Take free online courses at your own pace and earn personalized certificates in Leadership, Business & Entrepreneurship, Civic Leadership, Public Management and current issues, such as climate change. Each lesson offers video, audio and text transcript options.
4 Steps to online learning.
1. Choose course
2. Take all lessons (at your own pace)
3. Pass the quiz
4. Get your certificate (signed by Macon Phillips, Coordinator Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State)***
Business & Entrepreneurship
This course explains critical aspects of entrepreneurship, from the process of developing a business, to how to identify and
expand in the marketplace, and how to pitch to new investors.
Course: Fundamentals of Business Expansion
Growth is one of the biggest challenges for most businesses. Learn how to raise capital and realize growth by using your business model to assess new markets and potential dates for expansion.
Civic Leadership
Course: Creating and Maintaining Social Enterprises
This course examines key aspects in developing nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) including the importance of partnerships with the private sector and government, how to determine if a social enterprise identifies and meets the needs of the community, and how to effectively advocate for youth.
Course: Community Organizing for Action
Grassroots campaigns and volunteers are essential to the success of most nongovernmental organizations involved in community development. Learn how to inspire and engage volunteers to be proactive in their communities and organize grassroots campaigns.
Leadership
Course: Management Strategies for People and Resources
This course outlines the essential skills required in leading individuals and organizations, whether it’s solving problems, creating the optimal team, or maneuvering through difficult situations in management.
Course: Strategies for Personal Growth and Development
Learn different ways you can develop your business, organization and personal skills.
Course: Workforce Collaboration and Development
Brush up on best practices in developing a collaborative work environment, including identifying key priorities, developing staff competencies and ensuring a diverse and effective workforce.
Public Management
Course: Basics of Public-Private Partnerships
Public-private partnerships are often the most effective and efficient means to resolving major societal challenges that are too big for one group or entity alone. Learn how to initiate, implement, and evaluate a public-private partnership.
Course: Strengthening Public Sector Service
Becoming a strong and effective public servant is not easy. This course will discuss ways to uphold transparency and objectivity while being adept at communicating with the public.
Focus On:
Focus On, a new category of YALI Network Online Courses addresses some of the pressing issues facing Africa today, offering insight and positive solutions for young African leaders.
Course: Understanding Elections and Civic Responsibility
This three-part course seeks to educate and inform on the role of citizens in the electoral process, and provide guidance on how to exercise civic responsibility and hold candidates and officials accountable – before, during, and after elections. Individual lessons in this course will cover general information on the voting process, grassroots organizing for campaigns, and practical skill development for capacity building and advocacy.
Course: Understanding Climate Change
Temperatures are rising, weather is becoming more extreme and less predictable, and drought is an increasing danger for communities from California to the Sahel. For many around the globe, dire predictions and warnings have been how citizens have learned about the dangers of climate change. In this course, the focus is on the science of how climate change occurs, the impact on the environment and human development, and practical and innovative solutions to address the causes of climate change while meeting the needs of the world.
Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute Online Courses
The Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute courses are adapted from classes and workshops presented by U.S. universities to Fellows. Each course covers a single topic and provides more in-depth instruction.
Course: Fundraising Concepts
This five-lesson course examines the key principles of fundraising for non-profit and for-profit endeavors. It provides instruction on how to create and implement strategic fundraising plans, how to design and execute marketing and communication strategies needed for fundraising, and the difference between fundraising for non-profit and for-profit organizations.
Course: Design Driven Entrepreneurship
This four-lesson course explains Design Driven Entrepreneurship, a planning process that involves identifying, creating, testing, and implementing marketable solutions for challenges facing people and communities. This course covers the origins of human-centered design theory, the process and tools needed to design and maintain a human-centered business, and best practices for developing and testing products.
Course: Servant Leadership – The Deciding Difference
Servant Leadership, a philosophy and set of practices meant to create a more just and caring world, has changed the way many people view their roles in professional organizations and government leadership. This course will go over the origins and principles of servant leadership, a comparative review of other key leadership styles, the benefits and criticisms of servant leadership, and how to become a servant leader.
*** Please note that certificates are not issued by an academic institution and does not entitle bearer to academic credit, it is only intended for personal and professional development alone.
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