Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy, + Website: A Guide to Ethical Decision Making and Regulation for Nonprofit Organizations: 204 (The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118487575 ISBN 13: 9781118487570

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

Practical tools and techniques to incorporate ethical standards and practices in nonprofit fundraising

Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy is a helpful and inspiring resource for nonprofits large and small, young and mature, local and international. The insightful guidance and case studies found within these pages will help you understand how to address specific ethical issues within your nonprofit and leave plenty of food for thought and discussion.

• Adds new materials on new business practice codes, the Ethics Assessment Inventory, coverage of new ethics standards
• Now includes an ethics assessment tool on the Ethical Fundraising, Second Edition companion website
• Considers essential topics including: appearance of impropriety, rights of donors, tainted money, using donations as intended, choosing a leadership role, ethical decision-making, restoring public confidence in the nonprofit sector, and the ethics of grant making and grant seeking
• Written by luminaries in the field of ethics in fundraising
• Explores a topic that all professional fundraisers must engage with in order to build the trust and confidence of the giving public
• Offers an invaluable collection of essays based on the rich experience of philanthropic leaders
• Presents wise reflections on the central role of ethics in fundraising

Featuring contributions from a host of well-known and respected senior-level fundraising professionals, several of whom are members of the AFP Ethics Committee, Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy features a wealth of practical tools to help fundraising practitioners, board members, and governing boards implement these essential concepts into their own organizations.

About this title

About the Author

JANICE GOW PETTEY, EDD, CFRE, is Vice President of Resource Development at The Asia Foundation. She is the founder of J.G. Pettey & Associates, a consulting firm serving foundations and nonprofits. Her ethics presentations span three continents. She is Chair Emeritus of AFP's International Ethics Committee. Janice is also the author of Cultivating Diversity in Fundraising and Ethical Fundraising: A Guide for Nonprofit Boards and Fundraisers (Wiley).

From the Back Cover

Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy

A GUIDE TO ETHICAL DECISION MAKING AND REGULATION FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

With increased scrutiny of nonprofits from government, the media, and the public, it's critical that charities not only abide by the highest ethical standards, but also avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Simply put without public trust, fundraising can't happen. Written for practitioners by practitioners, Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy deals with the importance of ethics to the fundraising profession and addresses the ethical decisions boards and fundraisers make and the ethical dilemmas they face.

Featuring chapters written by highly experienced members of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) International Ethics Committee or senior members in the field of philanthropy, Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy offers a wealth of practical tools to help fundraising practitioners, board members, nonprofit leaders, and donors implement the book's concepts. It covers:

• Conflict of interest from organizational and individual perspectives
• Coverage of new ethics standards
• The rights of donors through the use of the Donor Bill of Rights
• Compensation as an ethical dilemma
• Ethical decision making
• Ethics assessment inventory
• New business practice codes
• Using donations as intended
• Honesty and full disclosure
• Ethics from a global perspective
• The moral framework of philanthropy as a public practice and philanthropic fundraising as a vocation or calling

Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy is a practical, helpful, and ultimately inspiring resource for nonprofits large and small, new and mature, local and international. The insightful guidance and case studies found within these pages will help fundraising and nonprofit professionals understand how to address specific issues and leaves plenty of food for thought and discussion.

From the Inside Flap

Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy

A GUIDE TO ETHICAL DECISION MAKING AND REGULATION FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

With increased scrutiny of nonprofits from government, the media, and the public, it's critical that charities not only abide by the highest ethical standards, but also avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Simply put—without public trust, fundraising can't happen. Written for practitioners by practitioners, Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy deals with the importance of ethics to the fundraising profession and addresses the ethical decisions boards and fundraisers make and the ethical dilemmas they face.

Featuring chapters written by highly experienced members of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) International Ethics Committee or senior members in the field of philanthropy, Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy offers a wealth of practical tools to help fundraising practitioners, board members, nonprofit leaders, and donors implement the book's concepts. It covers:

• Conflict of interest from organizational and individual perspectives
• Coverage of new ethics standards
• The rights of donors through the use of the Donor Bill of Rights
• Compensation as an ethical dilemma
• Ethical decision making
• Ethics assessment inventory
• New business practice codes
• Using donations as intended
• Honesty and full disclosure
• Ethics from a global perspective
• The moral framework of philanthropy as a public practice and philanthropic fundraising as a vocation or calling

Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy is a practical, helpful, and ultimately inspiring resource for nonprofits large and small, new and mature, local and international. The insightful guidance and case studies found within these pages will help fundraising and nonprofit professionals understand how to address specific issues and leaves plenty of food for thought and discussion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118487575
• ISBN 13: 9781118487570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Pettey Janice Gow