CPS - 008 - Nonprofit Organization Assessment 2.0 Certification
Course Description
Nonprofit Organization Assessment 2.0 Certification
This fall, The Nonprofit Management Fund and Portland State University are partnering to offer a 4-month certification in nonprofit organization assessment.
You won’t just LEARN about organization assessment, you will DO organization assessment.
Program Details & Information
- 4 half-day workshops
- Personalized one-on-one coaching sessions between select workshops
- Guides and materials included
- Taught by skilled consultants
- Participants awarded Nonprofit Organization Assessment certification
Program Cost
- $3,000
Program Dates
- January 2022 through April 2022
What You Cover
Is this program right for you?
This hands-on learning opportunity utilizes an equitable framework to help nonprofit consultants develop skills for organizational assessment with diverse nonprofit communities, while working on a real assessment project. This program is right for you if you are:
- seeking to enhance your organization assessment skills,
- participate in a learning community with peers, and
- add a new service to your consulting repertoire.
How You Benefit
By the end of the program, consultants will be able to:
- Operate as an assessor consultant with a generalist skill set for OA2 assessment of the following 10 areas:
- Governance and Structure
- Leadership and Organizational Culture
- Organizational Planning and Strategy
- Accountability and Transparency
- Financial Health
- Fiscal Management & Resource Development
- Communications
- Program & Services: Planning, Administration and Evaluation
- Advocacy and Lobbying
- Interview, analyze key nonprofit organizational documents, conduct online surveys, apply schema charting, assemble information from multiple sources into an empowering report checklist.
Program Background
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ASSESSMENT INITIATIVE 2.0
WHO ARE WE?
We are a Milwaukee-Portland collaboration of experienced funders, practitioners, and academics specializing in nonprofit management. The Partners include The Nonprofit Management Fund, Management Cornerstones, Murn & Associates LLC, and Portland State University’s Institute for Nonprofit Management, with support from the Marquette University Trinity Fellows.
WHAT IS OUR GOAL?
To advance the practice of organizational assessment for the purpose of empowering nonprofits to understand their organizational strengths and challenges and, through the assessment, create practical strategies for organizational advancement. Further, our goal is to offer the funding community a credible means of viewing the organization’s needs beyond program funding requests.