PUA 6304: Local Government

Objectives

1. Define nonprofit organizations roles and responsibilities in a democratic local government environment.
2. Design and articulate an effective communications strategy based on the readings that conveys the nonprofit mission to specific internal and external audiences.
3. Recognize and discuss local government (municipal, county, and city) relationships that are complementary, supplementary or adversarial.
4. Recognize and discuss ways to effectively use technology systems, e-learning, e-training, to strengthen relationships with government administration at the federal, state and local levels.
5. Recognize the challenges of advocating for grants-in-aid, fee-for-service and eligibility service models, and effect on relationship building with local governments.
6. Examine the financial tax policies, social, economic regulation, and political constraints affecting nonprofits and proposed strategies for successful implementation of the service mission.
7. Identify the complexities of contracting, and collaborating with local governments and small businesses and implications on career options and planning.
8. Synthesize and summarize knowledge across the readings, real-world exercises and library research useful to career planning in the nonprofit sector.

PreRequisites

None

Textbook(s)

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