Promoting Ethical Collaboration 
The Center for Business Ethics sees great opportunities in collaborative efforts to promote ethical business practices. Since its foundation in 1976, CBE has facilitated the development and expansion of a worldwide network of organizations and individuals who seek to advance ethical excellence in business.
1. Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Alpha Kappa Psi is a professional business fraternity with chapters at more than 200 of the top universities in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1904 to support the growing need for formal business education at universities and to educate future business executives in leadership and professional ethics. Through this partnership the Center for Business Ethics (CBE) has access to the membership of Alpha Kappa Psi for purposes of promoting ethics and the Center’s programs, and in turn CBE is committed to supporting Alpha Kappa Psi in promoting its programs and providing the fraternity with speakers as well as materials pertaining to ethics education.
Link to Alpha Kappa Psi Website
2. Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA)
Back in 1991, CBE was the “facilitating institution” that led to the creation of what would become the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA) with Dr. Hoffman, CBE’s founding Executive Director, serving as the ECOA’s first Executive Director for five years and then as Advisor to the ECOA Board for ten years. From the beginning, the two organizations have worked closely to help in the advancement and professionalization of the corporate ethics movement. Emblematic of this partnership has been the annual “Managing Ethics in Organizations (MEO)” course that is co-hosted by the two organizations. MEO is the leading executive education course for those seeking to advance their expertise in the professional management of ethics in organizations.
Link to ECOA Website
3. Institute for Ethics in Communication and Organizations (IECO)
With strong connections to many Spanish universities and scholars, the recently founded Institute for Ethics in Communication and Organizations (IECO) based in Valencia, Spain, promises to be one of the leading business ethics research institutes in Europe. CBE and IECO have agreed to share their facilities in order to promote research in the areas of business ethics and corporate social responsibility. Both centers have agreed to make their facilities mutually accessible to PhD candidates, post-doctoral students, professors and executives as visiting scholars. In this way they will make available the use of their respective libraries and other resources in the service of advancing the users academic and professional careers and to further the advancement of the business ethics movement generally.
Link to IECO Website
4. PeaceTones
PeaceTones is an initiative of the non-profit Internet Bar Organization (IBO) whose primary objective is to legally empower individuals and communities using education and technology. Applying a social enterprise model, PeaceTones focuses on empowering musicians specifically in developing communities. Musicians are our focus group because they are often an exploited profession, but also hold a unique position in most societies with their ability to transcend socio-economic and cultural differences and speak to all the people of a community. We therefore engage musicians, particularly in post-conflict and post-disaster communities, where Rule of Law and access to legal resources are particularly fragile, and teach them through workshops and continued mentorship, the legal, marketing and social justice aspects of being musicians in the twenty first century. We then distribute their work internationally through online music sales platforms such as iTunes and Amazon.com, and through in-person sales in the United States through PeaceTones events. Ninety percent of all album profits go directly to the musicians and a community development project of their choosing. One requirement of all PeaceTones artists, in keeping with our focus on economic sustainability and social justice, is that musicians choose a development project within their communities to contribute some of their PeaceTones income towards. While the percentage of income is their choice, we have found our musicians overwhelmingly choose to contribute over fifty percent of their album income to a development project close to their hearts. With initial support from the World Justice Project, PeaceTones has worked in Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Haiti (both in Balan and Port-au-Prince).
More information on PeaceTones can be found at www.peacetones.org