Management Course Available via Satellite

The Public Broadcasting Service has created a new educational series and certificate program on non-profit management.

The PBS Adult Learning Service, in collaboration with the Learning Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, a Madison, Wis., group that trains non-profit employees, will offer via satellite a series of courses for non-profit managers. The topics include strategic planning, management of volunteers, and fund raising.

The educational series consists of eight three-hour sessions scheduled through 1999, with the first class beginning this September. Each session includes a live two-hour satellite feed and an hour of on-site instruction and activities.

People who take the course can earn a “participation certificate” by attending all eight sessions, or they can obtain a “certificate of excellence” and 4.8 continuing-education units if they attend all the classes and successfully complete homework assignments.

Organizations can spend $4,000 to buy a license that allows them to offer the class to an unlimited number of students, or they can spend $40 per student per program, as long as they enroll at least six students for all programs.

For more information: Contact the PBS Adult Learning Service, (800) 257-2578; e-mail als@pbs.org. More information is also available on the service’s Web site (http://www.pbs.org/learn/als/nonprofit).