Name of Center
Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program
Schulich School of Business
York University
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA
www.schulich.yorku.ca/nmlp
About the Center
Director: Brenda Gainer, Royal Bank Professor of Nonprofit Management
The Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program has been operating since 1983. The NMLP offers degree programs (MBA specialization, BBA electives, PhD electives, BA certificates) as well as a wide variety of professional programs (Executive Directors Institute, Emerging Leaders Program, the York Maytree program for Leaders in Immigrant and Refugee Organizations, Toronto Community Housing Leadership Program to name a few). We have nearly 1500 graduates, 7 tenure-track faculty who teach in our programs, 20 part-time faculty members and over 25 senior coaches and mentors from the community. Our faculty conducts research on a wide variety of topics including governance, complexity theory, market orientation, organizational change and evaluation. We work with many community partners, including the Maytree Foundation, the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation, the Kahanoff Foundation, Imagine Canada, and a variety of nonprofit organizations across Canada.
Major education initiatives
- Executive Directors Institute (cutting edge seminars for EDs in social services, the arts, the environment and education)
- Research Update Series (a quarterly series designed to share academic research with community leaders)
- Emerging Leaders (addressing the leadership crisis through a program designed to educate middle-managers)
Major research projects
- Federated Governance of Nonprofit Organizations (Pat Bradshaw)
- The Development of Philanthropic Attitudes and Behaviour among Youth (Brenda Gainer and Paulette Padanyi)
- Improving Health through NGO-Private Partnerships: A Taxonomy and Analysis of Effectiveness (Brenda Zimmerman and Arvind Singhal)