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Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Practice includes:
• ethical theory and its practical application to common ethical issues in nonprofit organizations and additional chapters on ethics in fundraising, nonprofit governance, nonprofit financial management, grantsmanship ethics, and ethics in personnel management
• additional chapters on transparency and accountability, lying and deception, codes of ethics, and ethical standards in associations of nonprofit organization professionals (all new to the 3rd edition)
• 10 highly readable case studies with discussion questions
• 120 fictional ethical scenarios that illustrate common (and some not so common) ethical challenges and ethical dilemmas that are faced by nonprofit organizations
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by David Horton Smith.........................................................................................5
Preface to the First Edition............................................................................................. 9
Acknowledgments....................................................................................................... 18
Chapter 1. Introduction to Ethics ................................................................................. 18
Chapter 2. Introduction to Nonprofit Ethics..................................................................... 37
Chapter 3. Transparency and Accountability....................................................................49
Chapter 4. Lying and Deception.....................................................................................61
Chapter 5. Ethics in Fundraising.....................................................................................71
Chapter 6. Ethics in Governance ....................................................................................79
Chapter 7. Ethics in Financial Management.......................................................................89
Chapter 8. Ethics in Grants Management........................................................................103
Chapter 9. Ethics in Personnel Management....................................................................107
Chapter 10 Codes of Ethics...........................................................................................113
Chapter 11. Ethics Standards in Associations of Nonprofit Professionals...............................121
Case 1. Jane’s Dilemma—Hiring the Development Director................................................129
Case 2. Evaluating Dr. Luddite, Harristown Asperger’s
Syndrome Foundation Executive Director...............................................................135
Case 3. Navigating a Dual Relationship at the Public Interest
Policy Center......................................................................................................143
Case 4. Gambling on an Outside Fundraising Consultant
for the “For the Kids” Shelter................................................................................153
Case 5. Reporting Financial Misconduct at
Uncommon Agenda.............................................................................................161
Case 6. Public Relations Dilemma at the Harristown Hospital
and Health System..............................................................................................167
Case 7. The State Volunteer Firefighters
Association’s Dilemma.........................................................................................173
Case 8. The One (Wo)Man Band Running the Kenmore
Midget Baseball League.......................................................................................179
Case 9. The Professor’s Farewell....................................................................................185
Case 10. Doctoring the Résumé—Giving the Third Degree
to the Director of Research at SCRC......................................................................195
Nonprofit Ethics Scenarios.............................................................................................204
Keyword Index.............................................................................................................248
About the Author..........................................................................................................255