Master of Arts in Nonprofit Leadership

Become a Strategic Nonprofit Leader.

Earn your master's in just 15 months!

MA in Nonprofit Leadership Studies

The work you care about deserves leadership that can move it forward. Lynchburg’s MA in Nonprofit Leadership Studies helps you turn your commitment to a better world into the strategy, action, and sustainable results needed to create it.

You’ll learn to advocate effectively, engage volunteers, communicate with purpose, and use research, data, and evaluation to make informed decisions. You’ll also build the practical leadership and management skills to set operational goals, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and direct resources where they can make the greatest difference.

Your ideas can inspire change. With the right tools, you can build the teams, systems, and strategies that sustain it.

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Leadership becomes more complex as your influence grows. At Lynchburg, you’ll gain the confidence to make decisions when the pressure is real, communicate in ways that build trust and alignment, and lead change when competing priorities threaten to slow progress.

This is leadership development you can bring directly into your work, your teams, and your organization as you move forward. Let your impact be defined by intention, not expectation.

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Through Lynchburg's MA in Nonprofit Leadership, you'll study critical areas for effectively managing nonprofit organizations:

Leading Boards and Staff: Strengthen governance, engage your team, and align people around shared goals.
Nonprofit Finance: Build budgets, interpret financial information, and steward resources responsibly.
Grant Writing: Identify funding opportunities and develop persuasive proposals that support sustainable growth.
Strategic Communications and Public Relations: Strengthen your organization’s voice, protect its reputation, and inspire people to support its mission.

Rachel Covington, MA ’20, has built a career helping organizations and communities grow through stronger leadership. As a nonprofit consultant and facilitator, she supports board governance and leadership development while leading Leadership Southside, the Dan River Region’s longest-running professional leadership program.

This program covers every aspect of nonprofit management. That may feel intimidating at times, but I would encourage you to lean in and welcome that vulnerability, because those are the times in which you learn the most.

Rachel Covington ʼ20 MA

Nonprofit Consultant | Epstein Clark Consulting

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