NonProfit

What Can I Do With a Landscape Design or Urban Planning Degree?

Let me guess, you're the type that likes to think through how things ought to be. You're detail oriented, and notice how small details about a park, or the main street of a town, or even a back yard contribute to the whole experience. You're also good at dealing with the big picture, and see . . .

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What Degree Do People With a Job in Fundraising Have?

Krystle Dodge

Nonprofit organizations rely on donations to do good in the world, but they can’t just sit back and passively wait for people to donate. Otherwise, their funding would dry up and their planned good works would never come to fruition. Instead, these organizations need to be proactive about raising money for their causes and campaigns. . . .

Business | Career | NonProfit

What Kind of Nonprofit Jobs Can You Get With a Business Degree?

Krystle Dodge

If you think business degrees are all about raking in big profits for companies that are already rich, you might be surprised to see another, less self-serving side of business. Business is by far one of the best degrees for nonprofit work. Some of the nonprofit jobs you can attain with a degree in business . . .

Top 10 Highest Paying Management Careers

Krystle Dodge

It’s good to be the boss – especially for managers in the nation’s highest-paid positions. Not only do you have the prestige of supervising lower-level employees and the other perks that accompany senior-level status, but you have serious earning potential. In nearly three-quarters of the most profitable management careers, six-figure median salaries are the norm, . . .

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What Degree Do I Need to Become a Fundraiser?

Krystle Dodge

IMAGE SOURCE Overview Nonprofit organizations are always in need of funding. Fundraisers are the professionals who work in-house or for consulting firms to raise money for these organizations. They participate in the fundraising process in its entirety, from doing the initial research into potential donors and devising strategies to implementing and coordinating the campaigns and . . .

25 Cheapest Online Associate’s Degree Programs

Terry Robinson

The current challenges facing traditional colleges and universities, including higher tuition, budget cuts, and course shortages, have caused many students to search for alternatives. With over three million students currently enrolled in fully online degree programs and roughly seven million taking at least one online course as part of their degree program, online education has clearly . . .

Top 20 Highest Paying Online Degrees

Terry Robinson

Millions of students are taking or considering taking their college courses online for various reasons: current employment, lower cost, convenience, logistics, business requirements, disabilities and a host of personal reasons. A 2011 survey done by the Babson Survey Research Group reported that just over 6 million students were enrolled in at least one online course. . . .

What degree do I need to be a Community Psychologist?

Terry Robinson

IMAGE SOURCE Overview Community psychology is a field of psychology which developed in the 1960's to promote well-being, increase empowerment and sense of community, and prevent the development of problems in communities, groups and individuals. It studies the individuals' contexts within communities and the wider society, and the relationships of the individual to communities and society. Community psychologists . . .

Top 20 in Demand Careers in Public Health

Terry Robinson

image source Overview To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The first wealth is health." This quotation is appropriate for the field of Public Health- the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals. More importantly, public health . . .