Full-time MBA Program
Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership
The Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership prepares leaders with the practical business skills to found, lead, manage and govern nonprofit and public organizations for the public good. The Center offers a robust series of courses taught by a distinguished faculty of practitioners, researchers and established leaders in the field. It also offers students an array of hands-on field work opportunities that connect students with hundreds of nonprofit leaders and organizations.
Program highlights:
- Courses and course topics include: Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit
Consulting (Social Sector Solutions), Fundraising
and Marketing, Nonprofit Boards, Financial
Management of Nonprofit Organizations, Education
Leadership Speaker Series, and Private Philanthropy: Investing in Social Change Speaker Series. - Berkeley Board Fellows program places over 60 students on over 50 local nonprofit boards each year to serve the community and develop future board leaders.
- Social Sector Solutions or S3, deploys consultant teams of students with coaches from McKinsey & Company, to work with select nonprofit organizations on high-impact, entrepreneurial ventures.
- The Oakland Small Schools Residency engages Haas students in innovative education reform through a hands-on residency with a small school in Oakland.
- The Education Leadership Case Competition, brings together teams from top business schools from across the country to present solutions to imminent education issues.
- The Center hosts an Annual Public Leadership Dinner for over 250 alumni, students and nonprofit leaders.
- Haas for Students Fund is a student-driven matching fund in which Haas students donate a day of pay to support the career choices of their classmates who intern in the nonprofit or public sectors.
- Haas Loan Repayment Assistance Program is designed to provide financial support to recent graduates employed in the nonprofit or public sectors.
Director and Adjunct Professor Nora Silver brings over 30 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit and public sectors. The Faculty Research Director is James Lincoln.
