Has the CCHD funding been corrected?

It doesn't look like it.  The collection was yesterday.... I totally forgot and put a check in for our monthly giving - my parish doesn't do auto-withdrawal.  There was no second collection though, so are the funds taken out of the general collection or a second collection?  I'm not sure.

As Virginia reported earlier this year the CCHD funded the recent Walker recall.  The USCCB claims all issues have been corrected, but I seriously doubt it.  American Life League published the 2011-2012 grantees.  The H is for homosexuality, A for abortion.  

• Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Project Return (CO) H   
  • Racine Interfaith Coalition (LE) H (CO) H   
  • Common Ground (CO) H   
  • MICAH (CO) H 

• Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • Justice Organization Sharing Hope and United for Action (JOSHUA) (CO) H   
    
  • ESTHER (CO) H  
    

• La Crosse, Wisconsin
  • AMOS, Inc (CO) H   
    
  • JONAH, inc  (CO) H 
    

Last year we saw the Winona Cathedral come out blasting ALL, and we may now see why:

Winona, Minnesota Land Stewardship Project (LE) A, H (CO) H

UPDATE: Wow, check this out regarding Winona(good news!):

Land Stewardship Project loses $48K grant in spat over gay marriage amendment
The Land Stewardship Project is in hot water with the Catholic Church over the company it keeps.
LSP recently lost a $48,000 grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The reason? LSP is involved with TakeAction Minnesota — which opposes the proposed marriage constitutional amendment.
The dispute ends decades of church support for the nonprofit, which has a primary office in Lewiston and organizes farmers, trains young and beginning farmers, assists immigrant populations, and opposes industrial-scale agriculture.

And sadly, Minnesota Catholics may have paid to defeat their own marriage amendment:

St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota

• All Parks Alliance for Change (CO) H, C  
  
• City of Lakes Community Land Trust (LE) A, H, C (CO) A, H, C  
  
• Somali Action Alliance (CO) H, C    
• Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CO) H, C, M  

HT Verso

CCHD funded group praises Obamacare

From the MJS: 

In Milwaukee, where faith leaders and advocates have held prayer vigils and sent representatives to Washington to lobby for reform, the Rev. Dennis Jacobsen of Incarnation Lutheran Church called Thursday's decision a sacred moment that hit close to home.

"I do have this sense that this was sort of a sacred moment in a secular chamber," Jacobsen, who heads the national clergy caucus for the advocacy group Gamaliel, said of the Supreme Court decision. "I am convinced that health care biblically is God's intent for everyone."

I have heard that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee's CCHD collection was way, way down this year. So if the Archdiocese refuses to cut ties with these groups, the faithful will have to defund them out.

Unfortunately, Wisconsin Alinsky groups were awarded  [PDF] close to $250,000 in the 2011-12 CCHD grants.

The below video shows leaders of the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation holding a creepy healthcare rally shortly after Obama's election.

"Hear our cry, Obama. Deliver us, Obama," the organizers prayed:

PS Also noteworthy in the MJS article is this little line:

[The USCCB] vowed Thursday to continue to push for changes in the law.

"Changes" is a little different than "repeal," no? So I did a little research and found this article from Catholic News Agency:

The [USCCB] said that it did not join in “efforts to repeal the law in its entirety” after it was passed in 2010 and added that “we do not do so today.”

Liberal Nuns on the Bus en route to Wisconsin; stopping at Paul Ryan's Janesville office

A group of Catholic sisters will roll into Wisconsin on Tuesday as part of a nine-state bus tour protesting U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed budget and highlighting the work of Catholic social service agencies they say will be harmed by it.

The “Nuns on the Bus” tour, organized by the Catholic lobbying group NETWORK[do we fund this group through the CCHC?], will drop off an alternative "faithful budget" at Ryan’s Janesville office around 2 p.m. before heading to Milwaukee.  [... I still think it's weird that people actually read this blog]

Here, the sisters will break bread with the homeless and poor at St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church, 1015 N. 9th St., and, on Wednesday, tour the Seton Dental Clinic at 1730 S. 13th St.

"The budget that the House passed wants to cut both medical services and food programs drastically," NETWORK Executive Director Sister Simone Campbell said by telephone from the bus Monday.

"The sound bite is that churches can take care of that. But the fact is we're running as hard as we can ... and these programs will be totally swamped by it," she said.

more at FaithWatch

I think it's fair to say the alternative will likely be the status quo dressed up to dance.  The status quo is why we need an alternative. The question I keep asking myself is; did I pay for that bus?

