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Urban Ministry: Understanding the City - Bryce Moyer, Global Mission Expert
The course will present ways to interpret and define the city. It will combine theology and sociology and explore how we practice mission in the midst of the urban reality of where and how people live The city’s complexity can be overwhelming and this session will assist the participants in wrestling with the urban worldview and the various urban systems.

Build Teams that Lead, Innovate & Succeed - Sung Kwon, Executive Director NAD Adventist Community Services
Participants will explore team-based strategies for implanting change, addressing risk and the possibility of failure. This course also addresses the complex challenges that emerge in building non-cohesive teams and organizations that integrate diversity for positive results.

Risk Management Challenges for Nonprofits - Arthur Blinci, Vice President of Adventist Risk Management
This course will review the fundamentals of risk management and insurance strategies needed in a nonprofit organization. Participants will learn to develop the skills needed for implementing an effective approach to analyzing and managing risks in the workplace and during outreach activities in their communities.

Nonprofit Legal Issues and Conflict Resolution - Karnik Doukmetizian, General Counsel of the Office of General Counsel
This course is designed to address the legal fundamentals nonprofi ts will face in the workplace, with particular emphasis on using volunteers and management relations with employees. Participants will learn tactics and skills needed in contract negotiation and confl ict resolution and the potential liabilities which can impact your nonprofit operation.

Nonprofit Accounting and Budgeting - Dowell Chow, Vice President for Finance of Adventist World Radio
This course will provide an introduction to the underlying concepts, language and reporting methods for accounting and financial analysis. It will focus on interpreting and utilizing accounting and financial statements for effective business management. Other topics to be covered include proper methods for budgeting, managing financial resources and working with accountants and financial analysts to achieve organizational goals.

Introduction to Grant Proposal Writing - Lilya Wagner, Director NAD Philanthropic Service for Institutions (PSI)
This course will provide a brief overview of the proposal writing process. Participants will receive an overview of common grant components, and learn to avoid the common mistakes of many first time grant-writers. Prospect research, relationship building, and follow-up will also be discussed. In addition, participants will learn how to build a long-term commitment to philanthropy and systematic fund-raising program.

Ethics, Principles and Issues in Nonprofit Leadership - Zdravko Plantak, Professor of Washington Adventist University
This course will explore the ethical and moral responsibilities of leadership. Participants will study the moral obligations of leaders and followers and how leaders shape the moral environment of institutions and other formal and informal organizations. This course will also address the public and private morality of leaders as well as how leaders convey values through language, symbolic actions and as role models.

Strategic Planning in the Nonprofits - Sung Kwon, Director NAD Adventist Community Services
Creating a meaningful strategic plan is crucial to helping organizations survive the increasingly intense competition that every organization faces for funding, volunteers and public support. This course will teach the role of strategic planning in effective fundraising, what makes planning strategic, factors that indicate readiness for strategic planning, the respective roles of board and staff in planning, the basic components of a strategic planning process, the critical importance of stakeholder analyses, the purpose of mission and vision statements, and the differences between goals, strategies and objectives.

Communication/Media Management and Campaigns for Nonprofits - George Johnson, Assistant Director NAD Communitcation
This course will teach how to develop strategies for using multimedia for effective communication with the organization’s publics, with special focus on the Internet and the World Wide Web. It will also review how to develop objectives, strategies, tactics and messages for marketing, public relations and advertising campaigns.

Environment of the Nonprofit Sector - Gaspar Colon, Professor Washington Adventist University
The environment of nonprofit organizations has become increasingly complex. Interrelationships among different nonprofit organizations are evolving rapidly with alliances, joint ventures, and mergers becoming increasingly frequent. The complex and dynamic interactions within these nonprofit coalitions and the business and government sectors will be the focus of this course.