A Review of Professional Ethics Codes: How the AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) Code of Ethical Principles and Standards of Professional Practice Compares Introduction: In this paper, the ethical code of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) is compared with the ethical codes of five other professional organizations in order to more completely discover those areas in which the AFP Code is on solid footing with other, like organizations, as well as where the AFP …showed first 75 words of 4499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4499 total…is the primary step to endorsing an overarching Code of Ethical Practices. More work can and should be done, however, to ensure that the field of fundraising is universally known as holding the world’s highest standard of ethics. Without it, we risk the perception that fundraisers work only for self-benefit and professional non-conformity. Holding ourselves in all types, forms, and creations of fundraising to a higher standard must be the first and primary concern.