Purpose-driven Organizations
Examines roles, critiques, and infrastructure of purpose-driven organizations like nonprofits and social enterprises through historical and case study analysis.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.79 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.82 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Organizational management and professional development. Demonstrate knowledge and skills relevant to the structuring, operations, infrastructure, and strategy of a range of purpose-driven organizations, including nonprofit and community organizations, social enterprises, cooperatives, etc.
Ecological perspectives on community and society. Apply an ecological perspective to the third sector and the roles of a variety of types of purpose-driven organizations locally and globally; recognize and discern the context in which they do their work and have an impact on communities and other sectors. Take into account history, power dynamics, theories, global and local context, and trends.
Identity, diversity, and social justice. Recognize well-being and social justice in the context of purpose-based organizations and the third sector.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.79 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.82 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
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Topics
- Types of purpose-driven organizations: nonprofits, NGOs, social enterprises, cooperatives, land trusts
- Roles, critiques, characteristics, and infrastructural components of these organizations
- Historical, current, and trending approaches to purpose-driven work
Skills
- Structuring, operations, infrastructure, and strategy of purpose-driven organizations
- Applying ecological perspectives to the third sector and understanding context, power dynamics, and trends
- Recognizing well-being and social justice in purpose-based organizations
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