Certificate in Nonprofit Facilities Management

About this topic...

Strength in using and stewarding our nonprofit facilities stems from the organization's ability to manage its spaces and places effectively.

What You Will Learn

The four primary activities involved in nonprofit facilities management: strategic, operational, tactical, and technical support.

How we use permanent, temporary, and alternative facilities to create place attachment, place identity, and place dependence within our clients, visitors, donors, and staff.

A ten-item checklist that indicates effective facilities management across operations, assessment, and planning.

How to further assess our facilities management effectiveness using four perspectives: stakeholder, internal, learning, and financial.

How non-facilities team members can support facilities management through advocacy, budgeting, and participating in needs analysis.

Improving our facilities management processes through an understanding of the triple bottom line.

The role of an environmental impact analysis (EIA) and a social impact assessment (SIA), and how they differ.

Targeting sustainability, continuity, and budget-wise goal-setting at the organizational level.

Who is this topic for?

This learning path offers unique perspectives for those working in facilities as well as those with unrelated roles. For those who have facility management duties, this series presents some of the critical components and tools involved in creating place attachment and auditing your spaces. For those who don't currently work in facilities, you'll make connections between your stakeholders and your spaces as well as discover concepts like the triple bottom line, sustainability, and impact analyses.

This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies: