Graduate Courses 2011–2012

Leadership and Management of Nonprofit Organizations (Fall 2011)
Public Policy M228 and Urban Planning M288; Social Welfare 241E

Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours.

Designed for graduate students.

  • Various patterns of community action for attaining social welfare objectives; research and field experience directed toward study of social problems within context of community planning; emerging patterns of physical, economic, and social planning within framework of social change theory.
Advanced Theory of Social Welfare Practice in Organizations, Communities and Policy Settings: Human Service Organizations (Winter 2012)
SW241H

Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours.
Corequisite: required social work practicum.

  • Conceptual framework and analytic tools provided to understand organizational features of human services.
  • Human service organizations work on people to improve, sustain, or prevent decline of well-being.
  • Because of their function these organizations have special attributes that distinguish them from other organizations.
  • Examination of these attributes, theoretical perspective to study them, and analysis of factors that shape nature of work they do.
  • Explanation of determinants of relations between workers and clients by looking at such variables as policy environment, values and mission, internal structure, service technology, reward structure, organizational responses to staff and client diversity, and power relations between workers and clients.
The Nonprofit Sector, State and Civil Society (Spring 2012)
SW290S, PP M227, UP M287
HOW FUNDERS THINK AND WHY IT MATTERS:  A Course on Philanthropy and Public Policy (Thursdays 2 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.)

The manner in which the U.S. tax laws encourage charitable giving has had a significant impact on civil society and social welfare.  A number of initiatives, including not only leading scholarly and medical advances but public television, urban renewal, school vouchers and the modern human rights and women’s rights movements, owe much to the support provided by foundations. The course will review this history of the nonprofit sector, state and civil society in the U.S., with an examination of the foundations emerging in the first half of the 20th century to those that play a large role here in California (Broad, Irvine, Ahmanson, Haas, etc.). 

Classes will be devoted to a number of key topics, including government regulation and media scrutiny of foundations, corporate philanthropy and family foundations, and criticism of philanthropic practices from the left and the right.  Most classes (7 of 10) will feature guest speakers from leading foundations and non-profit organizations.

Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours.

Instructor: Michael Fleming is Executive Director of the Los Angeles-based David Bohnett Foundation. He was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to the newly created White House Council for Community Solutions. Prior to joining the David Bohnett Foundation, he was Media Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, an Associate Producer at Boston’s PBS station, WGBH, and Associate Director for the L.A.-based Hollywood Supports, producing seminars on sexual orientation and AIDS in the workplace. Mr. Fleming is particularly focused on leadership development graduate programs. He has overseen the development of Bohnett Fellows Programs at The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, where he also sits on the Dean’s Council and contributes to the strategic planning process.

 

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