Human service nonprofit organizations today find themselves in a position of addressing rising community needs within a political and fiscal environment where program resources are increasingly scarce. Issues of consolidation and leadership transition create further challenges for human service nonprofit organizations. Combined, these factors place demands on human service nonprofits that require new organizational strategies to manage successfully the shifting economic and political environment. This course will connect conceptual understandings of contemporary management practice to emerging organizational strategies and analytic tools intended to help human service nonprofits better serve their community, agency, and client groups. Intended to complement other course offerings on nonprofit management, this course will critically engage a variety of topics: social innovation and entrepreneurialism; performance measurement and returns on investment; scaling up programmatic efforts; knowledge transfer; revenue diversification; branding; social media and communication strategies. Course readings will include academic articles and book chapters, cases, and articles by thought leaders in the sector.