BUSINESS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT   

Class Overview

Have you ever managed a project and felt overwhelmed by the process, or underwhelmed by the results? Or do you aspire to be a project manager, but need training?

Learn how to guide a project with confidence, and skillfully lead a team to a successful result. In this class, develop skills to competently plan, manage, execute, and finish a project. Gain practical experience using the most effective project management tools that can be used immediately in a work setting.

The core curriculum brings to life the most modern Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guidelines. We will explore real-world scenarios and examine the specific challenges that often get in the way for people delivering projects, and learn how to work through them skillfully. 

This course is taught by a credentialed project management professional with vast experience managing projects in business as well as teaching this curriculum in an engaging and useful way.

This course offers an in-depth learning experience that will enhance your job growth and performance, or could be a pathway to a new career. The accelerated format is designed to provide high-quality content in a relatively short period over two quarters. It is scheduled for evenings to accommodate people who work during typical business hours.

By completing this course, you will earn a professional project management certificate that will bolster your resume and inform future employers about your knowledge and skills. This course will prepare you for professional project management exams from the Project Management Institute that will demonstrate your competence and expertise:

Certified Associated Project Management (CAPM) exam (no experience needed) or Project Management Professional (PMP) exam (if you have experience).

Schedule Details

This course runs for two quarters (total of 33 sessions), Mondays & Wednesdays, 6 pm - 9:15 pm, 9/30/2024 - 3/3/2025.

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Class Overview

The world of grant-seeking is becoming more competitive. Gain the knowledge to become a successful grant writer, whether you're a program manager, fund developer, the head of an organization, or community advocate. Learn a series of essential skills, from project design to development and persuasive writing, and gain practical experience. 

Discover where to find grant opportunities, how to write grant reports, and how to build relationships with grantmakers so that you have all the information you need to get funding for something you care deeply about. Explore the ethics involved in writing proposals and reports, and receiving funds. 

Topics will include:

• Writing a grant proposal, step by step
• Where to find grant opportunities and research strategies
• Using a logic model to design your project
• Formulating goals, outcomes, and objectives
• Preparing a project work plan and timeline
• Budgeting your project
• Evaluation 
• Editing for persuasive communications
• Building relationships with grantmakers
• The ethics involved in the grantwriting process

This online course provides on-demand instruction with reading and writing assignments plus a weekly Zoom meeting with your learning cohort for problem-based discussion. You will receive one-on-one personalized feedback on your writing and grant strategy - a huge asset of this class that sets it apart from others.

To achieve the certificate, you will need to complete the course capstone projects – a grant proposal for the project of your choice, a logic model, and a project budget following the course curriculum.

Your instructor, Allison Jones, M.Ed., has more than 25 years of experience writing grants and is a certified grantwriting instructor through the Grant Professional Association and Grant Professional Certification Institute. She will guide you through this process step by step. 

Learning Objectives

• Properly outline goals for grants
• Develop proposals that will help you win grants
• Utilize skills in how to present your proposal
• Develop relationships with grantmakers
• Have a finished grant proposal developed with the guidance of an expert 

Who Might Enjoy This Class?

• Professionals from government, nonprofit, tribes, and educational organizations
• Fund development consultants who are interested in honing their skills
• Freelance writers interested in expanding their available services
• Anyone interested in a career in nonprofits, government, education, tribes, fund development, or grantwriting

Free Info Session 

Meet the instructor, find out more about the class, and ask your questions!
Register for the INFO SESSION

Class Overview

The world of grant-seeking is becoming more competitive. Gain the knowledge to become a successful grant writer, whether you're a program manager, fund developer, the head of an organization, or community advocate. Learn a series of essential skills, from project design to development and persuasive writing, and gain practical experience. 

Discover where to find grant opportunities, how to write grant reports, and how to build relationships with grantmakers so that you have all the information you need to get funding for something you care deeply about. Explore the ethics involved in writing proposals and reports, and receiving funds. 

Topics will include:

• Writing a grant proposal, step by step
• Where to find grant opportunities and research strategies
• Using a logic model to design your project
• Formulating goals, outcomes, and objectives
• Preparing a project work plan and timeline
• Budgeting your project
• Evaluation 
• Editing for persuasive communications
• Building relationships with grantmakers
• The ethics involved in the grantwriting process

This online course provides on-demand instruction with reading and writing assignments plus a weekly Zoom meeting with your learning cohort for problem-based discussion. You will receive one-on-one personalized feedback on your writing and grant strategy - a huge asset of this class that sets it apart from others.

To achieve the certificate, you will need to complete the course capstone projects – a grant proposal for the project of your choice, a logic model, and a project budget following the course curriculum.

Your instructor, Allison Jones, M.Ed., has more than 25 years of experience writing grants and is a certified grantwriting instructor through the Grant Professional Association and Grant Professional Certification Institute. She will guide you through this process step by step. 

Learning Objectives

• Properly outline goals for grants
• Develop proposals that will help you win grants
• Utilize skills in how to present your proposal
• Develop relationships with grantmakers
• Have a finished grant proposal developed with the guidance of an expert 

Who Might Enjoy This Class?

