Understand your numbers. Fund your mission. Built for nonprofit professionals ready to make a bigger impact.
Offered through UNT Executive & Professional Learning, University of North Texas
Money Matters to Your Mission
Every nonprofit mission depends on financial sustainability. This course makes nonprofit finance and fundraising approachable, helping you understand financial statements, diversify revenue streams, and build the skills to confidently secure funding.
By the end, you're an active contributor to your organization's financial decisions, with the confidence to back it up.
Course Details
- Format: Online & self-paced
- Cost: $300
- Start Dates: Rolling enrollment, start anytime
- Time Commitment: 14 hours
- Credential: Digital badge upon completion
- Created in partnership with: UNT Center for Public Management
What You'll Learn
You'll learn to read financial statements, balance sheets and income statements, and use that to weigh in on real decisions: like whether you can afford to hire, whether a new program is financially sustainable, or whether your funding is too dependent on a single source.
Additionally, you'll also learn the art and science of fundraising: how to diversify your funding sources, build financial resilience, and match your mission to the right kind of donor.
Inside the Course
- Read the Numbers: Learn to read balance sheets and income statements
- Fund the Mission: Build the skills to diversify your revenue sources, match your mission to the right kind of donor, and write competitive grant applications even with limited staff and time.
- Apply It: Complete workbook exercises that put those skills into practice
- Case Study: Tackle a real, local nonprofit scenario, for example, deciding whether to hire new supervisors or invest in staff retention, that ties the whole course together
Who Should Take This Course
This course is designed for:
- People already working in the nonprofit sector: program development, fundraising/development, volunteer administration, community services, case management
- Social workers and case managers looking to grow into leadership roles within their organization
- Leaders at small and emerging nonprofits looking to build financial resilience and diversify their funding sources.
