- Social Work

The CHHS & BUS minor degree program in Nonprofit Management provides students with an opportunity to gain the knowledge and professional skills needed to effectively lead and manage within the community-based nonprofit organization sector (organizations that are neither for-profit businesses nor governmental agencies). This program's aim is to develop better and more informed managers in order to improve service delivery, promote more cost-effective service, make better use of increasingly scarce resources, and strengthen the ability of community organizations to achieve their missions.

The Nonprofit Management minor complements the curriculum of CHHS, BUS, and other majors across campus by providing knowledge and skills needed to effectively lead and manage within the community-based nonprofit organization sector, focusing on organizational, operational, and regulatory aspects of accounting, contract management, finance and staff leadership that are unique to nonprofit organizations.

Learning Outcomes (LOs) for the Nonprofit Management Minor

The following CHHS and ESTP LOs represent the knowledge, skills and abilities students are expected to master to successfully complete the minor.

Collaborative Health & Human Services Learning Outcomes:

CHHS LO 1 - Collaboration
Ability to work in teams in interprofessional settings across traditional lines of programs, agencies, disciplines, and diverse communities to establish and achieve common missions and purpsoes and to collaborate with others in decision making, learning, completing tasks and applying knowledge of group process and group interaction.

CHHS LO 2 - Financial Management
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of financial management of public agencies and nonprofit organizations, including accounting for donor intent, grant proposal writing, adherence to regulations and contract obligations, and audit requirements

CHHS LO 3 - Leadership
Ability to understand and begint o master the ability to motivate others by promoting a shared vision and the skills necessary to set clear direction for collaborative implementation and sustained change in interprofessional settings and diverse communities

CHHS LO 4 - Systems Management
Ability to demonstrate an understanding of and begin to develop the skills necessary to manage complex systems of health & human service delivery

CHHS LO 5 - Professional Communication
Ability to develop and maintain a flow of inforamtion between sender(s) and receiver(s) through use of critical listening skills and oral and written communication; ability to communicate both basic and complex ideas to a variety of groups; demonstrate an appreciation of the organizational and cultural contexts within which the communication will occur; and can conduct professional quality oral and electronic presentations

Business Learning Outcomes:

BUS LO 1 - Leadership and Management
Ability to contribute to organizational effectiveness; manage innovation and change; exercise leadership effectively and ethically; inspire, motivate and empower others; and use time and other personal assets productively.

BUS LO 2 - Marketing
Ability to analyze markets, environments and their associated trends and competition; develop and use marketing information systems (customer/consumer research via traditional and Internet methods); and produce a marketing plan from a holistic perspective, i.e., a socially responsible view of all the organization's stakeholders,

BUS LO 3 - Finance
Ability to prepare and analyze financial statements and projectiosn, analyze a proposed project or investment, identify and evaluate sources of financing, and understand accounting and financial reporting from an ethical and strategic perspective.

BUS LO 4 - Operations Management
Ability to improve operational productivity of an enterprise, improve strategic decisions, and consistently deliver quality products and services which satisfy customer needs.

BUS LO 5 - Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship Skills and Attitudes
Ability to recognize and evaluate opportunities, envision and launch new initiatives, assess and continuously improve performance, and understand strategic and stakeholder management.

Courses and pathways for meeting the requirements of the minor

The Nonprofit Management minor program complements CSUMB’s CHHS and BUS majors by providing skills focusing on organizational, operational and regulatory aspects of accounting, contract management, finance and staff leadership that are unique to nonprofit organizations. There are three distinct pathways, depending on the student's Major, showing required courses.

Pathway # 1: BUS Majors (Total units required for BUS students = 12)

Collaborative Health & Human Services (CHHS) Courses

• CHHS 330 Collaborative Community Leadership, 4 units
  
  
• CHHS 430 Systems Management for Public & Nonprofit Organizations, 4 units
  
  
• CHHS 440 Financial Management for Public & Nonprofit Organizations, 4 units

Pathway # 2: CHHS Majors (Total units required for CHHS students = 12)

Business (BUS) Courses

• BUS 330 Human Resource Management, 4 units
  
  
• BUS 323 Service Marketing, 4 units
  
  
• BUS 433 Management of Nonprofit Organizations, 4 units
  
  

Pathway # 3: All other majors (Total units required for students in other majors = 16)

Business (BUS) and Collaborative Health & Human Services (CHHS) Courses

• BUS 330 Human Resource Management, 4 units
  
  
• CHHS 330 Collaborative Community Leadership, 4 units
  
  
• CHHS 440 Financial Management for Public & Nonprofit Organizations, 4 units
  
  
• BUS 433 Management of Nonprofit Organizations, 4 units

Faculty advisors

CHHS Faculty: Joy Rubey, Kim Judson

BUS Faculty: Marylou Shockley, Pat Tinsley