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.
* “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.