Rogare Fundraising Ethics White Paper

Fundraising’s professional ethics consist of applied ethics   formulated in its various codes of practice. These tell fundraisers what they may or may not do. But there is very little in the way of normative ethics underpinning the codes of practice. Normative ethics would help fundraisers understand why they may or may not carry out certain practices. For such a fundamental topic, there has been very little theory development of normative fundraising ethics. From what has been written, it is possible to glean four sets of ideas that can lay claim to being normative theories of fundraising ethics.

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