The Mission
To serve the community of leaders, educators and our youth as a provider of research, training and best practice recognition in character ethics through a working collaboration of experts and practitioners.

We’re helping current and future business leaders put integrity into action by offering programs for the current and future workforce. Learn more about these exciting programs:

 
Our story began 14 years ago 
with an eye-opening discovery...
While the Better Business Bureau has worked vigorously for over 90 years promoting high standards of business ethics, surveys continued to connect us to our programs related to dispute resolution.

To increase awareness of our over-arching commitment to high ethical standards, we launched the Business Integrity Awards program in 1994, to recognize and showcase businesses who were intentionally pursuing the highest standards of organizational ethics. And over the years, we began to see a commonality among our integrity award recipients – each valued character ethics as a vital trait in its organizational leaders.

Armed with this information we set out to create a better roadmap to more intentionally transfer the essential disciplines of personal and public integrity. Then in 2001, we were introduced to the UncommonSense™ framework, a practical set of principles developed by the American Center for Civic Character (ACCC). This framework was not only the roadmap we’d been looking for, it was also the inspiration and foundation for The Center for Character Ethics, a 501 (c) 3 Educational Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio.


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