Scam Highlights Abuses In Charitable Write-Offs
A recent criminal case involving wealthy donors, religious groups and secret kickbacks of donations provides an object lesson in how not to give to charity.
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How Ethical is Your Nonprofit Organization?
This article from GuideStar examines such issues as honesty, openness, conflict of interest, privacy and fundraising issues.
http://www.guidestar.org/DisplayArticle.do?articleId=827

Ethics & Accountability Code
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations developed a document entitled Standards of Excellence: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector which is available as a free download at their site.
http://www.marylandnonprofits.org/html/standards/04_02.asp

Ethics and Nonprofit Organizations
Division of Public and Nonprofit Administration at the University of Memphis published this newsletter edition that features a number of ethics resources.
http://padm.memphis.edu/connect/Connect05Spring.pdf

Ethical Standards Erode at Nonprofit Groups, Study Finds
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports on the 2007 National Nonprofit Ethics Survey.
http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=4238

Independent Sector's Checklist for Accountability
This checklist makes nine recommendations to improve the accountability and transparency of nonprofits.
http://www.independentsector.org/issues/accountability/Checklist/index.html

Nonprofit Governance, Transparency, and Ethical Standards     
The Montana Community Foundation has put together a booklet to help nonprofit leaders become familiar with legislative and sector led efforts to increase nonprofit governance, transparency, and ethical standards.
http://www.mtcf.org/pdfs/Good_Governance.pdf

Accountability
Resources for Developing a Code of Ethics
http://www.independentsector.org/issues/accountability/code_resources.html

Accountability and the Sustainable Nonprofit
This author proposes that "we must account for ourselves, something that requires each of us to exercise constant vigilance and sensitivity. It is a promise we should all make and try our best to keep. If we can keep that promise, we may even find a new path to sustainability for our organizations and the work they do."
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/tsn/tsn.jhtml?id=79800022