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This annotated guide
is geared towards answering as many questions as possible about ethics
for nonprofit organizations. It provide links to different books on ethics,
training, universities offering degree programs in nonprofit, and tools
that can be used to address ethic issues. This site should be able to
assist anyone with questions on ethics within nonprofit, as well as outside
of the nonprofit arena.
http://www.nonprofit.utah.org/una/standards.html
Great idea to have members take an oath of ethics and standards.
This site provides a document that lays out the ethics and standards of
the organization, and employees are able to sign the oath.
http://www.ccp.ca/information/documents/ap44.htm
This site is a description of a good book citing 20 teaching cases
on ethical dilemmas facing managers and boards of non-profit organizations.
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/19990203/bookreview.html
Reviews on a collection of cases in ethics in nonprofit from the
Fannie Mae Foundation. A Collection of Cases presents 40 teaching cases
in four categories —— board activities, financial management, fundraising
and marketing, and human resources management —— that raise ethical issues
in real-world situations.
http://www.mdnonprofit.org/ethicbook.htm
A good charter that nonprofit organizations can apply for standards
for excellence. It provides an ethics and accountability code that could
be applied to just about every aspect of a nonprofit organization.
http://www.nonprofitgeorgia.org/book.html#01
This site is the Nonprofit Bookstore. The Nonprofit Bookstore offers
more than 100 nonprofit titles from basic "how-to" guides to publications
on current trends that impact the nonprofit sector. There is one book
on ethics, Fulfilling the Public Trust: Ten Ways to Help Nonprofit
Boards Maintain Accountability. This book covers four basic areas
of accountability——ways a nonprofit board carries out its responsibility
for accountability; the board's distinct role in accountability from that
of the chief executive; obstacles to carrying out these responsibilities;
and the consequences should the board fail to self-regulation.
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/business/
This site is the centre for applied ethics. It is a link to business
ethics resources on the WWW.
http://jag.itos.uga.edu/nonprofitinst/
This site is for The University Of Georgia Institute for Nonprofit
Organizations. The Institute provides an interdisciplinary group of graduate
teaching, research, and service programs at UGA that focus upon improving
the leadership and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
http://www.depaul.edu/ethics/joseph.html
This site is the Josephson Institute of Ethics. The Institute offers
customized training programs for any type of group, as well as lectures
and workshops for businesses, government agencies, organizations and community
groups. Consulting and internal ethics audits are offered for businesses
and large organizations. The Institute conducts community forums aimed
at getting local residents to acknowledge and promote core ethical values
we all share.
http://www.globalethics.org/
This site is the Institute for Global Ethics. Among other things,
the Institute for Global Ethics distributes weekly business ethics newsline
news releases. This weekly newsletter focuses on the trends, developments,
and breaking news stories about corporate ethics.
http://www.depaul.edu/ethics/gerde.html
This site is Teaching Business Ethics Through Literature. This site
provides stimulation of the moral imagination of students who enter business
ethics courses without a vocabulary, permitting them to discuss business
decisions and dilemmas in moral terms.
http://www.taknosys.com/ethics/index.htm
This site is the Ethics Center. This site has many interesting ethical
cases, case analyses, ethical problem-solving methods , and categorized
links to other ethics sites.
http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html
This site contains several topics for ethical discussion. It is intended
to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional,
that relates to ethics. This site covers a wide spectrum of ethical issues,
a ethics conference calender, and case studies.
http://www.mapnp.org/library/ethics/ethics.htm
This site has free ethics toolkit for the workplace. Subjects include
10 myths about business ethics, 10 benefits of managing ethics in the
workplace, and ethics management programs.
http://fdncenter.org/onlib/bookshelf/bernstein/text.html
This site is for the book Best Practices of Effective Nonprofit Organizations
by Philip Bernstein. This book emphasizes that nonprofit organizations
must be committed to the highest ethical standards.
http://www.pointsoflight.org/assistance/assistance_corporate_nonprofitresources.html
This site is Nonprofit resources: Organizations Promoting Corporate
& Social Responsibility. This site is a link for many nonprofit resources
such as the American Institutes for Research (AIR). This is a not-for-profit
R & D corporation which has as a major focus improvement of the quality
of life by helping organizations strengthen their internal sense of community.
http://www.cceia.org/about/mission.html
Founded in 1914 by Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Council on Ethics
and International Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization
dedicated to research and education in the field of ethics and international
affairs.
http://www.learnwell.org/ethics/
This site is the EthicsWorld Consumer and Continuing Education Ethics
Courses and Resources. This site offers free courses on ethics online.
There are a wide range of ethics topics which are mentioned within this
site.
http://caag.state.ca.us/piu/nonprofit/full_text.html
This site is What's in a Nonprofit's Name? Office of the Attorney
General. It addresses the issue of the use of partnerships between commercial
entities and nonprofit organizations to market commercial products using
the names and logos of the nonprofit organizations which is a growing
trend that raises significant legal and policy concerns.
http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/01/01.html
This site is “Can a nonprofit be a business?” It addresses the different
standards and guidelines that nonprofit organizations must abide by, and
the costly effects if the organization is not maintained within the pre-described
ethical manner.
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~rsexty/business8107/homepages/esec.htm
This site is the Ethics/Social Responsibility and Environmental Institutes
and Centres. It has many sites on the Internet relating to business ethics,
social responsibility and the environment. These sites are divided into
two groupings: one relating to ethics and social responsibility and the
other relating to the natural environment. This site makes it easy to
navigate through sites on the topics of ethics and natural environment.
http://www.usoge.gov/usoge003.html
This site is named Ethics Program Topics. It addresses topics such
as general principles, gifts from outside sources, gifts between employees,
and conflicting financial interests.
http://www.mncn.org/pnp_doc.htm
The name of this site is Principals and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) began work on nonprofit accountability
at its 1993 Annual Conference, and has continued this discussion through
focus group meetings, workshops, and discussions in Duluth, Marshall,
Rochester, Moorhead, Grand Rapids, and the Twin Cities. Under the leadership
of Dr. James P. Shannon, MCN joined with the Charities Review Council
of Minnesota and MAP for Nonprofits to collaborate on discussions of nonprofit
standards, and to promote principles of sound management and public accountability.
The committee reviewed standards, management checklists, and codes of
ethics from a variety of sources including the Charities Review Council
of Minnesota, United Way, National Society of Fundraising Executives,
Local Initiative Support Corporation, Second Harvest, and MAP for Nonprofits.
This site includes all the issues discussed at annual conferences.
http://www.usna.edu/Library/Subjeth.htm
This site is the United States Naval Academy Nimitz library. It has
links to ethics topics such as ethics center for engineering & science,
ethics connection, ethics on the world, ethics updates, institute for
global ethics, and joint services conference on professional ethics (JSCOPE)
(JSCOPE is an organization of military professionals, academics and others
formed to discuss ethical issues relevant to the military.)
Guide By Adriene
Sullivan
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