Ethics Scenario #85: Historic Preservation Society of Harristown County
This ethics scenario focuses on a CEO of a nonprofit accepting a large donation from a donor whose actions are typically the target of intense opposition by the organization.
View ArticleEthical Scenario #84: Pennsylvania Heart Disease Education Fundation
This considers the ethics of a lucrative cause marketing agreement endorsing a sugary cereal when there are questions about whether endorsing this product is consistent with the mission of the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #83: Schoolhouse Fire Tragedy Fundraising
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical to establish a charity to benefit one's own family that was victimized by a disaster.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #82: American Disaster Relief Fund
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical to fundraise for specific disasters, but not commit to using funds raised through this fundraising for that specific disaster by not clearly...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #81: Amazing Grace Thrift Shop
This scenario considers whether it is ethical for volunteers at a thrift shop to purchase new items received by the shop before these items are made available to the general public.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #80: Women's Advocacy Center of Harristown
This ethics scenario deals with a new organization president who finds that her organization has not been complying with reporting requirements and decides not to "open a can of worms" and put the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #79: Citizens Vote Project
This ethics scenario explores whether it is ethical for a grantee to choose a grant evaluator who is her best friend.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #78: Summer Dreams Foundation
This ethical scenario looks at whether it is ethical to hide unrelated business income from the Internal Revenue Service so more services can be provided by the organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #77: Montrose Association of Nonprofit Organizations
This ethics scenario considers the ethics aspects of a spouse using the office of a nonprofit organization for activities that support her husband's candidacy for public office.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #76: Harristown University
This ethics scenario deals with the issue of nonprofit staff using frequent flier miles for personal use that were accumulated from work-related travel.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #75: Quad Fundraising Services
This ethics scenario examines the ethics of hiring a for-profit fundraiser who provides minimal contributions back to the organization after deducting expenses and fees.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #74: Friends of the Kraft Lake Nature Center
This ethics scenario considers a situation where a nonprofit organization CEO starts a romantic relationship with his administrative assistant.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #73:Health Research Consortium
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of not notifying a grantmaker when two key research employees funded by the grant have left the organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #72: Harristown Wildlife Protection Association
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for the board of a nonprofit organization to accept the offer of the board chairman to have his company provide a public relations campaign for the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #71:RFM Counseling Center
This ethics scenario looks at the case of a therapist at a nonprofit human services agency who decides to go into private practice and sends a letter inviting her clients from the agency to continue...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #70: Heartland Hospital
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a hospital with a federal charitable tax exemption behaving in a manner to generate as much revenue and providing as little charity as possible.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #69:The Anti-Racist Society
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical to continue to aggressively fundraise when the nonprofit organization has enough assets to cover all of its expenses in the foreseeable future.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #68: Gantry Institution
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a staff member of a nonprofit organization to keep speaking fees he receives for speaking about topics that directly relate to his job.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #67: The Grobman Foundation
This ethics scenario looks at whether it is ethical for a CEO to fire a fundraiser who engages in ethical fundraising and replace him with someone whose tactics may not be so ethical, but who is likely...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #66: Brochton Medical Center
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a development officer for a nonprofit organization to reward his staff with incentives to close major gifts, including providing...
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