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This six-week long, graduate-level Institute helps participants learn to adapt their skills and knowledge from their career and life experience and apply them in a nonprofit setting. The Institute provides participants with briefings on important environmental topics, orients them to the realities and cultural aspects of nonprofits and provides training for the specific role of community outreach coordinator in an environmental nonprofit organization. Each participant is matched with one of the organizations and serves in a professional role, unpaid, for between 250 to 400 hours.
There are four modules:
Nonprofit Management and Leadership includes: Behavioral Styles; Multigenerational Workplace; Transformational Leadership; Understanding the Structures of Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Government; Jim Collins' Good to Great in Social Sector; Building Volunteer Relationships; Cultural Competence; Cycles of Career Change; and Contracting for Your Services with the Nonprofit Partner. |
Environmental Issues includes: Best Approaches to Framing the Environmental Issues; Climate Change; Environmental Justice; Food Systems and the Environment; and Definitions of Sustainability. Through the technique of an Environment World Café, explore answers to the question of "What is the future of environmentalism?" |
Community Outreach Skill and Strategies This curriculum is based on a position description that was developed in consultation with our environmental partners (click here for position description) and includes Messaging; Media Contacts and How-to's; Outreach to Diverse Communities; Networking; Community Engagement; Community Assessment; and Relationship Building. |
Site Visits and Supervised Internship Participants visit four sites during two days of the Institute. During these visits participants meet the staff, see the physical space, engage in an active learning experience that is characteristic of what the nonprofit does and meet with the executive director. The site visits help participants learn the realities of nonprofits including resources, challenges and key elements that help nonprofits succeed.
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