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Community Economic Development
Explores the relationship between local community economic development, environmental sustainability, cultural vitality, and trend in regional and national economics, with specific focus on how to make community and economic investments that yield development outcomes that contribute to economic, equitable, environmental,…
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Philanthropy and Society
Provides students a holistic background of the philanthropic sector. Begins with an in-depth analysis of history and context and ends with a discussion of current strategies and approaches to giving by foundations. Builds in sequence: history, context, sub-sectors, accountability, and…
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Public Sector Financing
Covers financial management in public agencies, with the primary focus on state and local government.
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Environmental Justice
Examines background and legacy of public policy in contributing to and maintaining environmental injustice. Reviews methods for diagnosing and fostering environmental justice. Explores contemporary approaches to achieving environmental justice.
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Water Law and Policy
Examines how society allocates and safeguards freshwater resources. Explores how policy and law address leading water management challenges, including water scarcity, groundwater depletion, and freshwater ecosystem preservation.
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Environmental Policy
Presents background to establish the need for environmental policy. Explores in a comparative manner, examining both successes and failures, various strategies that have been used or proposed to protect the environment. Explores different policy tools for environmental protection, including command-and-control…
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Poverty and Anti-Poverty
Examines the nature and extent of poverty in the United States, its causes and consequences, and the antipoverty effects of public policies.
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Economic Approaches to Environmental Management
Examines the economic tools relevant to natural resource and environmental management. Tools are developed in the context of a series of resource problems, with an eye towards building intuition useful for addressing complex policy problems that do not fit neatly…
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Nonprofit Financial Management
Provides an understanding of the financial framework on nonprofit organizations. Focuses on the financial principles of management of nonprofits, with an emphasis on financial reporting, strategic financial planning, managerial decision-making and budgeting.
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Taxes and Social Policy
Examines major areas of social policy that interact with the tax system.