Ethics Scenario #98: Harristown Home for the Aged
This ethics scenario looks at whether it is ethical for a staff member of a health care facility to request special treatment relating to her mother's admission to the facility.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #97: Hospital and Health Center of Greenstown
This scenario looks at the ethics of posting private information about clients on a restricted social media page, and the ethics of firing a staff member who does this.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #96: Pennsylvania Privacy Watch
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization CEO friending her staff on Facebook.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #95: Wilson Sports Hall of Fame
This ethics scenario focuses on the ethical implications of a nonprofit organization staff member's increasing use of the Internet for personal use, including playing games and posting on Facebook,...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #94: Race to Cure Bladder Cancer
This case considers the ethical implications of a charity race director taking home unused food for personal use following the event.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #93: National Association of Economics Professors and...
This ethics scenario looks at the ethics of a nonprofit organization CEO who uncovers an employee embezzling funds, but fires him quietly without reporting the crime to law enforcement authorities.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #92: Children and Family Futures Foundation
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of skirting federal and state lobbying laws while promoting the agenda of a nonprofit organization by engaging in activities that directly influence legislators.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #91: Harristown City Museum
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a museum curator who takes surplus valuable art pieces owned by the museum and displays them in her own home while documenting her actions in the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #90: Harristown Area Community College
This scenario considers the ethics of a development officer of a nonprofit using the resources of her organization to compile information about potential donors for another organization with which she...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #89: Save Our Guns Foundation
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a nonprofit advocacy organization to distribute voting record materials a week before the election detailing the voting records of elected...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #88: Charitable Gift Annuity Case
This ethics scenario considers the ethics of a planned giving staff member who uses to his advantage information he learns from one of his colleagues with another organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #87: Save the Wildlife Fund of Harristown
This ethics scenario considers whether the CEO of a nonprofit who schedules meetings with staff to discuss their donations to the organization is ethical when he purposely does this just prior to his...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #86: Wild City Foundation
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical for a departing development officer to take with him donor information with him as he leaves for a new position with another organization.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #85: Historic Preservation Society of Harristown County
This ethics scenario focuses on a CEO of a nonprofit accepting a large donation from a donor whose actions are typically the target of intense opposition by the organization.
View ArticleEthical Scenario #84: Pennsylvania Heart Disease Education Fundation
This considers the ethics of a lucrative cause marketing agreement endorsing a sugary cereal when there are questions about whether endorsing this product is consistent with the mission of the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #83: Schoolhouse Fire Tragedy Fundraising
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical to establish a charity to benefit one's own family that was victimized by a disaster.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #82: American Disaster Relief Fund
This ethics scenario considers whether it is ethical to fundraise for specific disasters, but not commit to using funds raised through this fundraising for that specific disaster by not clearly...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #81: Amazing Grace Thrift Shop
This scenario considers whether it is ethical for volunteers at a thrift shop to purchase new items received by the shop before these items are made available to the general public.
View ArticleEthics Scenario #80: Women's Advocacy Center of Harristown
This ethics scenario deals with a new organization president who finds that her organization has not been complying with reporting requirements and decides not to "open a can of worms" and put the...
View ArticleEthics Scenario #79: Citizens Vote Project
This ethics scenario explores whether it is ethical for a grantee to choose a grant evaluator who is her best friend.
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