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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. Since 1987, the Institute has conducted programs and workshops for over 100,000 influential leaders including legislators and mayors, high-ranking public executives, congressional staff, editors and reporters, senior corporate and nonprofit executives, judges and lawyers, and military and police officers. The CHARACTER COUNTS! youth-education initiative is a project of the Institute.
The Institute is overseen by a volunteer, independent Board of Governors. Mr. Josephson serves without salary as president of both the Institute and the CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition.
The Institute is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization funded by individual memberships and gifts, foundation and corporate grants, fees and contributions for services, and sales of publications, curricular materials and other products.
For more information about the Josephson Foundation, visit www.josephsoninstitute.org
About CHARACTER COUNTS! Sports
CHARACTER COUNTS! Sports develops programs and materials to help coaches and other adults equip youth with values to meet life’s challenges, on and off the field.
The main focus of CHARACTER COUNTS! Sports is the "Pursuing Victory With Honor" sportsmanship campaign. The campaign was inspired by a conference of the same name held in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1999. There, more than four dozen leading figures in American amateur athletics called for major reforms in the way sports are played, coached and watched. Participants at this conference — generously underwritten by Johnson & Johnson and co-sponsored by the coaching division of the U.S. Olympic Committee — set forth 16 principles in the Arizona Sports Summit Accord , which signatories pledge to incorporate into their organizations’ athletic programs.
The Accord continues to gain signatories, including: NCAA Division 1A Athletic Directors Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the American Football Coaches Association, the National Federation of State High School Associations and most of the nation’s Division 1A collegiate athletic programs.
About Pursuing Victory With Honor
CHARACTER COUNTS! Sports develops programs and materials to help coaches and other adults equip youth with values to meet life’s challenges, on and off the field.
The main focus of CHARACTER COUNTS! Sports is the "Pursuing Victory With Honor" sportsmanship campaign. The campaign was inspired by a conference of the same name held in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1999. There, more than four dozen leading figures in American amateur athletics called for major reforms in the way sports are played, coached and watched. Participants at this conference — generously underwritten by Johnson & Johnson and co-sponsored by the coaching division of the U.S. Olympic Committee — set forth 16 principles in the Arizona Sports Summit Accord , which signatories pledge to incorporate into their organizations’ athletic programs.
The Accord continues to gain signatories, including: NCAA Division 1A Athletic Directors Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the American Football Coaches Association, the National Federation of State High School Associations and most of the nation’s Division 1A collegiate athletic programs.
All of this information originated from the CHARACTER COUNTS! Website. For more information about the Josephson Institute of Ethics, CHARACTER COUNTS! Sports, and the “Pursuing Victory With Honor” seminar, please visit www.charactercounts.org.
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