Upcoming NPU Features and Benefits

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits is hard at work to continue to improve Nonprofit University's benefits to you.  Listed below are some future enhancements to keep an eye out for.  Check back regularly for updates to this service and it's benefits to you.

New Course and Learning Management System

• GCN plans to offer an improved learning management system for NU students and instructors. The system will facilitate access to on-line course descriptions and registration, job role competency assessments, and provide support for NU courses and educational solutions.

Competency Assessments

• On-line, interactive assessment tools linked will be available to identify job strengths and areas needing improvement.  A customized course list will be created for you based on this information for you to follow.

Professional Development Plans

• NU is developing education and training courses, selected certificate programs, seminars, and other academic resources designed to address an array of job-role related competencies.  Individuals, team leaders, even organizations can use data to strategically plan for course selection on an individual level

HR Toolkits

• NU is developing HR Toolkits to support each key nonprofit management area.  Kits will contain resources that both individuals and organizations will find useful as they develop talent and/or support careers in the nonprofit sector.  Kits will contain such things as:
  • Typical career ladders/job roles in that management area
  • Sample job descriptions associated with a career ladder for that area
  • Interviewing guides
  • Salary charts
  • Performance evaluation templates, including 360 evaluations

Solution Sets

• NU is developing workforce solution sets to support course work in each nonprofit management area.  These will include such resources as:
  • “How to Guides”
  • Templates associated with common business practices, typical internal nonprofit controls/reports, MOU formats, etc
  • Sample accounting and other program planning and/or monitoring tools
  • Supplemental readings, key bibliographic references, key professional associations, etc.

Watch for these enhancements:

• Workforce/Succession Planning Tools
  
• Team Building Tools
  
• Career Mapping and Assesments