A fundraiser’s guide to ethical decision-making

Michael J. Rosen, 2005

DOI: 10.4324/9781003145936-75

True development professionals want to behave ethically. Most believe they are already behaving ethically and striving to make correct choices. However, great challenges stand in the way between the desire to make ethical decisions and the ability to actually do so. Extreme goal pressures, lack of experience, dilemmas without clear solutions, superiors who do not understand fundraising and the ethical standards associated with it, and other complications conspire to complicate the life of even the most ethical of fundraisers. The unfortunate result can be less than ideal decisions that are difficult to justify and which keep a nonprofit organization ...

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