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New Ethics Tool Available for Fund Raisers - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: New Ethics Tool Available for Fund Raisers

September 29, 2011, 9:35 am

By Maria Di Mento

Fund raisers now have a new online tool available to figure out whether they give ethical issues enough priority and to measure how well their organization does in treating donors ethically.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals says that the tool—called the AFP Ethics Assessment Inventory—will help fund raisers identify steps they can take to do better in conforming to fund-raising codes of ethics. The tool asks fund raisers to gauge their accountability, courage, integrity, and whether they operate in a transparent and trustworthy manner.