Program Sustainability: Funding, Administration, and Evaluation

Prerequisite: SWRK 6300 and SWRK 6500

Course Restrictions: Restricted to Master of Social Work students.

This course will focus on helping students to develop grant writing and grant management skills, learn to work with non-profit social service agencies towards developing strategic plans, business plans, and consider various sources of revenue. Emphasis will be placed on understanding grant writing and reporting on grant deliverables. Students will learn social entrepreneurship models as well as western and Indigenous approaches to program evaluation. Through course assignments, in-depth class discussions, and course readings, students will develop increased insight about their role in program development, funding, sustainability, and evaluation and its implications for community wellbeing.

Credit: 3