Ethics Scenario #45: Harristown Futures Fund
This ethics scenario examines the ethics of a philanthropist creating his own charity to fund a particular pet project. He appoints a board consisting of his relatives to assure that all decisions of...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #44: Harristown Early Music Consort
This ethics scenario looks at a creator of a musical group who sets up a nonprofit corporation for the group with the board consisting of all of the musicians, and who receive all of the net revenue...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #43: Monessen Falls Dance Studio
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of not hiring a staff member solely because he is not gay.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #42: Wildwood Day Care Center
This ethics scenario looks at a situation where a very devout executive director engages in behavior that makes many of her staff uncomfortable.
View ArticleEthic Scenario #41: Lakeside University--Harristown
This ethical scenario looks at the ethics of a college professor who accepts a consulting job from one of his students.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #40: Women's Education Network of North Dakota
This ethics scenario looks at the spending habits of an executive director at a conference who is charging personal expenses to the organization's credit card on her work-related trip.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #39: Kessler Chocolate Foundation
This ethics scenario focuses on a former state legislator who serves on both a corporate board and the board of its charitable foundation, and votes to increase his salary for serving on the charitable...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #38: Harristown Running Club
This ethics scenario focuses on an organization with a board that is not very diverse, and which schedules a pig roast fundraiser on a major Jewish holiday.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #37: Harristown Energy Assistance Fund
This ethical scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization CEO beginning a romantic relationship with the Treasurer of the board of his organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #36: Tyne Foundation
This ethics scenario looks at the situation of a nonprofit organization fundraiser who makes plans to write his memoirs about his service with the organization, and might disclose some embarrassing...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #35: Harristown Chamber of Commerce
This ethics scenario looks at a situation where the executive director is asking her staff to do personal tasks for her so she can devote more time to the work of the organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #34: Harristown Family and Children's Service
This ethics scenario looks at a newly elected treasurer of a nonprofit organization who makes a motion to move the organization's accounts to the bank at which he serves as a Vice President.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #33: Johnson City Hospital
This ethics scenario looks at a staff member of a hospital with bountiful resources who methodically siphons off supplies and transfers them to a less well-heeled nonprofit community health center, for...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #32: Coalition for Women's Survival
This ethics scenario is about an executive director who dutifully prepares a budget for her board to approve, and then perfunctorily ignores it, making spending decisions based on what she feels is in...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #31: Jewish Advocacy Center
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of an executive director ignoring a board resolution that would require the organization's funds to be placed in what the staff member feels is a risky investment.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #30: Harrelson University
This ethics scenario looks at a development officer who helps a disabled donor sign papers making a major new pledge because she feels without such help, he would be unable to make the donation either...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #29: Kidney Disease Research Foundation
This ethics scenario looks at a staff member of a charity who uses the charity's database to identify potential donors to send a fundraising letter to raise funds for another charity with which he is a...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #28: Harristown Wildlife Preservation Foundation
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit wildlife preservation organization accepting a corporate donation from a company that is a likely polluter of wildlife habitat.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #27: Harristown Musical Association
This ethics scenario looks at a for-profit/non-profit partnership in which the nonprofit organization solicits for charitable donations of cars, and the for-profit provides a minimal percent of the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #26: Jewish Community Center
This ethics scenario looks at an organization that provides a substantiation letter to a donor that fails to indicate that the "donation" was really a purchase of goods and services in exchange for an...
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