The Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program prepares people to work in community-based, as well as larger local and national nonprofit organizations in a wide range of management functions.
Additionally, it prepares people to manage and lead organizations across the full range of mission areas - including health and human services, mental health, the arts and culture, education, public issues advocacy, the environment, community development, religion, and voluntary and community associations.
Our graduates include executives of small and large nonprofit organizations including:
- Grant-making foundations
- Animal welfare
- Environmental organizations
- Family and children services
- Neighborhood/community development
- Arts organizations
- Domestic violence
- Mental health
- Local and regional government
- Criminal justice and victims services
- Older adult services
- Youth development
- Disease-related organizations
- Fund development and nonprofit consulting
- Membership, including civic, organizations
- International development
- Federated fund-raising and fund-distribution
- Independent education
A sample of NPML alumni and their positions:
David Berger: Executive Director, St. Louis/Jefferson County Solid Waste Management District
Amy Bopp: Sr. Project Manager at Family League of Baltimore
Gloria Brainsby: Youth IDA Specialist, Beyond Housing
Barbara Brown: Manager of Student and Special Services, College of Optometry, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Jean Cavender: Director, St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center
Tim DeGhelder: English Teacher, SINE Education
Anthony D'Agostino: Chief Executive Officer, St. Patrick Center
Rachel D'Souza-Siebert: Principal, Gladiator Consulting
Romney Edwards: National Recruitment and Selection Specialist, Urban Teacher Center
Marci Mayer Eisen: Director, I.E. Millstone Jewish Leadership Institute at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Erica Fendler: Consumer Lending Manager, St. Louis Community Credit Union
Emily Fishman: Employee Engagement Manager, U.S. Bank
Sarah Javier: Vice President of Development & Marketing, Crider Health Center
Jim Judge: Owner of Judge Evaluation Services, LLC
Cassandra Kaufman: Director of Community Information and Outcome Management, United Way
Chris Krehmeyer: Executive Director, Beyond Housing
Elizabeth Kurila: Director of Development, Long Beach Opera, Long Beach, Calif.
Tim Lancaster: Probation Officer and clinical supervisor, Missouri Probation Supervision Services
Vito Lucido: Transportation Advocate, Delta Center for Independent Living
Leslie Mar'Na: Regional Shelter Administrator, Salvation Army
Felice McClendon: Teen Outreach Program National Network Manager, Wyman Center
Padraic McGrath: Quality Improvement Manager, Catholic Charities
Travis Miller: General Secretary, Home Mission, United Pentecostal Church
Lawrence Miskel: Human Resources Director, Beyond Housing
Mary Mobley McMurtrey: Director of Community Engagement, Greater St. Louis Community Foundation
Wallace Mu'Min: Social Studies Teacher, Vashon High School, St. Louis Public Schools
Laura Musler: Senior Accountant, Daughters of Charity
Jessica Pace: SEIU Local 721, (Los Angeles) Community Relations Specialist
Kelly Pollock: Executive Director, Center of Creative Arts (COCA)
Ellen Reed: Executive Director, Turning Point Domestic & Sexual Violence Shelter & Support Services
Dan Reynolds: Managing Partner, Holmes, Radford, and Avalon
Shawn Riley: Program Manager, St. Louis Life
Mary Rocchio: Manager, Regional Policy Research, East-West Gateway Coordinating Council of Governments
Jim Schallom: Sr. Director of Development, UMSL College of Business
Delicia Stephens: Adult Protective Community Worker, Division of Senior and Disability Services, MO Dept of Health and Senior Services
Andrea Stewart-Douglas: Midwest Regional Director, INROADS
Ashley Turigliatto: Community Relations Manager, St. Andrews Charitable Foundation
Lindsay Walls: Community Representative, American Cancer Society
David Weber: Chief Operating Officer, Grace Hill Settlement House
Maranda Witherspoon: Program Officer, Missouri Foundation for Health
Patricia Zahn: Community Outreach & Engagement Manager and Director of the Des Lee Collaborative Vision , UMSL
