Ethics 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...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #5: State Association to Abate Women's Domestic Violence
This ethics scenario looks at the case of a board member who advocates for the addition of a particular service, and then is asked, and agrees, to engage in a for-profit/nonprofit partnership to help...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #4: State Track and Field Championship, Inc.
This ethics scenario deals with a case of a nonprofit organization CEO who hires his son as the assistant director, and is grooming him to be the CEO when he retires.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #3: Midtown Bar Association Library
This ethics scenario focuses on a nonprofit organization staff member who justifies charging the organization for some expenses of having her family accompany her to a professional conference.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #2: Harristown Hospice Services
This ethics scenario looks at whether it is ethics for an employee of a nonprofit organization to use an organizational vehicle for personal use.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #1: State Association of Veterans Organizations
This ethics scenario looks at whether it is unethical not to report a colleague at a nonprofit organization who appears to be stealing supplies from the organization.
View ArticleWelcome to the Nonprofit Ethics Education Pages
These pages include the full text of the book Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations, by Gary M. Grobman. As this site is developed, we will be providing original and previously published material in the...
View ArticleNavigating a Dual Relationship at the Public Interest Policy Center-- Case Study
Navigating a Dual Relationship at the Public Interest Policy Center
View ArticleJane's Dilemma--Hiring the Development Director--Case Study
This case relates to a nonprofit organization executive director who is interviewing an individual for a fundraising position whom she knows engages in unethical fundraising practices.
View ArticleInternational Social Work at Touro College Graduate School of Social Work...
Touro College Graduate School of Social Work Community Day in Fall 2013 focused on international social work.
View Article2014 Social Work New Year's Resolutions
The New Social Worker magazine asked social workers to share their new year's resolutions for 2014.
View ArticleBook Review: Witness to Resilience
Book review of Witness to Resilience: Stories of Intimate Violence
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