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CCHD funds Walker recall

When you give money to CCHD, you are also funding the Walker Recall effort. Image.

There is some money laundering involved here but the cash flow works like this: Milwaukee CCHD funds the community organizing group SOPHIA which in turn sends membership dues to its parent organization, Wisdom, which in turn pays dues to Citizen Action Wisconsin. The latter organization is one of the most obnoxious, drum-beating, anti-Walker groups in the state. Oh yeah, it's also openly pro-abortion.

This year's CCHD collection will occur June 9-10.

One of the 2011 grant recipients, Common Ground of Southeastern Wisconsin, received $40,000 from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for the purpose of “Community Development Healthcare.” Common Ground is the Wisconsin affiliate of Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation, which served as the model for the development of Gamaliel Foundation, Barack Obama’s original employer in Chicago. Saul Alinsky, of course, was infamous for dedicating his book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer while using the Chicago Archdiocese as a pawn in his fledgling community organizing efforts.


Even those who are familiar with the CCHD agenda made no special note of the above-mentioned CCHD “healthcare” grant to Common Ground until the announcement on February 21, 2012 that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had granted a $56 million federal loan (from the $4 billion Obamacare slush-fund) to establish the “Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative” in Wisconsin.

At that point, it was hardly surprising to learn that Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative’s board of directors includes Kevin Kane, “healthcare coordinator” for the drum-beating, intensely partisan Citizen Action of Wisconsin, which is chartered to “advance progressive values” as an affiliate of the ultra left-wing Families USA. Not coincidentally, Families USA presented its 2011 Healthcare Heroes Award to Sister Carol Keehan, president of the pro-Obamacare Catholic Health Association. Perhaps this was our first glimpse at Obama’s “war on women” strategy that pits his hand-picked “reasonable Catholics” against the backward and patriarchal boys club of the Catholic bishops.

Here we are, one week away from the Walker recall election and less than two weeks before the Milwaukee Archdiocese Combined Collection, which includes CCHD. And Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, a child of CCHD, will soon be hard at work certifying the Obama healthcare conspiracy by providing free contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs to its customers.

Those of you who oppose any of the above may want to abstain from the CCHD collection.

Winona, MN Cathedral accuses American Life League of lying

Thank you for your contributions to the Collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development! Your generosity has laid the foundation for important changes in low-income communities all over the United States.  [... although none of the money actually goes to low income families] Through CCHD, we manifest Catholic social teaching and carry out Jesus’ mission to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free (cf. Lk 4:18).  [... umm, sight to the blind?]

Truth about CCHD

Recent accusations against the Catholic Campaign for Human Development made by the American Life League are unfounded allegations that have been thoroughly investigated by CCHD and the U.S. Catholic Bishops. CCHD relies on the evaluation, approval and monitoring of local bishops and Catholic dioceses regarding groups in their communities, not the distant web-based accusations[That's what the USCCB calls them, I get a kick out of that one] of those with their own ideological and ecclesial agendas. For more information please see the CCHD response available on the USCCB website.

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Winona MN

Yikes, ideological and ecclesiastical agendas?  I added the link to the USCCB. 

It strikes me as odd that the American Life League report showed major problems in CCHD funding and caused an overhaul of the review process, yet any critique is now called an "attack."  Didn't American Life League bring about a supposed fix which would be a good thing? 

I found an interesting exchange with a blogger friend at Regnum Novum and American Life League. 

I can see where there could be merit in some of these community organizations(Saul Alinsky didn't invent them - only how to corrupt good ones), but I don't donate to the CCHD.  I would rather my money go directly to a religious order who feeds the poor or works directly on these projects.  In my opinion, the bureaucracy of the USCCB tends to make it less effective at these kinds of things.

Several Iowa Catholic institutions named in a new CCHD investigative report

In one of its 2011 newsletters, CCHD proudly describes the work of grantee AMOS, an acronym for A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy. AMOS is a local affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, an Alinskyian organizing network that rallies congregations and other institutions for political advocacy.

AMOS was given a CCHD grant to help it advocate for a mobile obstetric clinic. “The mobile clinic is the happy result of a five-year effort by AMOS’s 29 member organizations, including Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Dubuque and the Diocese of Des Moines.”[i]

AMOS was one of four organizations involved in creating the Ames clinic. ‘The clinic was created from a partnership of AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy), MICA (Mid-Iowa Community Action), Broadlawn Hospital in Des Moines, and Des Moines University.”[ii] It’s insightful to look at these other partners.

