►Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) Information by American Life League Released November 1, 2009
The CCHD’s grants list for 2009, located here, lists the organizations below, each of which is accompanied by a brief explanation of why it should not receive any Catholic support, along with links providing the proof.
Please print out the statement cards (by clicking on the small picture of them, downloading them, opening the file and printing the sheet) and share them with fellow Catholics. Tell the CCHD "No Thank You!" when the annual collection is taken in your parish on November 22.
Here is the list of organizations, funded by the CCHD, that are engaging in philosophies and activities completely contrary to Catholic teaching.
The Chinese Progressive Association (recently defunded)
The organization must be fully nonpartisan when engaging in political activities. Organizations engaged in partisan political activity are not eligible.
Chicago Workers Collaborative - Illinois - $30,000
According to “about us” on Chicago Socialist website
"A world free of exploitation--socialism--is not only possible but worth fighting for. The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves--the vast majority of the population--are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society. Socialism can't be brought about from above, but has to be won by workers themselves."
CCHD grantees are listed as members with the Center for Community Change (CCC)
The Center for Community Change, while not a CCHD grantee, is partnered with 31 CCHD grantees (listed at the end). The CCC coordinates and trains its partners (including those receiving CCHD funds) with the goal of advancing its “progressive” vision of society. The Culture of Death is pervasive throughout the CCC, from its board members, to the grants it receives, to its projects and its promoted literature. Any group partnering with this organization is directly involved with this pervasive attitude. The following are just some of the aspects of the CCC which are completely incompatible with Catholic teaching.
Board of Advisors Member for Generation Change (a project of Center for Community Change)
Russell Roybal is director of movement building for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, where he oversees the organization's capacity building and leadership development efforts.
State-wide Education Organizing Committee – New Jersey - $30,000
New labor - New Jersey - $30,000
FUREE – New York - $25,000
Queens Congregations United for Action – New York - $35,000
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition – New York - $35,000
Metropolitan Organization for People – Colorado - $40,000
Idaho Community Action Network – Idaho - $35,000
Northern Plains Resource Council – Montana - $35,000
Nashville Homeless Power Project – Tennessee - $25,000
TN Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition – Tennessee - $25,000
Empower Hampton Roads – Virginia - $25,000
Justice Overcoming Boundaries – California - $25,000
POWER – California - $50,000
Coalition Los Angeles – California - $40,000
Workers' Defense Project – Texas - $35,000
CCHD Grantees Listed as Partnership Members with The California Partnership (CAP)
CAP took pro-abortion and pro-homosexual marriage positions in the 2008 Elections
Coalition LA - California - $40,000
Justice Overcoming Boundaries - California - $25,000
Parents Organized for Westside Renewal - California - $50,000
LA Community Action Network (AKA: CANGRESS) – California - $40,000
(UPDATE 11-16-2009) - According to a recent document from the CCHD titled, "For the Record - The Truth about CCHD Funding, The Archdiocese of Los Angeles reviewed the the activity of LA CAN, and the following is not considered "activity contrary to Church teaching, and has recommended continued funding for the organization."
Promotes access to emergency contraception and "family planning" through a monthly clinic offered by the Downtown Women’s Center.
The Women’s Community Revitalization Project – Pennsylvania - $30,000 (UPDATE 11-16-2009) According to a recent document from the CCHD titled, "For the Record - The Truth about CCHD Funding": The Diocese of Philadelphia, along with CCHD,continue to gather the facts involving this organization. This grant has been placed on hold during this process. Once all pertinent information has been reviewed, a final determination will be made regarding this organization.
"The following types of organizations and projects conflict with our values and funding philosophy and would not be considered."
"Organizations that consider themselves to be pro-life"
"Organizations and projects that do not support a woman’s full range of reproductive choices"
"Organizations and projects promoting abstinence-only sex education"
"Organizations and projects opposing same-sex relationships or marriage"
The San Francisco Organizing Project (SFOP) – California - $35,000 (UPDATE 11-16-2009) - According to a recent document from the CCHD titled, "For the Record - The Truth about CCHD Funding,"
"Archdiocese of San Francisco strongly supports the work of the San Francisco Organizing Project (SFOP) to expand access to health care to children. Both Archbishop Levada and Archbishop Niederauer have spoken at SFOP events; SFOP has met regularly with Archdiocesan staff to coordinate work on health care access and other issues that affect the poor and immigrant families.Archdiocese of San Francisco strongly supports the work of the San Francisco Organizing Project (SFOP) to expand access to health care to children. Both Archbishop Levada and Archbishop Niederauer have spoken at SFOP events; SFOP has met regularly with Archdiocesan staff to coordinate work on health care access and other issues that affect the poor and immigrant families."
Preble Street- Maine -$30,000 (UPDATE 11-16-2009) According to a recent document from the CCHD titled, "For the Record - The Truth about CCHD Funding": The Diocese of Portland, along with CCHD,continue to gather the facts involving this organization. This grant has been placed on hold during this process. Once all pertinent information has been reviewed, a final determination will be made regarding this organization.
Operates a day shelter where "family planning services" are made available by human service agencies.
(UPDATE - 11-18-2009) Recently removed itself from the Health Care for America Now coalition. Commendable, but this still does not excuse the promotion of Gayneighbor.org.
Promoted homosexual campaign “Gayneighbor.org” for ally group Equality Wisconsin in Oct. 2009 newsletter
(Richard Kirsche) “Unfortunately, the House legislation included a provision that will deny some women access to abortion services, a standard benefit now available on the insurance market. We will work to see that women have access to comprehensive health coverage in the final bill that passes.”
