2024-2025 Graduate Bulletin

PAD 736 Starting a Not-For-Profit Corporation

3 hours

This course is designed to provide a practical overview involving starting a small to medium size Not-For-Profit (Nonprofit) corporation in New York State. Students will gain knowledge and conduct exercises involving proposing, forming, and fundraising and marketing their own original Nonprofit idea. Students will propose their own Nonprofit, draft the relevant formation documents, forms to apply for 501(c)(3) status, Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, operating procedures, fundraising plan and marketing strategy. At the end of the course, students will create a private website to hypothetically represent their Nonprofit to the public.

Credits

3