In today's increasingly competitive funding environment, it's even more important to ensure the quality and ingenuity of the programs your organization delivers. The IUPR Certificate in Program Design and Development will put your organization on the path to greater program success, achieving its client and efficiency outcomes, while also opening the door to new funding opportunities.

Participants earn the professional certificate by attending 3 one-day courses offered over the course of three weeks on the UT Dallas campus.

The Professional Certificate in Program Design and Development requires the completion of three 6-hour (one day) courses. Courses are typically offered once a week over a three week period. These courses combine a variety of demonstrations, lectures, group activities, and exercises to develop participant skills in the emerging areas of program design and development for non-profits.

Logic Models for Non-Profit Programs: Their Application and Use

In this course, participants engage in a variety of activities designed to demystify the logic model. Long embraced by funders as a tool for effective program design, logic models have proven difficult for the non-profit community to completely implement, frequently grouped with the variety of strategic planning tools that find their way onto the conference room shelf. In this course, participants learn the basic elements of logic models, as well as the variations that are employed by funders. Topics include:

1. identifying a program's theory of change;
2. integrating mission, vision, and goals; and,
3. developing the building blocks of a working logic model.

Non-Profit Programs and Change: Mapping the Way

In this course, participants will work to uncover the building blocks of program change with which they work. Beginning with a series of exercises designed to isolate and highlight the program activities that are core to their theory of change, the course then helps participants identify what differentiates their program from others in the marketplace. With critical activities identified, the key components of measurement are then identified. Topics include:

1. clearly identifying key program activities and their role in program success;
2. developing collaborations to better achieve program mission; and,
3. collecting the data necessary to facilitate measurement, improvement, and collaboration.

From Design to Development and Funding: Building Your Resource Model

In this course, participants will learn the basics of using sound program design and development techniques to increase and diversify program funding. Participants will walk through estimating and measuring basic program resource needs, both internal and external, and the proper capturing of actual program costs. Additional time will be spent introducing participants to the integration of program evaluation into their operational model to further enhance the potential for revenue development. Topics include:

1. developing a program's revenue model to reflect actual program costs;
2. documentation of program and administrative costs; and,
3. evaluating program impacts to secure and diversify program funding.