Paul Brest, instructor at Philanthropy University, and Laura Tyson, Director of the Institute for Business and Social Impact at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, certified that Maria Olshanskaya successfully completed the 7-week course "Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy". The course provided an overview on identifying milestones in nonprofit strategy design, covering topics such as problem definition, stakeholder identification, designing a theory of change and logic model, and establishing assessment criteria. Philanthropy University is a non-degree granting initiative sponsored by the nonprofit Philanthropy U.