mergers & alliances, and industry-sector trends.

Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) students.

Distribution Requirements (D-HE, KCM-HE, SBA-HE)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SU, 2024SU, 2023SU, 2022SU

Learning Outcomes

• Students will apply tools for evaluating financial statements in the nonprofit sector.
• Students will evaluate debt financing as a financial management strategy, including how debt financing impacts financial flexibility, financing techniques, bond ratings, and coverage ratios.
• Students will evaluate frameworks for nonprofit management, including frameworks for risk management, auditing, conflict of interest, organizational governance, and partnership/alliance-building.
• Students will draft three short, analytical papers on interpreting financial ratios for a college, analyzing a budget for a hospital, and recommending a merger of several nonprofits.

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