Ethics Scenario #25: Save the Kids Foundation
This ethics scenario looks at a proposal by a for-profit fundraiser to charge a fundraising fee equal to 10% of the amount raised other than out-of-pocket expenses.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #24: Harristown Art Museum
This ethics scenario deals with an art museum that is asked to accept a donation of expensive art, provided the museum permits the donor to keep the artwork in her home until her death.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #23: Tidwell University
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a college to accept a major gift from a convicted felon.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #22: Boyleton Arts Association
This ethics scenario deals with a volunteer who loads the organization's computers with his own personal copies of business software.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #21: Computer Technology in Higher Education
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a nonprofit CEO placing restrictions on the dress of a staff member in the absence of a formal dress code.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #20: Meals on Wheels
This ethics scenario deals with a nonprofit organization executive director who purposely causes damage to an agency vehicle to collect revenue from an insurance company.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #19: Drink Responsibly Education Council
This ethics scenario deals with a nonprofit organization manager who has a staff member who confesses that she agreed to take the fall for a DUI when it was really her boyfriend who was driving the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #18: Prostate Cancer Education Fund
This ethics scenario is about a founder of a nonprofit who requires board members to make contributions and loans to the startup organization as a condition for serving on the board.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #17: Returning Warriors Help Fund
This ethics scenario looks at an organization's board president who seeks to overturn a contract between the organization and a for-profit fundraiser because he feels the for-profit is benefiting much...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #16: Harristown Housing Project
This ethics scenario looks at a situation where the CEO of a nonprofit organization is requesting a personal loan from the organization to keep him from resigning.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #15: Friar College
This ethics scenario looks at a development officer of a college who schedules a discretionary work-related trip to coincide with a personal trip to have the organization cover travel expenses.
View ArticleEthics Scenario # 14: Greenspace Wildlife Preserve
In this case, an executive director covers up a sexual harassment allegation and accepts the resignation of the alleged perpetrator with severance pay and a letter of recommendation to avoid the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #13: Outlidge Nursing Home
This ethics scenario deals with an executive director who discovers that an otherwise competent senior staffer lied on his résumé, and summarily fires him.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #12: Shaping Young Minds Day Care Center
This scenario deals with a day care CEO who discovers that a staff member is stealing and using the federally controlled medications intended for clients, and agrees to cover up the incident after the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #11: Harristown Rape Crisis Center
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of an executive director firing a staff member because a personal friend of the director is new in town and is looking for a job.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #10: Down By the Old Main Stream, Inc.
This scenario looks at a case of an executive director whosecretly diverts funds temporarily from a restricted grant to other purposes when he feels it is necessary to do so to maintain the mission of...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #9: Wildtown Nature Center
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a staff member who is tasked with developing a personnel policy for an organization downloads an existing policy she finds on the Internet of...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #8: Harrisville Family and Children's Service
This ethics scenario looks at whether it is ethical to download interesting articles from the Internet and publish them in an organization's free online newsletter without first obtaining permission.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #7: Harristown Area YMCA
This ethics scenario looks at the case of a nonprofit organization staff member who uses the organization's photocopy machine to make a handful of personal copies for use at a meeting of another...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #6: State Association of Volunteer Firefighters
This ethics scenario looks at a situation where a conference planner considers whether to suggest that a conference center where her brother is Director of Sales be chosen as the site for an upcoming...
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