CERTIFICATE IN NONPROFIT FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

More Than a Building: Manage Nonprofit Spaces With Strategy, Purpose, and Impact

Facilities management in the nonprofit sector goes beyond upkeep—it’s about creating spaces that serve your mission and your people. This certificate helps you connect physical environments to strategy, sustainability, and stakeholder experience, whether or not facilities are part of your official role.

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What You'll Learn

Through the 9 courses included in this certificate, you’ll learn how to approach facilities management with a strategic lens—making the most of your organization’s spaces while supporting sustainability, continuity, and stakeholder engagement.

The Four Functions of Facilities Management

Explore strategic, operational, tactical, and technical support activities—and how they work together to keep your organization running smoothly.

Creating Meaningful Spaces

Learn how place attachment, identity, and dependence can deepen relationships with clients, donors, staff, and community members.

Tools for Assessing and Improving Facilities

Use a 10-item checklist and four-point evaluation model (stakeholder, internal, learning, financial) to assess facilities performance.

Supporting Facilities—No Matter Your Role

Understand how budgeting, sustainability, the triple bottom line, and impact assessments help all team members contribute to better facilities management.

Make Your Space Work Harder for Your Mission

Learn how strategic facilities management can elevate stakeholder experience and operational success.

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Courses Included

Each certificate includes nine bite-sized, 15-minute courses packed with video lessons, reflection exercises, knowledge checks, and interactive activities. Even better? They're fully mobile-friendly, so you can learn anytime, anywhere—right from your phone or tablet.

01 What Is Nonprofit Facilities Management?

02 Skills to Support Nonprofit Facilities Management

03 Hallmarks of Effective Nonprofit Facilities Management

04 Activating Your Own Facilities Management Efforts

05 Designing Facilities Management Approaches

06 Goal Setting That Supports Facilities Management

07 Getting Motivated About Facilities Management

08 Facilities Management in Review

09 Facilities Management: Developing your Personal Learning Plan

All Merit® Certificates Include:

Microlearning Courses 15 minutes each 3 hours of learning experience

3 Hours of Guided Learning

Incorporating 9 micro-learning courses, learning checks, and a reflective workbook.

Self-Assessment Plan

Checking your savvy on 5 related leadership competencies.

Nonprofit Professional Development Certificate

Certificate & CFRE Points

Complete the coursework for both a brag-worthy certificate of completion plus 3 CFRE points.

Our learners love us!

Thousands of nonprofit professionals have completed courses and certificates on the Merit® Nonprofit Professional Development platform. Here are just a few of their thoughts.

This was eye-opening—I had no idea how much strategy goes into facilities decisions.

- Omar N., Grand Rapids, MI

I don’t work in facilities, but this helped me understand how our space impacts our programs and people..

- Lindsey J., Richmond, VA

I loved the mix of operational tips and deeper impact-focused thinking.

- Carlos F., Sacramento, CA

Align Your Facilities With Purpose

Whether you manage the space or just work in it—this training helps you improve it.

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Who's behind Merit®?

Merit® is a signature product of the Nonprofit Help Center, a company founded in 2018 by Dr. Emilie Socash. The Nonprofit Help Center team helps nonprofits and the people who power them go from mission impossible to mission unstoppable with a just-for-nonprofits suite of capacity-building solutions, fixing what's holding them back.