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Nonprofit Management and Grant Writing

Learn Nonprofit Management and effective grant writing

Develop essential skills to become an important part of one of the fastest growing service sectors. This suite of courses will help you learn to better compete for members, media attention, donors, clients, and volunteers. It will also teach you how to prepare grant proposals that yield positive results.

  • Gain a comprehensive introduction to nonprofit management
  • Learn powerful marketing techniques to further your organization’s goals
  • Get guidance on how to write effective grant proposals

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Course highlights Learn More

  • Flexible online learning
  • 96 Course Hours
  • Earn a Certificate of Completion

What you'll learn Learn More

  • The fundamentals of nonprofit management
  • Marketing techniques that increase customers, donors, members, or volunteers
  • How to assemble, write and submit complete grant proposals

Learn more about Nonprofit Management and Grant Writing Suite

Yes. The gross domestic product (GDP) of total nonprofit organizations was $185.8 billion in 2020.This number represented 9.0% of Canada’s total GDP. While the entire Canadian real GDP declined following the global pandemic, the real GDP of nonprofit institutions declined only 1.7% while the real GDP of the overall Canadian economy declined by 4.8%. A recent report published by Statistics Canada also showed a promising increase of 1.2% in overall nonprofit employment.

Gaining a fundamental understanding of nonprofit management and successful grant writing techniques will prepare you for a career in the nonprofit sector. Whether you are looking to work for an existing nonprofit institution or start your own, comprehensive knowledge or nonprofit management, marketing, funding, attention, and volunteers is essential to your success in this field.

While there is no way to know for sure if your grant proposals will be successful, there are things you can do to improve your chances of received funds or supplies. You need to understand and use the appropriate format, efficiently gather information that will need to be supplied with your proposal, discover how to gain community support for your cause, and learn the criteria funders use to decide whether to accept or reject a proposal.