article thumbnail

Develop Your Skills: 5 Resources for Nonprofit Professionals

Achieve

Some will offer a certificate program, as either a way to test the market for a more expansive program later, or as a gateway into a full degree program. . All this said, academic certificate programs can vary widely. You take the classes, receive passing grades, and you get the certificate. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

article thumbnail

5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

Mary’s University of Minnesota. Up until then, some universities ventured into certificates, but there was nothing with real academic rigor. Mary’s University of Minnesota. It was the late 1980s and I was signing up for the first class in the first master’s program in philanthropy and development in the country, at St.