Cultivating Trust, Transparency the Key to Ethical Fundraising, Lecturer Says
As managing director of a leading fundraising and social impact consulting firm, lecturer Mary Doorley-Simboski understands how vital it is to maintain total integrity in nonprofit development, especially given the ongoing concern of donor skepticism. As she teaches in her course, Capital Campaigns (MET AR 711), a core component to the Fundraising Management Graduate Certificate curriculum, meeting ethical responsibilities and providing honest, complete information is paramount.
In an article featured in the Major Gifts Report newsletter, Doorley-Simboski laid out her six parameters for ethical fundraising, which begin with addressing potential issues head-on, and include being as transparent as possible.
Read the article, “Give Thought to Ethical Codes of Conduct,” through BU’s Wiley Online Library.