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Pioneer Valley Project, Inc.
The Pioneer Valley Project (PVP) has received $535,000 from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) since 2006, including its most recent grant of $65,000 for the 2020-2021 grants cycle.
Pioneer Valley Project (PVP) is a member of multiple organizations that are pro-abortion and promote homosexual and transgender ideologies. In addition to this, PVP posted a strange Mother’s Day message promoting queer ideologies and was the fiscal sponsor of an LGBTQ organization.
In 2020, PVP sponsored the pro-abortion Pioneer Valley Women’s March, which says of its sponsors: “Our co-sponsors are community organizations who have helped amplify the 2020 Pioneer Valley Women’s March and are leaders on the issues in our call to action.”
As a sponsor that “helped amplify the … issues in our call to action,” PVP lent its voice to this pro-abortion call to action. Among the specific calls to action is the “demand” to “Adopt the ROE Act in Massachusetts.”
On May 8, 2022, PVP posted a Happy Mother’s Day message that includes “Queer Mamas, Genderqueer and Trans parents” saying, “You are seen.”
Pioneer Valley Project is the Fiscal Sponsor of Resilient Community Arts.
This is serious problem because of how flagrantly the Resilient Community Arts is promoting homosexual and transgender ideologies.
On December 21,2022 RCA will be hosting a Queer Holiday Support Group session.
Resilient Community Arts also hosted a “Womxn Support Group” geared toward “femme, genderqueer and gender-expansive folks.”
Resilient Community Arts also hosted a “Queer and Trans Art Group” that is “open to anyone who identifies as queer, trans, or gender-expansive.”
With RCA directly promoting homosexual and transgender ideologies, the fact that Pioneer Valley Project is the “fiscal sponsor” for the organization, PVP is directly participating in the promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism.
Membership in pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ organizations
The CCHD absolutely forbids organizations from membership in organizations acting against Catholic teaching. In an FAQ on the USCCB website, the CCHD directly answers the question about whether grantees may be members of coalitions that oppose Catholic teachings. In answer, the CCHD firmly stated, “CCHD will not fund groups that are knowingly members of coalitions that have as part of their organizational purpose or coalition agenda, positions or actions that contradict fundamental Catholic moral and social teaching.”
Given this prohibition, there is no way the Pioneer Valley Project can be a member of Rise Up Massachusetts and receive CCHD funding, and yet, it is doing both.
The Pioneer Valley Project is a member of Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA).
On July 5, 2022, MIRA posted a Reuters article about how illegal immigrants are worried about lack of access to abortion, while MIRA cries, “Abortion rights are under threat.” 
In June 2016, MIRA posted “Love Wins” saying, “Congratulations to all those who fought so hard for Marriage Equality and today WON their case in the Supreme Court for LGBTQ couples across the nation!”
On March 30, 2018 MIRA posted “TONIGHT! MIRA proudly co-presents this movie at Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival: En Algún Lugar – set against the background of a broken U.S. immigration system, this is a love story between two young men, Abel & Diego.”
On April 3, 2019 MIRA co-presented a film at the Wicked Queer: Boston LGBT Film Festival.
Rise Up Massachusetts identifies Pioneer Valley Project as a member.
Since NARAL Pro-Choice is a member of Rise Up Massachusetts, it’s not surprising that Rise Up Massachusetts would promote pro-abortion messaging, but the fact that it did makes PVP’s membership impossible, under CCHD grant guidelines. On May 4, 2020, Rise Up Massachusetts posted this pro-abortion message.
PVP is also an affiliate of Faith in Action, which took a formal position in favor of abortion as a “right.”
Faith in Action identifies Pioneer Valley Project as an affiliate on its “Federations” page, here.
Faith in Action is a coalition of 49 members, many of whom receive funding from the CCHD. Faith in Action itself received $500,000 in 2016 from the CCHD, when it was called the PICO Network. However, Faith in Action publicly supports abortion, its leaders openly slammed the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and FIA participated in electioneering activities in support of President Joe Biden and other Democratic candidates. The organization also supports LGBTQ+ ideologies. All of the pertinent information regarding Faith in Action on the whole is contained in the fully detailed report on FIA (see here), but the most important point is this:
On the day of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Dobbs v. Jackson case which overturned Roe v. Wade, Faith in Action took a formal position condemning the ruling, while vowing to “stand with women” calling it “oppression” to deny a woman the right to murder her child through abortion.
In an official press release, published on Faith in Action’s website, Faith in Action said:
“Clergy and organizers with Faith in Action, the largest grassroots, faith-based organizing network in the United States, are speaking out against today’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, following a leak of the Supreme Court opinion.”
FIA’s executive director Rev. Alvin Herring called the decision, “a huge blow to women in this season of despair,” and declared that ”[w]e must speak out against dangerous policies that chip away at having agency over their own bodies.”
Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould, FIA’s Senior Strategist at FIA’s Washington, DC office, claimed that the “SCOTUS decision to overturn ROE” was “legalized, judicially enforced oppression” that “shows contempt for the Creator.”
Rev. Kamilah Hall Sharp, member of FIA’s Organizing Clergy Board, said that the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was “deadly,” and that she was “enraged at the injustice, the lack of care for women and that most people who voted to take this right away will never have to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term in their bodies.” She then had the audacity to claim that “As a follower of Jesus,” her rage about the overturning of Roe “aligns with [H]is.”
This is the entire statement as it appeared on the Faith in Action website:
Conclusion
Pioneer Valley Project is directly responsible for the promotion of abortion and LGBTQ ideologies. On its own facebook page, it posted a pro-LGBTQ message and sponsored the pro-abortion Pioneer Valley Women’s March, which formally called for the passage of the ROE Act. In addition to this, PVP is a member of the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition and Rise Up Massachusetts, and an affiliate of the radically pro-abortion Faith in Action.
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