Nonprofits are essential partners within our North Carolina communities. When nonprofit organizations have a strong foundation and manage themselves well, they can focus more wholly on the services and support they bring to our communities.
That is why the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits launched the Nonprofit Management Institute, a virtual learning cohort of nonprofit executives, managers, and board leaders to assess their organizations’ management practices, identify successes and challenges, build capacity where there are gaps, and work towards long-term sustainability.
Developed from ongoing nonprofit management research and the Center’s guide, Principles & Practices: Best Practices for North Carolina Nonprofits, this 6-session series facilitates learning, discussion, and fundamental management strategies around board governance, program design and evaluation, strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, and human resources.
Participants who complete the series and graduate with a Nonprofit Management Institute certificate may apply the 15 (fifteen) hours earned towards the Duke Certificate in Nonprofit Management for an additional fee. Note: The hours required to complete the Duke Certificate in Nonprofit Management is 72 (seventy-two). Contact mary.sherk@duke.edu for more information.
We appreciate our partnership with the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium that brought about the transition of this program from the Consortium to the Center to expand the content and open the opportunity to nonprofits all across the state.
Center-Hosted EventAbout the Facilitator
Dr. Pamela Palmer has over 25 years of experience providing capacity-building support to nonprofit organizations as an educator, facilitator, consultant, and coach. She has collaborated with the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits and Guilford Nonprofit Consortium to conceptualize and design curricula for the Nonprofit Management Institute. She has served in various roles related to leadership and management of nonprofit organizations and has consulted in the areas of capacity building, nonprofit start-up and management, program development and management, strategic planning, organizational development, staff development, program evaluation, and community development. She was previously an instructor and assistant professor of nonprofit leadership and management at High Point University. She is one of the founders and current executive director of the Guilford County Resource and Referral Center. Dr. Palmer has a Ph.D. in leadership studies and a Master of Science in human resource counseling from North Carolina A&T State University, and an undergraduate degree in business administration from Winston-Salem State University.