Ethics for Fundraisers

by Anderson, Albert B.

• ISBN13: 9780253210524
• ISBN10: 0253210526
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"The book will equip nonprofit staff and volunteers, professionals, and grantmakers with frameworks for understanding and taking principled action and preventing bad behavior." -- The Fund Raising Professional"This book displays a rare combination of philosophical sophistication and practical savvy that will distinguish it in the arenas of fundraising and nonprofit management. It is a thought-provoking analysis of the ethics of nonprofit administration."  -- Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics, University of St. Thomas"[Anderson's] thoughtful, timely, and welcome new study brings to serious practitioners a much needed and clear set of ethical principles." -- James P. Shannon, Council on Foundations"The book has the potential to become the basic primer in ethics for professional fund raisers." -- National Society of Fund Raising Executives Research Prize Jury

Author Biography

Albert Anderson is currently interim President of College Misericordia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
a Question of Responsibility	p. 1
a Matter of Principle	p. 23
Issues of Consequence and Intention	p. 46
Principled Action	p. 71
a Practitioner's Code of Ethics	p. 99
Appendix: Selected Ethical Codes, Principles, and Standards	p. 119
Notes	p. 135
Index	p. 147
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