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Graduates from the Middle Management Program celebrate with INM staff. Front row from left to right: Dania Diaz, INM assistant director; Deborah Levine, director of HIV/AIDS Services for the Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement; Tracey Allard, former program officer for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone; Rachel Cytron, youth development director for Harlem RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), and Jennifer DeYoung, INM program coordinator. Second row: Dennis Brown, associate executive director for Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement; Samantha Stone, former assistant director for the Morningside Area Alliance; Douglas Brooks, director of Crown Heights Multi-Service Center; Diahan Scott, supervisor of St. Dominic's Home; Cecilia Roddy, senior program associate for the Project Return Foundation, and Lori Roth, INM executive director.
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The Executive Level Program and the Leadership Development Program open house, which will be held on Thurs., Nov. 9, in William and June Warren Hall, room 416, kicks off the 2000/01 recruitment season for the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management (INM) program.
"INM offers intensive executive development programs to help not-for-profit and public organizations better serve their constituents," said Lori Roth, INM's executive director. "The executives who enroll are diverse both personally and professionally and represent agencies of all fields and sizes -- from small, grassroots organizations to large, institutional, not-for-profit organizations. What unites all participants, however, is a need and desire to manage their operations more strategically in order to fulfill their agencies' missions and to compete in a tough environment."
Each year, INM collaborates with funders and intermediaries to actively recruit candidates who will use management education to strengthen their individual organizations, and in turn, build and strengthen their communities. This year, the INM will offer the Middle Management Program, seven days of courses designed for mid-level managers and executive directors of young communitybased organizations; the Executive Level Program, 19 days of intensive study for executive directors and senior-level managers of not-for-profit and public institutions, and the Leadership Development Program, five days of studies designed for executive directors and senior level managers who wish to develop their leadership capacity and increase their competence in interpersonal relations. The application deadline for the Middle Management Program is November 14. Applications for the Executive Level and Leadership Development Programs are due December 19.
Scholarships for the INM programs are allocated based on agency need. "We like to say that we never turn an agency away from our programs because of need," said Dania Diaz, INM's assistant director. INM's scholarship fund is supported by several foundations, including the Altman Foundation, the Robert Browne Foundation, Chase Manhattan Foundation, Citigroup Foundation, the Pinkerton Foundation and at the request of Joseph and Carol Reich, the Pumpkin Foundation. "We also collaborate with intermediaries who are interested in building the managerial capacity of members within their networks. Many of these provide additional tuition assistance to individuals enrolled in our programs," Roth added.
The INM is an internationally recognized program of management studies in the Executive Education Division of Columbia's School of Business, which was recently ranked number one in a Financial Times survey of executive education providers. Approximately one half of the Institute's students come from New York City organizations, with a significant percentage from the Morningside Heights area. Other students represent agencies within and outside of the New York tri-state area, including Washington D.C., Florida, California and Puerto Rico. In recent years, almost 20 percent of the student managers have also come from overseas to attend INM programs.
Last month, INM celebrated its 25th anniversary in Columbia's Low Library Rotunda. The event honored the Institute's more than 1,300 alumni and marked the inception of a special fellowship named for Professor Thomas P. Ference, one of its founders. The Ference Fellowship for Excellence in Not-for-Profit Management is valued at $10,000 and will be awarded for the first time this academic year.
For further information about the INM and its programs, contact the Executive Education Division of the Graduate School of Business at 212-854-6018 or 4226, fax 212-316-1473 or email inm@columbia.edu.
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