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Program on Leadership and Management of (posted November 14, 2001)
The Program on Nonprofits of the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research is committed to the improvement of civil society and its institutions through curricular innovation, support for the education of the next generation of practitioners and scholars, faculty development, research, and capacity building in nonprofit and community-based organizations. New Courses on the Non Profit Sector: The Policy School offers an innovative concentration in nonprofits in each of its graduate professional degrees: Policy Studies, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning. Fellowships: The Nonprofit Program offers fellowships and internships to students in Policy Studies, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning who want to concentrate their graduate education on the problems of nonprofits and civil society. Additionally, the Policy School runs a university-wide competition to support dissertation research in this area of interest. New Faculty: UCLA has appointed Helmut Anhier, an authority on the international development of nonprofit sectors most recently on the faculty of the London School of Economics, to a committed a permanent, new faculty line at the senior level for a scholar in the nonprofit field. Research: In addition to building a community of scholars in this field, Social Welfare Professor Yeheskel "Zeke" Hasenfeld has initiated a survey of the programs, governance, finances, administration, and inter-organizational relations of the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles county. The Program in Nonprofits is supported by a major gift from an anonymous donor
in partnership with UCLA. Research grants and programmatic gifts from many sources
enhance and extend the reach of the Program.
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