ABSTRACT
For decades, research into nonprofit management education (NME) has focused on debates about the “best place” in a university to locate a program, the establishment of curricular guidelines and an accrediting body for degree-granting programs, and the degree to which nonprofit practitioners and the sector as a whole are benefitting from and utilizing undergraduate and graduate programs. However, as the nonprofit sector matures and the value of NME and training becomes more recognized, the debates and research needs to shift. Instead of making the case that NME is necessary and worthy, educators and center directors in the field now need to address a critical new issue – how to cope with the proliferation of seemingly innumerable training and educational opportunities for current and future nonprofit practitioners. This increasingly crowded landscape has the potential to create confusion in the minds of both the end users – the students – and those in the nonprofit sector who are interested in hiring trained nonprofit professionals.
