Ethical Dilemma 3: Privacy

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Ethical Dilemma #3: Privacy
Donor privacy is an important issue that is addressed on a continual basis within the fundraising profession. With the Internet providing a wealth of information about a donor in today’s age it is important to ask the question what essential and nonessential information is needed in order for fundraising professionals to do their job?
“Privacy- Organizations should neither obtain nor retain nonessential and highly personal information about donors in their paper or electronic files. Also, care must be taken to assure that development staff members do not take information about donors with them when they change jobs. Nonprofits need to be methodical stewards of personal information in an era where privacy concerns …show more content…

Within our book, General Issues in Business Ethics, the author talks about situation ethics, and judgment calls. “Take into careful account the particularity of the persons and circumstances involved” (Donaldson & Werhane, 2008, p.72). Knowing that I can share donor information with my colleagues versus an individual outside of my department is a judgment call, which is one of the six dimensions in Aristotle’s virtue ethics. I need to know who I can and cannot disclose information too.

Ethical Dilemma #4: Stewardship Stewardship is what all individuals who give worry about. Unfortunately, there are many companies out there who do not use their donations they receive in the way they say they will. “Stewardship - Nonprofits must assure the public that the funds the organization raises are indeed being used for the purposes for which they were given. Non-profits must honor the spirit as well as the letter of donor intentions” (Burchill, 2010, p.2).

Fundraisers have a legal as well as a moral obligation to steward the donor and the gift that have been entrusted to them. Donors’ expectations are similar to what any individual would expect from investment

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