Emerging Leaders in Nonprofit Management

To prepare the next generation of leaders, PASE and Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York (Colin Powell School MPA) have partnered to relaunch Emerging Leaders in Nonprofit Management: A Course for Youth Program Professionals, a comprehensive, three-month course in nonprofit leadership and management. By investing in developing more capable leaders, we can strengthen organizations and ensure better outcomes for the youth they serve.

For over a decade, PASE’s course has offered lectures and practical discussions that merge the talents and experiences of professors with insights from seasoned nonprofit professionals from the PASE community. Class sessions provide a strong theoretical base for understanding issues facing nonprofits, while offering practical ways to improve critical aspects of management, including: strategic planning; financial management; human resources; fundraising; advocacy; board relations; and evaluation, among other topics. The Emerging Leaders course has yielded diverse, and uniformly positive, results for its over 300 alumni, including career advancement and increased long-term commitment to the youth-serving community.

Applications Closed

Applications for the 2025 cohort closed on November 24, 2024. 

Strategic Challenge Projects

As part of the program, participants work in teams on a Strategic Challenge Project to explore a challenge or opportunity related to non-profit management or leadership. Through the project, the teams identify and carefully define a problem or opportunity, collect and analyze the information needed to address the issue, propose alternative solutions, and recommend a strategy to implement the preferred solution. Below are the projects from the winter 2025 cohort.