Online Nonprofit Management Master’s Degree

This program is designed for the adult professional learner and offers flexibility so students can maintain their current careers while earning an advanced degree. Bringing real-life situations to the classroom greatly enhances student learning.

• Online delivery of the program provides flexibility while allowing students to work at a pace that fits their life stage.
• As students complete various grouping of courses, certificates will be offered demonstrating the new skills developed.
• Students can progress through the program in a cohort-based model providing a collegial community with other Christians serving in the similar positions.
• The program is designed to provide a very practical view to Nonprofit Management including strategic leadership, ethics, fundraising, potential legal pitfalls and practical operations, all presented to the student within a biblical worldview.
• Leadership and management courses are presented to assist the student to learn how to manage upward and downward in an organization.
• A particular emphasis will be placed on the overall purpose of the organization, understanding the importance of a constitution and bylaws along with various board structures that will enable the student to launch their own nonprofit if that is their desire.

The nonprofit space provides many opportunities for graduates who have the skills, capacities and qualifications to help lead organizations. Churches are also in need of credentialed and trained leaders to help develop and lead ministries. Graduates from our programs will see opportunities in careers such as fundraising, volunteer and executive leadership, program coordination, financial controllers, operations leaders and more.

This program is designed to enhance the abilities of the students. As a result of this course of study, the student will explore the following:

• Biblical Leadership: Integrate a biblical foundation of leadership starting with personal spiritual formation and transitioning to a broader organizational level of leadership principles and practices.
• Knowledge: Demonstrate comprehension of content knowledge and concepts, practices and skills specific to the Bible and the functional areas of business. Students will apply key business disciplines with an emphasis on critical thinking. Skills pursued throughout this degree include strategic leadership, financial decision making, avoiding potential legal pitfalls and marketing strategies.
• Critical Thinking: Exhibit competency of using creative thinking to synthesize ideas and apply analytical and problem-solving skills to take appropriate risks in developing innovative and practical approaches to various challenges.
• Communication: Demonstrate clear and effective communication skills in all written and oral communications. Students will create long-term communication messaging strategies, with clarity and coherence in written and spoken forms.
• Practical Study: Develop skills through hands-on experiential learning will be used to develop marketing strategies and then create tactical plans, execute the plan on a timeline and planned schedule, and assess the effectiveness of those plans.
• Ethical Practices: Confirm character by developing appropriate responses when confronted with moral and ethical dilemmas through the integration of a biblical worldview to personal and professional situations.