Doctor of Management - Non Profit Leadership
The Doctor of Management with a concentration in Nonprofit Leadership is a 100-credit-hour terminal degree in management. The program includes 40 credit hours of core management courses, 20 credit hours devoted to the nonprofit leadership concentration, 4 credit hours of symposium-related courses, and 36 credit hours of doctoral research courses. The research element will culminate in a dissertation.
The Doctor of Management is a terminal degree for management professionals. The program helps students prepare to think and act strategically and provides the opportunity to enhance their abilities to make positive contributions in their chosen area of management expertise. The concentration in nonprofit leadership focuses on leadership, fundraising, fiscal administration, marketing, and research related to nonprofit organizations. The program exposes students to the importance of fund development and program evaluation for the nonprofit sector, including issues such as grant writing, program evaluation, community development, resource-generation, and development of donor champions.
The nonprofit leadership concentration is uniquely designed to focus on management and leadership tools and issues that impact nonprofit organizations. The program is designed to provide a broad foundational base in overall management practices along with the analytical knowledge to develop sustaining solutions for nonprofit organizations. This concentration requires students to think creatively and across functional organization boundaries to analyze issues and develop solutions within the nonprofit sector.
Doctor of Management Outcomes
- Demonstrate fluency within the chosen discipline and demonstrate the ability to support business strategy and organizational missions in changing environments
- Develop synthesis proficiencies for strategic planning and solution generation in the context of internal and external managerial responsibilities
- Integrate theories, models, skills, and competencies in support of organizational missions
Nonprofit Leadership Concentration Outcomes
- Design plans to establish nonprofit strategic vision and objectives
- Apply leadership theories and management principles to direct and accomplish nonprofit organizational goals and objectives
- Evaluate the internal and external environments and make HR, finance, and strategic decisions to ensure nonprofit organizational goals are being accomplished
- Demonstrate fluency in fundraising, fiscal administration, marketing, and research related to nonprofit organizations
- Translate management theory into use within practical applications in a nonprofit environment
- Evaluate existing research to guide management toward best practices in nonprofit organizations
- Lead and influence best practices to guide strategic decision-making, and create and sustain successful nonprofit organizations
Degree Requirements
Courses- Concentration
| NPL870 | Nonprofit Leadership and Management | 4 |
| NPL872 | Nonprofit Philanthropy and Grant Writing | 4 |
| NPL874 | Public Administration, Advocacy, and Regulation | 4 |
| NPL876 | Special Topics in Non Profit Leadership | 4 |
| MGMT878 | Advanced Career Strategies for the Scholar-Practitioner | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 20 |
Courses - Core
| MGMT802 | Management Theory | 4 |
| MGMT808 | Management and Ethics | 4 |
| MGMT818 | Leadership Theory and Development | 4 |
| MGMT822 | Application of Action Research | 4 |
| MGMT824 | Strategic Thinking and Organizational Alignment | 4 |
| MGMT828 | Practice and Theory of Consulting and Intervention | 4 |
| MGMT832 | Organization Innovation and Scenario Thinking | 4 |
| RES804 | Principles of Research Methods and Design | 4 |
| RES812 | Qualitative Research Methods | 4 |
| RES814 | Quantitative Research Methods | 4 |
| RES860 | Doctoral Research I: Principles of Research and Writing | 4 |
| RES861 | Doctoral Research II: Annotated Bibliography | 4 |
| RES862 | Dissertation Research Process | 4 |
| RES863 | Doctoral Research III: Dissertation Literature Review | 4 |
| RES864 | Doctoral Research IV: Dissertation Methods | 4 |
| RES865 | Doctoral Research V: Dissertation Introduction | 4 |
| RES866 | Doctoral Research VI: Dissertation Findings | 4 |
| RES867 | Doctoral Research VII: Dissertation Discussion and Conclusion | 4 |
| RES868 | Doctoral Research VIII: Dissertation Conclusion | 4 |
| SYMP801 | Doctoral Symposium I | 2 |
| SYMP802 | Doctoral Symposium II | 2 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 80 |
Total Credit Hours: 100
Program Areas of Focus
The program emphasizes three areas of focus: Research and Writing; Leadership and Change Management; and the specific concentration discipline.
Graduation Requirements
In addition to the successful completion of 100 credit hours with an acceptable GPA, students must also satisfactorily complete their research proposal and final dissertation. The research proposal must be approved by the student’s Research Supervisor and University Reviewer. The dissertation, which must be approved by the student’s dissertation committee, is an extensive document that includes the research study. In addition, graduation requires presentation of the final dissertation.
Symposium
Doctoral programs at Colorado Technical University require a residential symposium. Additional information about CTU's doctoral symposium can be located in the Doctoral Symposium section of this catalog.
Program Accreditations and Alignments
The program was developed to align with the nonprofit leadership and management competencies of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.
Locations
- Aurora (Denver Area)
- Virtual Campus