How To Support Us

ERC can further its mission only through the generous support of individuals and organizations equally committed to high ethical standards within their organizations. There are many ways to help.

Support the Effort to Share New Learning through the Annual Campaign

A donation of general support allows us to develop and implement programs that foster a more ethical culture in schools, communities and businesses, as well as conduct research to advance thinking in applied ethics.

Unrestricted contributions are combined with fee-forservice revenue to fund:

• General operating expenses and salaries;
• Resource development and outreach, including the
  ERC website and Ethics Today Online newsletter;
• Development and publishing costs for informational materials, free publications, and the annual report;
• Research and fundraising; and
  Program design and evaluation.

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Fund a Specific Project

Support Organizational Ethics Research

• Help us create and expand the next version of the National Business Ethics SurveySM (NBES).
• Engage the ERC to conduct survey research for your organization or industry.

Sponsor an ERC Whitepaper

ERC regularly issues whitepapers based upon research we conduct. For example, in 2005-2006, ERC has collected data for the development and distribution of whitepapers on the following topics:

• Industry measures from the 2005 National Business Ethics Survey
• Employee reporting of misconduct
• Indicators of effective training
• Measuring effectiveness of global ethics programs

ERC seeks sponsors for our whitepapers, enabling us to print and distribute our findings to the broader community.

Sponsor a School's Character Education Efforts.

Support from the business community sends the message that ethics matters in the workplace and that employers care about the ethics of tomorrow's workforce.

• Donate the costs of piloting the Student Ethics Office (SM) program in an individual school.
• Volunteer at a pilot school.
• Donate MAXIMize the Moment® scholarships.
• Contribute financial support to help underwrite the SEO effort.
• Support ERC Character Education efforts generally with a contribution to the Federal Government Combined Federal Campaign, designated number 2477.

Sponsor Ethics Today Online or a Portion of the Website

Contribute to Our International Projects or Partner Centers

• Underwrite a program or conference.
• Support the Global Integrity Alliance.
• Contribute funds to help develop an International Business Ethics Survey based on the NBES.

Restricted revenue supports ERC programs such as: ERC Fellows Program;

• Student Ethics OfficeSM pilot programs;
• MAXIMize the Moment® scholarships;
• International Centers; and
  National Business Ethics SurveySM (NBES).

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Engage the ERC to improve your ethics/compliance program.

Choosing ERC to conduct an ethics survey or program assessment yields multiple benefits, strengthening your organization's ethics program while adding to ERC's store of practical knowledge and research.

Donate Your DataTM

Many organizations conduct ethics and compliance surveys among their employees, ranging from a few questions in an HR questionnaire to full enterprise-wide survey efforts. But once the survey is over, what can you do with the data? As a 501(c)(3), ERC has established a means for organizations to contribute to the broader community in a unique way.

Through our new Donate Your DataTM program, organizations can donate datasets from completed ethics survey questions, removed of identifiers, to the ERC for further research. ERC will combine data with other collected datasets in order to conduct research on ethics program effectiveness and to enhance our datasets for benchmarking. Donations of datasets through the program are tax-deductible.

For more information about the Donate Your DataTM program, our use of the data and protections, please contact us at ethics@ethics.org.

To lend your support, contact ERC at ethics@ethics.org or call 202.737.2258

Ethics Resource Center is a 501(c)(3) educational charitable non-profit organization.