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The Portfolio option

The portfolio option allows student to receive the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance certificate in a more independent and less structured way. Students need to complete the three main areas listed below by using the work completed in their general education courses, major and minor courses, seminars attended and other activities.

Documentation materials generally used to show completion of requirements:

•  Course materials, projects, or an assignment completed in class that focuses on a specific competency area

•  Transcripts of grades received in a course you completed

•  Registration Form (or receipt) and the agenda from a workshop attended

•  Syllabi and grade (printed from emich.edu account) from a course completed

•  Letters from nonprofit professionals, professors, or workshop facilitators stating that you fulfilled a competency through service, course work, or attending a workshop.

Contact the Campus Director, Dr. Petrescu, if you feel that documentation you have that is not listed above, could suffice.

 

Area One: Foundation Competencies

Career Development and Exploration

  1. Attend a Career Service Center Workshop
  2. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  3. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  4. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Communication Skills

  1. Complete EMU General Studies Course
  2. CTAC 370 Nonprofit Org. Communication
  3. PLSC 334 Personal Admin. In Govt.
  4. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  5. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  6. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Employability Skills

  1. Attend NLA Resume Workshop AND Attend a Career Service Center workshop
  2. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  3. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  4. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Personal Attributes

  1. Two Letters of Recommendation from a Field-Based Experience or Internship supervisor describing your attributes/contributions
  2. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  3. Attend a Career Service Center Workshop
  4. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  5. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

 

Area Two: Professional Development Competencies

Nonprofit Management

  1. PLSC 435 Nonprofit Mgt & Leadership
  2. MGMT 386 Organization Behavior
  3. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  4. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  5. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Nonprofit Accounting & Financial Management

  1. ACC 246 Accounting for Public and NPO (or ACC 240 if 246 is not available)
  2. PLSC 352 Public Budgeting
  3. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  4. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  5. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Community Outreach/Marketing and Public Relations

  1. JRNL 408 Case Studies in PR
  2. JRNL 314 Writing for Public Relations
  3. MKTG 360 Principles of Marketing
  4. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  5. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  6. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Program Planning, Implementation and Evaluation

  1. PLSC 435 Nonprofit Mgt & Leadership
  2. RECR 469 Grant Writing in Recreation
  3. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  4. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  5. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Risk Management and Legal Issues

  1. LAW 393 Law of Business and NPO
  2. LAW 403 Employment Law
  3. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  4. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  5. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Historical and Philosophical Foundations

  1. PLSC 336 History and Phil Foundations
  2. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  3. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  4. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Youth and Adult Development

  1. Complete Elective Course in Human Development and Diversity
  2. EDPS 325 Life Span Human Growth and Development
  3. PSY 321/322 Child/Adolescence Psych
  4. SOCL 303 Sociology of Childhood and Youth
  5. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  6. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  7. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Board-Committee Development

  1. CTAC 370 Nonprofit Org. Communication
  2. PLSC 434 Intro to Board Development in NPO's
  3. PLSC 435 Nonprofit Mgt & Leadership
  4. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  5. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  6. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Fundraising Principles and Practices

  1. Organize Fundraising Event for NLAMI
  2. CTAC 370 Nonprofit Org. Communication
  3. RECR 469 Grant Writing in Recreation
  4. PLSC 436 Fundraising
  5. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  6. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  7. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Volunteer Management

  1. SWRK 470 Supervising Staff and Volunteers
  2. PLSC 435 Nonprofit Mgt & Leadership
  3. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  4. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  5. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Information Management and Technology

  1. Attend a Career Service Center Workshop
  2. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  3. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  4. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Ethics and Values

  1. PLSC 435 Nonprofit Mgt & Leadership
  2. PLSC 436 Fundraising
  3. PLSC 336 History and Phil Foundations
  4. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  5. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  6. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

Diversity Awareness

  1. SOCL 214 Racial and Cultural Minorities
  2. AAS 231 Urbanization & African Am. Com.
  3. AAS 351 Social Cont. of African Am. Heal.
  4. Attend NLAMI or MNA Workshop
  5. Internship or Mentorship Experience
  6. NLA Advisory Board Meeting/Workshop

 

Area Three: Other Requirements

Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Management Institute

o Date Attended: ___________________________________________


Active NLA Student Association Participation (two semesters are required)

o Semester 1 Dates:_________________________________________
o Semester 2 Dates:_________________________________________


Field-Based Experiences [300 hours at a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit]

o Internship Location & Dates: ________________________________


Portfolio Review and Certification Interview with Campus Director

o Date of Appointment: ______________________________________

Participate at Advisory Board Meetings

Participate in Mentorship Program (optional)

 

Competency related web sites

1. Career development & exploration

2. Communication Skills

3. Employability skills

4. Personal Attributes

5. Historical & philosophical development

6. Youth & adult development

7. Board-Committee development

8. Fundraising principles & practices

9. Human resources development & supervision

10. General nonprofit management

11. Accounting

12. Nonprofit marketing

13. Nonprofit program planning

14. Nonprofit risk management

 

Portfolio Powerpoint Presentation designed by NLA Advisory Board Member, Diane Hockett:

Link to: Portfolio Presentation 2009