MICA (Mid-Iowa Community Action) is one of a number of associated organizations were established in the 1960s as “delivery systems that maximize the federal, state and local resources in providing services to citizens.”[iii] That is, they connect poorer citizens into government-funded programs such as Head Start, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and others.[iv]

Among the key programs MICA uses is PROMISE JOBS, described as a “supportive, informational, and a true collaborative effort [that] gives each family an opportunity to access not only positive programs but an increased network of support.” [v] Available to all PROMISE JOBS participants – and therefore to all MICA clients - are “Family Planning Services – An option for everyone referred to PROMISE JOBS. Participants can find out how additional children can affect a family’s finances.”[vi]

Then, there’s Broadlawns Medical Center – a hospital – in Des Moines, another one of the partners that, along with the CCHD-funded AMOS, was responsible for establishing the Ames Mobile Clinic. Broadlawns’ Variety Club Women’s Health Center Family Planning Clinic provides a broad range of “specialized services and care for women” that include birth control counseling, emergency contraception, and something ominously called “pregnancy options,”[vii] a term used by Planned Parenthood to include abortion.

 continue at Spero News

Bp Morlino continues local managment of CCHD funds

Each year, parishes take up a special collection, in November, for the Catholic Campaign Human Development (CCHD). CCHD is the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic bishops.

CCHD works to break the cycle of poverty by helping low-income people participate in decisions that affect their lives, families, and communities. Half of the funds collected for CCHD stay in the diocese for programs in the diocese and the other half is dedicated to national projects/programs.

While many seek out answers to questions arising with regard to organizations previously assisted through the CCHD collection, Bishop Morlino has assured the Diocese of Madison that until he is personally confident that funds collected from the faithful of the Diocese of Madison will not be used to fund groups which violate the teaching of the Church by their policies, and he will continue to seek out other helpful ways to assist those in need.

• In 2008, Bishop Morlino dedicated the national portion toward the assistance of the victims of Hurricane Ike, through the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

• In 2009, Bishop Morlino dedicated the national portion to support the work of the Little Sisters of the Poor and their international outreach to the elderly.

• In 2010, prior to the full body of the USCCB discussing the funds and future of CCHD, Bishop Morlino decided that the national portion of the collection would go to benefit the work of the Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR), led by Fr. Benedict Groeschel. Central to the CFR mission is to serve the materially poor, most especially the destitute and homeless. “We know Fr. Benedict and the CFRs to be unreproachable,” said a statement from the diocese.

It is the bishop’s hope that this coming year will find an even greater number of the faithful prepare to give generously to the local CCHD collection, as well as a greater outreach of service in love to those in need.

details at MadCatHerald

Bp Ricken decides to restore CCHD funding

Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay has announced that he has lifted his moratorium, imposed in 2010, on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection in his diocese.

Bishop Ricken had issued the moratorium, he said in a recent statement, because “a few of the organizations that received CCHD funds had acted in conflict with Catholic teaching or had direct connections to coalitions that are not in harmony with Catholic principles of social justice ministry,” and because of “the appearance of partisan political positions taken by some of these organizations.”

“The new application process for grants announced by the USCCB will be much more thorough and will give increased consideration to Catholic social justice entities,” Bishop Ricken says. “According to the guidelines, this application/grant process is first done at the local diocesan level and then proceeds to the national level at the Bishops’ Conference.” 

Catholic Culture

This seems to conflict with last weeks announcement that parishes could no longer belong to pro-abort JOSHUA and ESTER.  Perhaps the assumption is that the USCCB is cutting ties with pro-abortion social "justice" groups.  We all hope that would be the case but had we not had watchdogs outside the USCCB bureaucracy checking this, it would have kept going on indefinitely.

Bp Ricken orders parishes to cut ties with pro-abort JOSHUA, ESTHER groups

GREEN BAY — Green Bay Bishop David Ricken has ordered Catholic parishes in the diocese to cut corporate ties to JOSHUA, ESTHER and other non-Catholic social justice organizations.

Ricken complimented the work being done by the Green Bay-based JOSHUA and the Fox Cities-based ESTHER of the Fox Valley, but expressed concern that without Catholic oversight, the groups' political positions could stray from Catholic teachings.