• Professionals from government, nonprofit, tribes, and educational organizations
• Fund development consultants who are interested in honing their skills
• Freelance writers interested in expanding their available services
• Anyone interested in a career in nonprofits, government, education, tribes, fund development, or grantwriting

Free Info Session 

Meet the instructor, find out more about the class, and ask your questions!
Register for the INFO SESSION

Class Overview

Gain a deeper insight into what’s going on when you cook and bake! Whether you are a home cook or a professional, you can become a better cook with a little knowledge about the science of food and cooking. You'll fall in love with cooking, as well as the beauty of the amazing world we live in.

Many techniques still taught in culinary schools are based on tradition rather than science. In this class, focus on understanding the fascinating field of food science through a combination of fun and fascinating lectures, demos, with some hands-on cooking and baking. Learn to make better choices about cooking methods and techniques, and how to produce better finished products more easily and consistently.

Elevate your knowledge about nutrition, how food works, sustainability issues, and the chemistry of cooking and baking. Develop modern techniques using scientific principles.

Learn many fundamental concepts and apply them to real-world cooking and baking. Below are some of the areas that will be covered in this class. All of these topics will be taught in a way that is accessible to anyone, regardless of their science background.

Topics include:

• food molecules and how they work (water, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates)
• cooking methods to use and why to use them
• nutrition, nutritional epidemiology (how research is done and what it actually means), and food politics
• basic chemistry and physics (heat, molecules, bonds and attraction, chemical reactions, etc.) 
• reactions in cooking and baking
• colors in food, flavors, aromas, and gastrophysics (all about how we taste things)
• colloids, pectins, gums, and solutions and solubility
• gluten and other interesting substances
• pH, acids and bases
• fermentation
• all about salts
• pathogens and other icky things
• special topics: bread and flour, frozen desserts, and everything you always wanted to know about eggs* (*but were afraid to ask)

All supplies and materials are included.

This course is approved for 30 continuing education hours toward your application for certification by the American Culinary Federation (ACF), or recertification.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the basics of how foods work, interact, and change through cooking and other culinary techniques
• Learn best techniques for preparing different foods based on their chemistry and other attributes 
• Gain more efficient and reliable cooking and baking techniques  
• Improve understanding about science through the lens of food 
• Be able to create incredible dishes using modern techniques and scientific principles

Who Might Enjoy This Class?

• Home cooks and bakers interested in improving their skills and knowledge 
• People interested in science who would enjoy applying their knowledge to food, cooking, and baking
• Anyone who is curious to learn more about science and how the world works
• Professional cooks and bakers who would like more technical understanding from a science perspective 
• People interested in certification, or re-certification, by the  American Culinary Federation (ACF), and earning continuing education hours. 
   

Class Overview

Project management skills are essential in a wide variety of professional roles, and can even be a wonderful asset in your personal life. Learn how to become a skilled project manager in this class. Discover how to reach the goals of any project successfully, while leading a team to accomplish all aspects of the project.

Gain basic knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques that you can apply to a wide variety of projects, even though each project is unique. Focus on managing a single, stand-alone project as the basis for your learning during this class. In each session, we will work through aspects of the project lifecycle, from planning to executing, to closing, and everything in between. You will be able to follow the same steps for managing future real-life projects. 

During this course, explore the following aspects of project management:

• Project lifecycles from initiation through planning, executing, controlling, and closing
• Scope management
• Cost management
• Project charters
• Creating a work breakdown structure
• Network diagramming
• Finalizing the project plan
• Stakeholder identification
• Scheduling and schedule management
• Earned value measurement
• Change control

The curriculum is based on the Project Management Institute's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge and provides the foundation for your training to become certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP). This is the first part of the Accelerated Project Management course (highly recommended if you'd like to pursue the PMP exams and certification).

Learning Objectives

• Be able to list a typical set of deliverables needed to effectively manage a small, stand-alone project
• Write a project charter for a small project
• Create a project plan for a stand-alone project
• Know how to develop a work breakdown structure
• Be familiar with the estimating process
• Be able to develop a project schedule, including estimating, PDM network diagramming, critical path method, and developing a Gantt chart
• Understand the importance of risk management and be able to facilitate risk management planning for a small project
• Identify key project management activities that go on during the execution phase of a project
• Understand project scope creep and describe the change control process
• Know what activities are associated with the project performance control and be able to define operating metrics and control thresholds
• Identify key project closing activities
• Understand the importance of lessons learned and their impact on future projects
• Use MS Project to effectively plan, schedule, analyze resource utilization, and track project performance.

Who Might Enjoy This Class

Prerequisites: An understanding and experience with MS Windows and Office products; two or more years of experience in a project management environment is helpful, but not required.

• Product or program managers, coordinators, staff or supervisors
• Anyone interested in understanding project management
• Journey-level project managers seeking to deepen their expertise and understanding
• Subject matter experts
• Financial analysts
• Team leaders, stakeholders, and senior leadership

Free Info Session

Meet the instructor, find out more about the class, and ask your questions!

REGISTER for the Info Session