Students Excel in Recent CAPSTONE RESEARCH PAPERS.

During the past two weeks a number of NMP and SFP students have been finishing up their final coursework and presenting their CAPSTONE RESEARCH PAPERS to faculty and classmates.  The topic of the these 30–page papers are chosen by students and the papers give them the opportunity to explore further a nonprofit topic covered in their coursework, or a topic related to their career advancement.  

This “crop” of papers including the following interesting topics:

*   “Best Practices” for using YouTube videos in nonprofit social media campaigns;
*   Improving one’s managerial effectiveness by using the profiles of different “generations” to anticipate how employees of different ages will perform in various work environments and how they will respond to different types and levels of supervision; 
*   Making the tax-deductibility of donations to a particular “house of worship” contingent upon that “house of worship” submitting a form 990 to the IRS;
*   Evaluating common practices among student phonathon programs; and An examination of how measurement can assist in achieving an optimal fund development strategy.

If you are particularly interested in reading any of these papers, please let me know.  I’ll speak to the author and try to have them posted on the website here.  This is a capacity of the website that we are developing. 

Lastly, the completion of these papers signified that another group of students will soon be graduating from the program. We hope that the social media effort we have started will serve to keep our growing number of alumni connected to us and to each other.  Let me know your ideas for how we can make these efforts more effective.