Ethics Scenario 105: Coalition to Supress Gun Violence
This considers whether it is ethical and/or legal for a 501(c)(4) to create a 501(c)(3) solely for the purpose of raising money for the c(4)'s activities and to provide a tax deduction to donors that...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #104: Pennsylvania Sports Legislative Exchange
This scenario looks at the ethics of using organizational funds to pay for personal expenses when those expenses are marginally related to the mission of the organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #103: The Best Time of Your Life Retirement Community
This scenario deals with the ethics of requiring a donation up front to an assisted living facility in exchange for preferential treatment in avoiding a waiting list for admission.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #102: Harristown Employment and Vocational Service
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization accepting gifts for helping a client.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #101: People's Voting Project
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a CEO enforcing a new policy banning nose rings that was never considered by the organization's board, and the employee complaining by sending an email to...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #100: Community Health and Human Services of Harristown County
This scenario looks at whether it is ethical for a nonprofit employee who deals with a diverse group of clients to have lots of religious items decorating her office cubicle.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #99: Having a Dream Foundation
This scenario looks at whether it is ethical for a organization leader seeking a large donation to accept a date from a wealthy donor with the hope of increasing his gift to the organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #98: Harristown Home for the Aged
This ethics scenario looks at whether it is ethical for a staff member of a health care facility to request special treatment relating to her mother's admission to the facility.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #97: Hospital and Health Center of Greenstown
This scenario looks at the ethics of posting private information about clients on a restricted social media page, and the ethics of firing a staff member who does this.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #96: Pennsylvania Privacy Watch
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization CEO friending her staff on Facebook.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #95: Wilson Sports Hall of Fame
This ethics scenario focuses on the ethical implications of a nonprofit organization staff member's increasing use of the Internet for personal use, including playing games and posting on Facebook,...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #94: Race to Cure Bladder Cancer
This case considers the ethical implications of a charity race director taking home unused food for personal use following the event.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #93: National Association of Economics Professors and...
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization CEO who uncovers an employee embezzling funds, but fires him quietly without reporting the crime to law enforcement authorities.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #92: Children and Family Futures Foundation
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of skirting federal and state lobbying laws while promoting the agenda of a nonprofit organization by engaging in activities that directly influence legislators.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #91: Harristown City Museum
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a museum curator who takes surplus valuable art pieces owned by the museum and displays them in her own home while documenting her actions in the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #90: Harristown Area Community College
This scenario considers the ethics of a development officer of a nonprofit using the resources of her organization to compile information about potential donors for another organization with which she...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #89: Save Our Guns Foundation
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a nonprofit advocacy organization to distribute voting record materials a week before the election detailing the voting records of elected...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #88: Charitable Gift Annuity Case
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a planned giving staff member who uses to his advantage information he learns from one of his colleagues with another organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #87: Save the Wildlife Fund of Harristown
This ethics scenario considers whether the CEO of a nonprofit who schedules meetings with staff to discuss their donations to the organization is ethical when he purposely does this just prior to his...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #86: Wild City Foundation
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a departing development officer to take with him donor information with him as he leaves for a new position with another organization.
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