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 Saikat Ray successfully completed the 7-week online course "Essentials of Nonprofit Strategy". The course provided an overview on how to identify 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.