About CEFE

Eleven Years of Progress and Growth

Launched online in September 1996 as the first cyber based non-profit organization dedicated to ethics and entrepreneurship education, CEFE has had over 400,000 individuals and organizations visit from among160 nations, international religious organizations, and principalities. A growing cadre of dedicated international CEFE Fellows are developing community programs on four continents and contributing their time, talent, and energy in a volunteer effort to help make the world a better, more peaceful, and prosperous place to live and work.

Growing an Institution Dedicated to Helping You

Since the beginning, CEFE, the Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise, has spawned the birth of the International Applied Ethics Institute, the Certification in Applied Ethics Program, Youth Ethics Webinars, ethics fellowships, publications including books, journals, and BLOGS, national and international community character development training programs, and a host of investment and free enterprise development strategies. In 2006 CEFE launched The Entrepreneurian Society, and the first online school of entrepreneurship.

CEFE's ongoing surveys reveal the strong public interests and attitudes of a global public regarding entrepreneurship, ethics, and the moral posture demanded of free market economic systems. . In sum, CEFE is possessed of a driving determination to assure ethics and entrepreneurship become synonymous. That is why we created two non-profit organizations to ensure the side-by-side development of both.

CEFE's Surveys

The very ethics surveys that are included on this website demonstrate time and again that students, working Americans, and individuals from all walks of life and from around the world, have little or no confidence in the ethics of American or international institutions. On the other hand, and according to our research, the vast majority (over 80%) believes ethics should be taught. The teaching is just not rudimentary but this 80% believes ethics should be taught from the beginning to the end of one's school career and continue well into the workplace and community.

Finding The Antidote

The Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise is dedicated to bringing ethics in free enterprise and ethical entrepreneurship education and training to individuals and organizations worldwide. CEFE's mission is simple -- Make a difference by inspiring ethical free enterprise through education, training, and information.

Our hope is that you will take the time to contribute to the cure by joining us in initiating model ethical environments in your workplace and in your community. Contact us today.

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