PACE NONCREDIT COURSE:
Social Entrepreneurship (Voucher Included)
Areas of Study
Course Type
Overview
Hours: 300 | Duration: 6 months
Ready to develop the skills and strategies to become a leader in the nonprofit sector while learning the fundamentals needed to launch your own business? In this course bundle, you will learn the most important aspects of nonprofits, including how to start a nonprofit and delve into the world of business, from generating an idea to writing a plan and much more.
The Nonprofit Manager course will teach you how to start a nonprofit, including the most important aspect—your mission and how to define that. You will also study governance and leadership issues, looking at the laws that regulate nonprofits and codes of conduct as you learn how to run a nonprofit further. From there, you will be looking at how best to manage your volunteer program. You will learn how to handle nonprofit finances and, critically, how to create a budget. This course will also teach you how to market and raise funds through fundraising and earned income. Lastly, you will understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion and how to achieve this within your organization.
In the Entrepreneurship: Start-Up and Business Owner Management course, you will refine your start-up idea as you prepare for the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Certification. You will learn all business areas of an entrepreneurship venture, such as legal structure and requirements, funding sources, intellectual property law, operations, marketing, advertising, and finances. By course completion, you will create a comprehensive business plan to get your start-up idea off the ground and into the market.
This course offers enrollment with a voucher. The voucher is prepaid access to sit for the Entrepreneurship and Small Business ESB Certification certifying exam upon eligibility.
Curriculum
- The Nonprofit Sector
- Defining Your Mission/Imagining Your Vision
- Governance and Leadership
- Volunteer Management
- Nonprofit Finance
- Fund Development
- Other Revenue Sources
- Other Revenue Sources
- Other Revenue Sources
- Human Resources
- Human Resources
- Change is The Only Constant
- Nonprofit Manager Final Exam
- The Entrepreneur
- Opportunity Recognition
- Starting Up
- Funding the Venture
- Ethics and Sustainability
- Human Capital
- Intellectual Property
- Operating Procedures
- Marketing
- Advertising
- Financial Statements
- Cash Flow Management
Course Requirements
Prerequisites: This course is intended for anyone interested in developing their enterprise management skills, whether you want to start your own business and nonprofit or understand how to operate an established business. You should have basic keyboarding and computer skills, be comfortable navigating the Internet and using e-mail, and have experience using a word-processing computer program (Microsoft Word is recommended). Requirements: Hardware Requirements: Software Requirements: Other: Instructional Material Requirements: The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment. The following textbooks will be shipped to you approximately 7-10 business days after enrollment in Nonprofit Manager : The following textbooks will be shipped to you approximately 7-10 business days after enrollment in Entrepreneurship: Start-Up and Business Owner Management: Please Note: You will receive a digital book if the physical book is on backorder.
