New Nonprofit Ethics Lab launches at GIC

A new Ethics Lab has been launched at the Gradel Institute of Charity.

Building on research indicating that nonprofits have distinct characteristics that influence their behaviour, the new Nonprofit Ethics Lab seeks to define and develop nonprofit ethics as a distinct field of research, education, and practice. At this stage, the Lab is conducting a systematic literature review to identify a research agenda, and input from nonprofit executives will shape an executive program. The Lab will also act as a collaborator and convener - across secular and faith-based nonprofits across the globe - to strengthen a community of practice around non-profit ethics. The Lab thus seeks to deepen the sector’s unique and vital contributions to society.

The Ethics Lab’s Director, Isabel de Bruin Cardoso, said: “As someone who moves between the worlds of research and practice in the nonprofit sector, I’ve seen first-hand how essential it is to connect and collaborate across both. The Lab grows out of that belief: that rigorous inquiry and lived experience must go hand in hand to shape ethics that are fit-for-purpose in the nonprofit sector”.