M.S. in Nonprofit Management and Leadership

The nonprofit sector requires leaders and managers who are creative, skilled, and strategic in creating and maintaining organizations that successfully address their missions. Nonprofit organizations also employ an increasing share of the nation’s workforce with employment growth outpacing that of a number of major industries.* Advance your career in this important high-growth sector as you enhance your ability to create positive social change—a key component of Walden’s mission for more than 40 years.

Whatever your background, you’ll have the opportunity to gain the critical skills needed to lead diverse and complex nonprofit organizations. Learn from scholar-practitioners who share their academic and professional experiences to help you quickly apply what you learn.

As a Walden student, you can choose when, where, and how you learn thanks to our online format and MobileLearn ^SM. Through this education technology, you can listen to coursework on your MP3 player, access your classroom from your iPhone, download coursework to your laptop, and more.

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*Nonprofit employment statistics cited in the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies’ report, “Employment in America’s Charities: A Profile,” 2006.