MOL 534 - Program Management, Design, and Evaluation Course unit(s): 1
Across the range of nonprofit services, nonprofit organizations offer program activities to achieve their missions. Across all nonprofit service areas, leaders share the challenge of designing activities and methods of evaluating their success. This course addresses common themes of program design including needs assessment, articulating a theory of change, a logic model that links resources to impact through activities, outputs and outcomes. Program design includes planning for staff, volunteers, and capital. Program results may be evaluated with experimental and quasi-experimental methods. Leaders’ abilities in these areas help at all stages of nonprofit development from the earliest idea to the routine programmatic reporting.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Explore methods for assessing community and population assets and needs
- Articulate a theory of change for how nonprofit action can address the need
- Design a program of nonprofit action to respond to the need
- Analyze program results using appropriate methods
- Customize leadership learning to specific and general nonprofit service contexts
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