Rights-balancing fundraising ethics
Ian MacQuillin, 2019
How do you know what is and isn’t ethical in fundraising? Not only is it not an easy question but in fundraising we don’t possess nearly enough of the tools we need to be able to answer it.
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Think of an example of an ethical dilemma in fundraising … Got one?
I bet a pound to a penny most readers came up with a corporate donor that conflicts with the charity’s mission, such as a tobacco company that wants to support a cancer charity. Many books, articles and conference presentations use just such an example.
Or if you didn’t think of the mission-conflicting corporate donation, were you thinking of a particular form of fundraising that you find distasteful ...
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