NOTE: To download a PDF version of this report, please click here.Cincinnati Interfaith Workers CenterCincinnati Interfaith Workers' Center is a long-time grantee of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), having received $435,000 in Catholic funds since 2008. Its most recent grant, found on the CCHD's 2020-2021 grants list, shows that it received $55,000 for that year.In 2012, the Reform CCHD Now Coalition produced a report showing that Cincinnati Interfaith Workers' Center … [Read more...]
US Bishops Fund Yet Another Marxist Group With Ties to Abortion Pushing Coalitions
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development was warned in both 2011 and 2012 that the Tompkins County Workers Center (TCWC) had ties to local New York socialist networks and was an affiliate of the pro-abortion Jobs with Justice coalition. This grantee was never officially defunded by the CCHD but was not funded by the CCHD between 2013 and 2020. Keep in mind that CCHD has not released its most current official grantee list with funding amounts. However, it does present an updated list of CCHD … [Read more...]
Catholic-Funded Organizations and Networks Financially Tied to Massive Pro-Abortion Initiative
From 2009 through 2012, members of the Reform CCHD Now Coalition had regular communication with the leadership of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Through the publication of reports, the coalition sounded the alarm on CCHD funding for organizations acting in direct opposition to Catholic moral and social teaching, which forced the CCHD to update its grant policies in late 2010. One of the new policies implemented by the CCHD was on coalition memberships.All applicants … [Read more...]
Catholic-funded Group Founded Coalition Pushing Abortion, LGBT Activism
Since 2015, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has provided $270,000 in grants to the Workers’ Center of Central New York (WCCNY), including a $70k grant in CCHD’s last published grant cycle. As of the date this report was published, the CCHD has yet to release this year’s grants list, however WCCNY is still listed on CCHD’s PovertyUSA website as a CCHD-funded group. As such, we are treating it as a funded group until CCHD proves otherwise.Last year, we reported that WCCNY … [Read more...]
Catholic Bishops’ Agency Admits to Deceptive Funding Scheme, Breaking Own Grant Rules
We have reported on CCHD grants since 2009, first as part of the Reform CCHD Now Coalition, and more recently as part of our mission as the Lepanto Institute. While there have been plenty of grants to horrible organizations, and not much transparency from CCHD leadership in their responses to our reports, one thing has not been at question; namely, that the organizations listed on CCHD’s own grants list are the recipients of the grants, and that no grantees were hidden from the public.This … [Read more...]
