Association for Moral Education
The Association for Moral Education (AME) was founded in 1976 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for professionals interested in the moral dimensions of educational theory and practice. It supports self-reflective educational practices that value the worth and dignity of each individual as a moral agent in a pluralistic society. Through its program of conferences and publications, the AME serves as a resource to educators, practitioners, students, and the public in matters related to moral education and development, provides expertise on educational policies and practices, and provides information about moral education to interested parties in the general public.

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is committed to encouraging high quality interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and practical impacts of their subjects.

Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law and Society (CCELS)
Led by Cardiff Law and based at Cardiff University this virtual center connects researchers and practitioners in medicine, science, the social sciences and humanities. CCELS aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration under the three themes of Bioethics, Ethics & Society and Business & Professional Ethics. It provides a resource for policy makers, particularly within Europe, who need rapid access to expert advice, as well as a resource for researchers to address the ethics, legal and social aspects of their work.

Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics (CAAE)
CAAE is part of the Philosophy Department at Carnegie Mellon and pursues distinctive research in applied ethics and ethics education. Its mission is to help recover ethics from academic abstraction by researching and presenting ethical issues in practical settings, but with appropriate interdisciplinary perspectives and theoretical bearings.

Center for Ethics & Public Service
Founded in 1996, the Center for Ethics and Public Service at the University of Miami School of Law is an interdisciplinary project devoted to the values of ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and public service in law and society. The Center provides training in ethics and professional values to the Law School and the University as well as to the Florida business, civic, education, and legal communities.

Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security at Duke University Law School

Dartmouth Ethics Institute
The Ethics Institute exists to foster the study of applied and professional ethics throughout the Dartmouth community, both at the undergraduate level and in the professional schools.

Decisions And Ethics Center at Stanford
The Decision Analysis Program is dedicated to extending the theoretical foundations of decision analysis, increasing the effectiveness of practice, and expanding the range of application.

Ethics in Society Program at Stanford
Stanford's Ethics in Society Program brings together scholars, students, citizens and citizen activists to reflect critically about the political and moral challenges which have arisen in our collective life in the hope that such reflection can improve society: through raising the quality of deliberation, in bringing research to bear on important local, national and global problems, and by preparing students to live lives committed to the values of personal integrity and social justice. The work of the Program is guided by the idea that ethics is not merely a theoretical exercise: it must also be developed, tested, and used in our lives.

Ethics & Public Policy Center
The Ethics and Public Policy Center was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues. Its program includes research, writing, publication, and conferences.

Ethics Resource Center
This Center's mission is to be a leader and catalyst in fostering ethical practices in individuals and institutions. Goals: Inspire individuals, both children and adults, to act ethically towards one another. Inspire institutions to act ethically, recognizing their role as transmitters of values. Inspire individuals and institutions to join together in fostering ethical communities.

Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions
The Center stands at the core of what is now a well-established movement at Harvard to give ethics a prominent place in the curriculum and on the agenda of research. Through support of faculty fellowships and graduate fellowships in its ethics, as well as its public lecture series, occasional conferences, and many other events, the Center helps sustain a community of teachers and scholars dedicated to the study of practical ethics.

The International Business Ethics Institute
The Institute promotes corporate responsibility through two key program areas. First, it works to increase public awareness and dialogue about international business ethics issues through such educational resources and activities as the Roundtable Discussion Series, the International Business Ethics Review (a quarterly publication), and the Institute's multilingual website. Second, the Institute works closely with companies to assist them in establishing effective international ethics programs. The Institute is dedicated to disseminating business ethics information to demonstrate the positive, tangible changes that responsible business can generate.

The International Center for Ethics, Justice & Public Life
The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University exists to illuminate the ethical dilemmas and obligations inherent in global and professional leadership, with particular focus on the challenges of racial, ethnic, and religious pluralism. Examining responses to past conflicts, acts of intervention, and failures to intervene, the Center seeks to enable just and appropriate responses in the future. Engaging leaders and future leaders of government, business, and civil society, the Center crosses boundaries of geography and discipline to link scholarship and practice through publications, programs, and projects.

Institute for Global Ethics
The Institute for Global Ethics is an independent, nonsectarian, and nonpolitical organization dedicated to elevating public awareness and promoting the discussion of ethics in a global context. This nonprofit think tank is an international, membership-based organization focusing on ethical activities for corporations, educators, professionals, and communities.

Josephson Institute of Ethics
The Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics is a public-benefit, nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization founded by Michael Josephson in honor of his parents to improve the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decision-making.

Kennedy Institute of Ethics
The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics was established at Georgetown University in 1971 as a teaching and research center to offer moral and ethical perspectives on major policy issues. It is the largest university-based group of scholars in the world devoted to research and teaching in biomedical ethics and other fields of applied ethics. The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature is housed here.

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
The mission of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University is to heighten ethical awareness and improve ethical decision-making on campus and in the coummunity at large. The Center supports innovative teaching, research, and community programs in applied ethics and uses the perspectives of different disciplines to help decision-makers devise practical strategies for resolving the ethical and value questions confronting them.

Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs
The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs provides coordination and support for research, teaching and scholarly discussion of ethics, moral and political philosophy, and the ethical dimensions of public and professional life across academic disciplines and professional schools.

Ohio University - Institute for Applied & Professional Ethics
The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics at Ohio University exists to support and stimulate teaching, research, and interest in the area of applied and professional ethics.

Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions
The Poynter Center promotes moral deliberation about developments in science and technology, the provision of health care, the aims of higher education, the duties of corporate responsibility, and the challenges of democratic life and culture. Critical reflection about the meaning of rights, community, justice, diversity, power, and virtue provide the more general terms for much of the Center's inquiry.

Practical Ethics Center
The Practical Ethics Center was created in 1996 at The University of Montana-Missoula to promote high quality teaching, research and service in applied and professional ethics and to promote sophisticated discussions concerning matters of ethics in public life among professionals, leaders and citizens through projects and programs that serve community needs and encourage public dialogue.

Princeton University - Center for Human Values
The University Center for Human Values aims to support ethical inquiry into many disciplines, by making explicit what is sometimes an implicit interest, and by furthering interdisciplinary evaluations of both individual decisions and institutional practices.

The Society for Ethics
The Society for Ethics (SE) promotes philosophical research in ethics, broadly construed, including areas such as (but not limited to) ethical theory, moral, social and political philosophy, as well as areas of applied ethics such as (but not limited to) legal, business and medical ethics.

Stein Center for Law & Ethics
A principle function of the Stein Center is to provide a forum to examine issues concerning legal ethics and public interest law.

St. James Ethics Centre
St. James Ethics Centre is a fully independent not-for-profit organisation which provides a non-judgemental forum for the promotion and exploration of ethics. The Centre works with business, professions, community groups, governments and individuals to encourage and assist them to include the ethical dimension in their daily lives ... and help to create a better world.

University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
The Center's mission is to advance scholarly and public understanding of ethical, legal, social and public policy issues in health care.

Values Institute
The principal aim of the Values Institute is to provide a place where people can come together for the thoughtful discussion of troubling moral issues. The Institute seeks to provide such a place for members of the immediate university community (students, faculty, administration, and alumni), for members of the local San Diego community, and for the larger national and international communities of students and scholars. Activities include courses, lectures, seminars, workshops, and conferences, both on campus and on the World Wide Web.

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