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课程名称：非营利部门概论、非营利组织、非营利领导与治理 课程概述：本课程旨在介绍非营利部门及其组织，以及领导力和治理的概念。课程内容虽以北美文化为基础，但希望其他地区的学员也能找到适用的知识。 课程关键词：非营利、非营利部门、志愿部门、非营利组织、非政府组织、志愿者组织、领导力、管理、治理、董事会、董事会成员、绩效、有效性。 课程安排： 第一周：探讨的主题包括：非营利部门的定义及其存在的原因，非营利组织的独特特点，以及该部门面临的趋势与新兴问题。 第二周：聚焦于治理层面的领导力，讨论其与管理的区别，探讨良好治理的重要性及董事会的角色。 第三周：分析董事会成员在非营利组织中的角色及其职责，讨论影响董事会有效运作的挑战与问题。 第四周：复习课程内容，提交书面作业（称为董事会有效性准备评估，即BEAR），并进行两个多项选择的准备评估测试（RAT）。 第五周：鼓励参与讨论论坛中的RAT，必要时调整答案，并完成同伴审阅的BEAR作业。 欢迎您参加这个为期五周的课程，积极参与讨论与学习，提升在非营利组织中的领导与治理能力。
Name:The Nonprofit Sector, Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership and Governance
Description:Welcome to the first course in the series of three courses on developing leadership and improving governance in nonprofit organizations. We encourage you to dive right in--watch the lecture and guest interview videos, participate in the discussion forums, take the practice quiz, post a commentary in the forum, analyze the Board cases, and start working on the course project!
Name:Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Organizational Governance and Boards of Directors
Description:Hello and welcome to Week 2 of the first course on Leadership and Governance of Nonprofit Organizations! The goal of this week is to introduce you to the concept of nonprofit leadership and governance and the function of boards in organizational governance. Details can be found on the week 2 course pages below. As usual, we encourage you to engage in the content and with each other on this online teaching and learning journey!
Name:The Board's Role and Responsibilities
Description:Hello and welcome to Week 3! The goal of this week is to address a number of important questions related to how boards operate: What roles do board members play in nonprofit organizations, what are boards responsible for, What is the role and responsibilities of boards of directors and What are the elements of board behavior that shape how effective a board will be. These elements form the basis of the content of the second and third courses in this series on Developing Leadership and Improving Governance in Nonprofit Organizations. They also underline the structure of our course text, Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors AND the tool used to facilitate assessments of board performance in the Course 2 project. Two videos relating to these topics can be found on the week 3 course page.
Name:Concept Testing and Application
Description:Hello and welcome to Week 4! The goal of this week is to assess course learning. The end of Course 1 assessment of learning begins with the requirement that you to take two Readiness Assurance Tests (RATs) and submit your first Board Effectiveness Assessment Reflection (BEAR). During the testing process, don't forget to bring a piece of paper and pen to make a note of your answers to the RAT and RAT Application Exercise questions. You will need them to vote and discuss your responses in the RAT forums next week.
Name:Assessment of Learning: BEAR Peer Review and RAT Discussion Forums
Description:Hello, and Welcome to Week 5! The goal of this week is to discuss and complete the end of Course 1 assessment of learning. It begins with peer discussion of the individual Readiness Assurance Test (RAT) and RAT Application Exercise (case) you took last week plus peer review of the three BEAR assignments you have been assigned to evaluate this week. It concludes with re-taking the RAT and RAT Application Exercise Tests and returning the three BEAR assignments you peer-reviewed last week.
This course introduces you to the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, and the concepts of leadership and governance. While this course has been developed with North American culture in mind, we do appreciate that in other parts of the world the nature of the nonprofit sector, nonprofit organizations, nonprofit leadership and governance may not be the same. Nevertheless, it is our hope that much of the course content will still be of value to those in other parts of the world. To learn more about this course, please watch the overview video by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser: https://goo.gl/YMg1Qd. Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit Sector; Voluntary Sector; Nonprofit Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, Volunteer Organizations, Leadership, Management, Governance, Board, Board of Directors, Performance, Effectiveness Course 1 Overview: Week 1: Some of the questions you will explore this week are: What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? What are the unique characteristics of nonprofit organizations? What are the trends and emerging issues facing organizations in the nonprofit sector? Week 2: Questions to be explored this week are: What is leadership at the governance level and how is it different from management? What is good governance and why does it matter? What is a board of directors? Week 3: This week's questions: What roles do board members play in nonprofit organizations? Broadly speaking, what are boards responsible for and how do they go about their work? What are some of the issues that challenge the board's ability to go its work? Week 4: At this stage, you are asked to review the course content, submit a written assignment (known lightheartedly as a BEAR (Board Effectiveness Readiness Assessment), and take two multiple choice Readiness Assurance Tests (known similarly as RATs). One RAT will assess knowledge and reading comprehension and the other will test application of knowledge within a practical case. Week 5: We will encourage you to discuss the RATs in the discussion forums and take them again should you wish to change any of your answers based on the information exchanged.
