Nonprofit Group Ethical Issues

I appreciate your observation on this subject. You have raised some crucial ethical concerns such as looking at the self-interest as opposed to the target audience. Recently I was involved in a non-profit group, and we were faced with a very unethical issue. We were tasked to collaborate with another nonprofit group to care for the Haitian refugees post the earthquakes. After a year of the program, we were to conduct an evaluation and report whether the refugees were ready to return home, or should they be granted TPS based on humanitarian issues. The catch was if we decide that the immigrant return home, then there will be a generous lump sum of money given to both organizations to ensure a smooth return. The other organization which is a well-known organization wrote a report indicating that the refugees would be better off if they were sent …show more content…
It was unbelievable to understand that they could have made such unfair, cruel statement. The refugees were transported to Tampa General Hospital because they were severely injured and underwent many amputations. They developed many complications, and in need of continuous care and physical therapy. They were wheelchair dependents learning how to survive with their current physical state. Our group decided against their proposal to the point we were forced to involve the Tampa Tribune News. Understand, this was not an immigration issue. Instead, this was a humanitarian issue and a public safety issue. According to Sutherland, Kemp & Studdet, (2016), the community should not be exposed to unsafe practice because unsafe practice such as non-meaningful contribution will not protect the public instead it will compromise the community (p. 456). With that said, we learned later that the real reason the other organization wanted to send then refugees back to Haiti was that they had a better personal plan for the lump