Professional Programs

Center on Social Innovation and Finance

Professional Programs

Master of Arts in Development Policy and Practice
This fourteen-month program prepares individuals for advanced policy- and practice-oriented work in sustainable development by offering an integrated conceptual framework guiding the coursework, high-level tools, and the best thinking in the field.

Students are early- and mid-career adults working in a variety of development fields, and in particular those from public agencies and international and domestic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

Applicants to the program come from both international and domestic organizations and work in areas ranging from public policy, planning, economic development, sustainable development, environmental policy, public health, education, microenterprise, and more.

Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program
This program offers training and networking opportunities for practitioners in Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, and at UNH. Course topics cover a wide range of best practices from financial, risk, and human resource management, social performance monitoring and management, value chain and ProPoor market development, social enterprise, savings led microfinance, and sustainable responses to climate change.

Financial Innovations Roundtable
A “think-do” tank created in 2000, the Financial Innovations Roundtable creates cross-sector partnerships among conventional and non-traditional lenders, investors, and markets to provide low-income communities with increased access to capital and financial service. In partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Stonyfield Entrepreneurship Institute
An annual two-day “boot camp” for social entrepreneurs co-managed with Gary Hirschberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm. The institute has served hundreds of entrepreneurs by offering an intimate and stimulating environment to learn about financing, marketing, and managing change.