Organizational Ethics Helpful Links

General

American Society of Association Executives
http://www.asaenet.org/
Provides a wealth of resources designed to enhance their clients' professional performance.

Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/
The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions was established in 1976 at the Illinois Institute of Technology. It's stated purpose is to promote research and teaching on practical moral problems in the professions. The first interdisciplinary center for ethics to focus on the professions, CSEP is known for its work on ethics in engineering and science and in related areas of business.

CSEP promotes innovative teaching. It generated professional ethics courses at IIT and assists faculty at other universities to prepare for teaching professional ethics and to develop courses and programs. CSEP's Ethics Across the Curriculum project, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, prepares instructors to integrate ethics in ordinary courses. The project includes workshops for IIT faculty, professional society representatives concerned with continuing education, and faculty from other institutions.

EthicsWorld
http://www.EthicsWorld.org
A forum for business ethics articles and new articles on corporate social responsibility, basic corporate governance and corporation corruption.

Families and Work Institute
http://www.familiesandwork.org/
Group which acts as a national clearinghouse for information on work/family issues.

Kenan Ethics Program
http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/
Duke University program which encourages ethical behavior among Duke faculty and students in all facets of Duke life academic and in the community.

Woodhull Institute
http://www.woodhull.org/
Not-for-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian educational organization that provides ethical leadership training and professional development for women.

Government

City Ethics
http://www.cityethics.org/
CityEthics.com is the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws project to spearhead the development of municipal ethics programs across the U.S and to help cities govern ethically.

Code of Conduct for United States Judges
http://www.uscourts.gov/guide/vol2/ch1.html
Code of conduct that applies to United States Circuit Judges, District Judges, Court of International Trade Judges, Court of Federal Claims Judges, Bankruptcy Judges, and Magistrate Judges.

Codes of Conduct for Judicial Employees
http://www.uscourts.gov/guide/vol2/ch2.html
Contains the Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees and the Code of Conduct for Federal Public Defender Employees.

Committee for Economic Development
http://www.ced.org/
Organization which works with academic advisors to formulate recommendations for public policy in international and national government, education and urban development.

Council on Governmental Ethics Laws
http://www.cogel.org/
Professional organization for government agencies, organizations, and individuals with responsibilities or interests in governmental ethics, elections, campaign finance, lobby laws and freedom of information

FirstGov.gov
http://www.firstgov.gov/
Free web service, enabling the global community to easily and rapidly find U.S. government information that has been posted on the Internet. Has a powerful search engine and an index of web-accessible government information and services.
See Jerry Brown's review at http://www.ethics.org/resources/article_detail.cfm?ID=813

Government Accountability Project
http://www.whistleblower.org/
Nonprofit whose mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists

House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
http://www.house.gov/ethics
Committee Members, the House Ethics Rules and Manual, the Financial Disclosure Form, other forms, press releases, advisories, campaign, gift and travel booklets and links.

International Institute for Public Ethics
http://www.iipe.org/
Professional association for practitioners and scholars working in the field of public sector ethics, whose objective is to develop an international and professional community of public sector ethicists, and to offer support for scholars and practitioners

National Conference of State Legislatures: Center for Ethics in Government
http://www.ncsl.org/Default.aspx?TabID=746&tabs=1116,84,204#1116
Organized in 1999 to address the loss of public trust and confidence in representative democracy in America, the center works to create awareness within the public sector and advocacy community for the importance of ethics and ethical behavior.

Public Agenda
http://www.publicagenda.org/
Organization which helps leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues and to help citizens understand critical policy issues so they can make their own more informed and thoughtful decisions.

Senate Select Committee on Ethics
http://ethics.senate.gov
Provides access to Committee Members, the Senate Ethics Manual, the downloadable Public Financial Disclosure Form, additional downloadable forms, updates and notices and links to related websites.

United States Office of Government Ethics
http://www.usoge.gov/
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) provides overall policy leadership for executive branch departments and agencies in the conduct of their ethics programs.

Professional

American Bar Association
http://www.abanet.org
Professional organization for attorneys. Includes Model Rules of Professional Conduct at http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/model_rules.html

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
http://www.aicpa.org/
Professional organization for accountants. Includes code of professional conduct at http://www.aicpa.org/about/code/index.htm

American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org
Professional organization for physicians. Includes Code of Medical Ethics at http://www.ama-assn.org/apps/pf_online/pf_online?f_n=browse&n_p=T&&s_t=&...

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/
Sponsors an annual meeting, workshops, publications, and networking (including a listserv) in all areas of practical and professional ethics.

Care and Health
http://www.careandhealth.com/
On-line resource for people in the care sector has a database of all UK approved social work courses, extensive policy and law references, a sector specific care jobs service, daily news, features on professional practice.

Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions
http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/
Center for the advancement of teaching and research on ethical issues in public life.

National Society of Professional Engineers
http://www.nspe.org
Professional organization for engineers. Includes code of ethics at http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/index.html

Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
http://poynter.indiana.edu/
Research interests include the human genome project, teaching ethics, ethics in science, medical ethics, and ethics in the professions and in professional education.

The SAIP Institute at the University of St. Thomas, Opus College of Business, Minneapolis, MN
http://www.stthomas.edu/saip
Fostering ethically responsible business conduct by promoting and developing the Self-Assessment and Improvement Process (SAIP), a tool that enables organizations to appraise and enhance their performance on questions of corporate ethics, governance, and social responsibility.

W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/
Lists sites of interest to people doing research in the various branches of applied ethics -- includes health care, professional, business, media, technology, research,and public sector, and links to organizations, publications, codes, courses, more.

Commercial

Accounting Ethics: Rigos Professional Ethics Courses
http://www.accountingethics.com/
Rigos offers a family of ethics related NASBA- approved CPE programs, available in self-study or live workshop sessions.

ProEthics, Ltd.
http://www.proethics.com
Professional ethics training and consulting firm operating on the principle that ethical practices arise from well-developed ethical standards and analytical ability. Courses use hypotheticals to reconnect the practice of ethics to practical realities.

Social Responsibility

Boston College Center for Corporate Community Relations
http://www.bcccc.net/
Center which helps serve corporations committed to community involvement and corporate social responsibility.

Business for Social Responsibility
http://www.bsr.org/
Global non-profit partners with member companies to pursue commercial success in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the environment. Provides resources, advisory services, networking and collaborative opportunities.

Council on Economic Priorities
no current website
Group which conducts research on corporate social responsibility, national security, and the environment. CEP also serves as an information clearinghouse on corporate social responsibility issues, as well as military matters.

Ethical Performance
http://www.ethicalperformance.com/
Monthly newsletter for professionals with a corporate social responsibility or socially responsible investment brief.

Net Impact (formerly Students for Responsible Business)
http://faculty.msb.edu/murphydd/NetImpact/
Institute dedicated to integrating issues of social responsibility into the business school experience and their careers.

Social Investment Forum
http://www.socialinvest.org/
Forum which promotes the concept and practice of socially responsible investing.