How CEBA is Organized:

COLORADO BUSINESS IN ETHICS ALLIANCE (CEBA)
COMMITTEE OVERVIEW 04/05

The Colorado Ethics in Business Alliance (CEBA) is a 501C3 organization whose mission is to promote ethical business conduct for the benefit of the workplace, the marketplace, the environment, and the community. CEBA has been in existence since 1989, with a focus on recognizing individuals, non-profits, and companies that are operating ethically in Colorado via an annual awards program. In light of recent questionable business practices (e.g. Enron, Worldcom), CEBA recognizes an opportunity to provide more products/services to its audience, the Colorado public.

Therefore, CEBA is in the process of transitioning itself into an organization that continues to offer the awards program but also provides additional products/services (e.g. education, accredited courses, hot lines to ask ethically oriented questions, chat rooms to discuss ethically oriented issues, assessments tools, ethics indices). CEBA has recently completed its Strategic Plan and has identified a new organization made up of individual committees that will work in an integrated fashion. The Chairs for these committees have already been selected and we are in the process of identifying individual volunteers to support these Chairs in accomplishing each committee’s objective.

If, after reading the committee descriptions below, you would like additional information about volunteering with CEBA, please contact the committee chairperson as indicated.

Education Committee

• Study, recommend, and implement ethics education programs that support the mission of CEBA Position CEBA to become the community leader in networking; promoting and disseminating ethics forums, seminars, clinics, lectures and discussions with professional organizations and community groups
• Pursue partnership and collaboration with kindred community organizations (Better Business Bureau, Junior Achievement, Rotary, etc.) for the ethics education of Colorado youth and other market segments
• Collaborate with higher education institutions to assist, support and publicize pertinent research relating to ethics issues and the ethics climate in the larger community
• Work closely with the Event Committee regarding venue logistics, with the PR Committee to market educational products/services, and the Technology Committee for information distribution
  

Event Committee

• Coordinate all volunteer/staff efforts and activities related to the annual Colorado Ethics in Business Awards banquet
• Identify and manage partnerships with complimentary businesses and organizations (examples of which are noted in the Education Committee section) to further promote CEBA's mission and expand participation through additional events
• Collaborate with other CEBA committee chairs and members to ensure integration of programs and messages, including Marketing/PR for advertising and event promotion; Education for knowledge-sharing opportunities; and Technology for sourcing of participants and communication with winners/finalists
  

The Fund Development Committee supports CEBA by:

• identifying prospective donors / sponsors and coordinating collection efforts to support the annual awards banquet, other educational events, and the administrative operations of the Colorado Ethics in Business Alliance;
  
• pursuing corporate and other organizational sponsors, in-kind donations, grant money, and other creative sources of funding to ensure the long-term viability of CEBA.
  

The Human Resources Committee

• supports the human infrastructure for CEBA;
• identifies and develops policies/procedures that support the organization’s by-laws;
• develops processes for recruiting volunteers by tapping into existing entities;
• promotes efforts to broaden the diversity and statewide representation of the organization;
• identifies training needs for the members of the Board of Directors and for committee chairs and their members;
• establishes an Ethics Community (e.g. past finalists/winners, associated organizations/resources, consultants);
• supports CEBA’s transition to a new organizational structure.
  

The Marketing / Public Relations Committee is primarily responsible for

• working with the Event Committee to promote the annual Colorado Ethics in Business Awards luncheon;
• serving as liaison to Colorado BIZ , our media sponsor, in creating ads for the event;
• developing invitations for the awards luncheon;
• providing liaison with news media for event publicity;
• provide content and files to the Technology Committee for use on the CEBA web site and for email blasts;
• working with the Education Committee to market its educational products and services;
• identifying market segments and assessing the needs of those communities with regard to ethics-related services and products.
  

The Selection Committee

is comprised of members who serve on rotating three-year terms. It functions primarily between mid-November and early January each year. More particularly, it

• consists of a cross-section (e.g. profit, non-profit) of community volunteers, who select the winners of the Samaritan, Daniel Ritchie, and Business Ethics awards;
• reviews and evaluates the nominations for these annual awards. Students of the University of Denver’s Daniels School of Business write reports on each of the nominees;
• periodically reviews and evaluates the criteria for choosing the award winners.
  

The Technology Committee

provides information about the Colorado Ethics in Business Alliance for volunteers, sponsors, board members and the general public. It does this principally through the CEBA web site. Toward this end, it

• provides hyperlinks to other ethics-related websites;
• develops and maintains a “member’s only” section of the web site;
• incorporates such technologies into the web site as audio and video conferencing and streaming video of events;
• enhances the ability of Board members and Committee chairs to access CEBA data, reports, and articles to support their work on behalf of CEBA.

Nominations Committee:

Members of this committee support the CEBA mission by

• cultivating a broad community awareness of the CEBA annual awards program through collaboration with like-minded civic, industry and professional organizations;
• motivating grass-roots identification and nomination of exemplary candidates for the three annual awards;
• assisting with the initial screening of nominees preparatory to the research-and-report process undertaken by DU’s Daniels School of Business;
• working closely with the PR Committee to market educational products/services, and the Funds Development Committee to avoid any appearance of conflicts of interest.