Nonprofit Leadership Teaching and Learning

Although we talk about it a lot, nonprofit organization leadership is hard to teach and hard to learn in the classroom. Drawing on data collected during the first two years of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC) Accreditation project, this chapter focuses on leadership knowledge content to illustrate nonprofit and philanthropy first teaching and learning characteristics in nonprofit management graduate programs. As a content subject model for the pedagogy milieu of all 16 NACC Curricular nonprofit management themes, the discussion on “Leadership” teaching and learning principles will be relevant for the 15 remaining NACC Curricular guideline nonprofit and philanthropy first management knowledge categories (see Appendix).