A central promise of health care reform is that if you like the health care coverage you have, you can keep it. Today in America, millions of women who buy health care on their own or who get it through the small business employer have abortion care coverage. Congressman Stupak's amendment would strip them of that coverage, breaking that central promise.
Stupak wants to outlaw abortion coverage in the new health insurance Exchange, where individuals and small businesses will purchase their coverage. Instead, women would only be able to purchase abortion coverage in a "abortion rider" plan - a single-service plan that covers abortion only. Such an "abortion rider" is discriminatory and illogical. Women do not plan to have unintended pregnancies (or pregnancies in which a complication will arise that will require ending the pregnancy). In fact, about half of all pregnancies are unintended. Abortion is simply not something that women plan to insure against.
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) – Illinois -$40,000
Youth program El Cilantro promoted birth control and homosexual lifestyles in its newsletter to teens.
Massachusetts Community Labor United – Massachusetts - $30,000
Joined “Cure CVS Now” coalition to expand access to birth control.
Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center – Ohio - $25,000 (UPDATE – 11-17-2009) After we revealed IJPC’s list of "friends and colleagues" on EWTN’s The World Over, IJPC completely removed the list, and removed the reference to "friends and colleagues." Instead, IJPC has an "under construction" statement and a notice that says, "Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement by IJPC of the activities of these organizations." The original list can be viewed here: "friends and Colleagues".
GREATER CINCINNATI WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER (pro-homosexual)
INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION (self-styled Marxist organization)
P-FLAG - Parents, Friends and Families of Lesbians and Gays
CCHD grantees listed as partners with MIV California:
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote California’s platform states, "Reproductive health needs to be an integral part of our state’s safety net." MIV’s 2008 voter guide called for individuals to vote against abortion restrictions and for same-sex marriage.
Faith in Community – California -$25,000
People Organized for Westside Renewal – California - $50,000
Coalition LA – California - $40,000
Justice Overcoming Boundaries in San Diego County – California - $25,000
Nuestra Casa– California - $35,000
San Francisco Organizing Project – California - $35,000
In addition to these organizations being funded by the CCHD are organizations connected to Saul Alinsky. Alinsky is best known as a socialist community organizer who wrote Rules for Radicals. Dedicated to Lucifer, this book is the authoritative blueprint for radical activism. His teachings revolve around the principle that the ends justify the means, and he promotes the Marxist concept of continuous class warfare. These principles are the very foundation of the various Alinskyan networks in existence.
The number-one recipient of all CCHD funds is the Industrial Areas Foundation, which was created by Alinsky himself. Other Alinskyan organizing groups receiving CCHD grant money are People Improving Communities through Organizing (PICO), Direct Action and Research Training (DART) and the Gamaliel Foundation.
Until last year, ACORN had received several million dollars from the CCHD. Its funding was cut, not because it was engaging in activities contrary to Church teaching, but because of embezzlement.
These are the facts. The CCHD is funding organizations whose agendas and strategies are in complete contradiction of Church teaching.
UPDATE: November 10, 2009:
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) released a frequently asked questions (FAQ)http://www.usccb.org/cchd/CCHD_funding_FAQ2009-11.pdf document on November 5, 2009 outlining common questions regarding what the CCHD is and what it does.
Included in this document is the following question: "Out of the 250 grantees for 2009, were any groups found non-compliant?"
The answer to this question on the FAQ is problematic at best, and patently false in some areas. Because of this, American Life League (ALL) is compelled to correct and address certain aspects of the answer to this question. What follows is the question and answer as is appears in the CCHD document with ALL’s clarifications in red:
Out of the 250 grantees for 2009, were any groups found non-compliant?
Out of 250 grantees in 2009, there were three credible allegations. (False. There were no less than 15. See above.)
In one case, a group was found to be in support of abortion and had already been de-funded. (True)
In the other two cases, the groups had taken actions in conflict with CCHD’s guidelines after they were funded. (False! Young Workers United was funded for 2009-2010, but their 2008 voter guide called for pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-prostitution votes. The Chinese Progressive Association filed an Amicus Curiae in 2006, suing the state of California for the support of same-sex marriage and was granted continued funding from the CCHD in subsequent years to the present.)
Without the knowledge of the local diocese or CCHD, they produced voter guides that took positions on referenda opposed to Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage and, in one case, on parental notification and abortion. As soon as these facts were confirmed, and after consultation with the local diocese, the groups were de-funded, and all funds were returned. Charges against two other groups named were investigated and, in consultation with the local dioceses, the charges were found to be inaccurate or based on a misunderstanding. (LA Can’s Dec. 2008 newsletter, specifically says, “Many LA CAN members also worked with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force campaign to defeat Proposition 8, which repealed the right to marry for same-sex couples. Unfortunately, this proposition also narrowly passed - a civil rights defeat for all Californians.” The other group being referenced is the Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP). Not only was WCRP found on pro-abortion WomenVote PA’s website as a coalition partner, but after the CCHD’s RE-INVESTIGATION of this group, we found that WCRP was a grant recipient from the Women’s Way Community Fund. Women’s Way specifically states that as a part of its granting criteria, it does NOT fund organizations that are A) pro-life, and B) not fully pro-abortion! We’re sure Women’s Way did its homework; did the CCHD?)
In all five cases, prompt and decisive action was taken consistent with CCHD’s policies and practices. In the past, funding also has been withdrawn promptly when allegations of political partisanship or mismanagement of funds were substantiated. (If this is the case, then why are the same offending organizations listed on this page still being funded by the CCHD?)
The documentation for the YouTube video, complete with citations and further web links, is found in the article "Picking Pockets in the Pew" by Mary Ann Kreitzer.
