Nonprofit Business Builder

9 units · Undergraduate

Spring: 9 units Nonprofit Business Builder is an experiential learning course designed to teach students how to start and manage a nonprofit business. Students will develop a full business plan for starting their own nonprofit business, highlighting the following themes: articles of incorporation, creation of both bylaws and a conflict of interest policy, a full financial pro forma of opening and operating costs, and a marketing and communications plan. The course's experiential learning elements will teach students sales training techniques, which they will utilize in generating actual lead lists and cold-calling on potential donors/clients. Students in this course will also complete full grant applications for outside funding for the target nonprofit business.