"An undesirable result of dual affiliations could be that a conflict could place our parishioners in a very difficult position of having to choose between their Catholic Church authority and another parallel organization," Ricken said in a statement. "Therefore, I am directing our parishes to withdraw their corporate membership in these organizations, effective July 1, 2011."
The directive will affect 15 of the diocese's 157 parishes, including eight in Brown County and seven in Outagamie and Winnebago counties.

A statement from the diocese cited an episode almost a year ago, in which an announcement from an abortion rights coalition appeared on ESTHER's website. ESTHER staff removed the announcement shortly after it appeared, but the appearance raised Ricken's concerns, and he met with ESTHER and JOSHUA leaders to discuss the issue.

Read more: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110217/APC0101/102170547/Green-Bay-Bishop-David-Ricken-orders-parishes-to-cut-corporate-ties-with-non-Catholic-social-justice-organizations#ixzz1EDwfLsNI

Great work Bishop Ricken!! 

Some background here.

Bp Morlino one of ten US bishops skipping CCHD campaign

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite a recent “review and renewal” of the U.S. Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), designed in part to “woo back” bishops upset over their distribution of funds to groups advocating abortion and same-sex “marriage,” at least 10 bishops opted not to contribute to the national collection this year.

The U.S. Bishops’ domestic social justice arm launched a large-scale renewal this fall with a commitment to strengthen their Catholic identity and funding protocols after widespread criticism from numerous bishops, as well as a coalition of Catholic and pro-life groups.

Nevertheless, many of the bishops who had discontinued contributing to the national pot maintained their position this year, and at least two more were added to their ranks.

U.S. bishops not contributing to CCHD’s national collection:
1. Bishop Joseph Adamec (Altoona-Johnstown, PA)
2. Bishop John Barres (Allentown, PA)
3. Bishop Lawrence Brandt (Greensburg, PA)
4. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz (Lincoln, NE)
5. Bishop Victor Galeone (St. Augustine, FL)
6. Bishop James Johnston (Springfield, MO)
7. Bishop Salvatore R. Matano (Burlington, VT)
8. Bishop Joseph McFadden (Harrisburg, PA)
9. Bishop Robert Morlino (Madison, WI)
10. Bishop Robert Vasa (Baker, OR)

LifeSiteNews

Diocese of Madison CCHD funds to support job education, area farmers

For some background on this, check out last year's  USCCB Catholic Campaign for Human Development scandal.  Basically it appears the CCHD has become a funnel from parishes to liberal groups supporting abortion and homosexual "marriage".  Bishop Morlino last year also withheld his CCHD funds and put them to a more appropriate use.

(Madison) As the nation’s bishops continue to scrutinize the distribution of the national portion of the US Church’s annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Bishop Robert Morlino has assured the Diocese of Madison that all donations earmarked for local use will only benefit initiatives, groups and programs consistent with authentic Catholic social teaching, as a matter of justice. To this end, after receiving recommendations from a local advisory committee, Bishop Morlino has decided that all of this year’s funds will help fund the Madison Catholic Multicultural Center’s “Just-Us Artisan Producer” project, and the initiatives proposed by diocesan Cluster 350’s Justice and Peace Committee.

Bishop Morlino is extremely grateful to Fr. Jim Murphy and the members of the diocesan CCHD advisory committee for their hard work and recommendations, with regard to how the diocese should best disperse local CCHD funds. Likewise, the bishop and the diocese thank all those who have so generously contributed to the CCHD collection. In a letter of thanks to Fr. Murphy, Bishop Morlino stated “I have complete confidence that these two projects which you have recommended will remain beyond reproach and faithful in all respects to authentic Catholic social teaching under the guidance of our diocesan priests.” A number of people in the diocese will benefit greatly, from the programs receiving these funds.

In 2008 and 2009, the Diocese of Madison earmarked the entire national portion of the CCHD collection to the victims of Hurricane Ike, on the Gulf Coast, and the work of the Little Sisters of the Poor, respectively. The decision to send directly to these two causes came after increased concerns that some funds donated to CCHD, in the past, had gone to support initiatives of either scandalous or, at the very least, groups or programs, which also undertook projects or political initiatives with which the Church did not desire to be associated.

The bishop’s decision was made to avoid and further scandal in this regard and to assure that all funds, so generously given by our faithful Catholic people consistently go to benefit only programs in line with authentic Catholic social teaching, as they intended.

Notes regarding programs benefiting from Madison’s local CCHD funds:

Catholic Multicultural Center’s “Just-Us Artisan Producer” Project ($10,000) – Program will prepare food for restaurants and other food providers purchased from local farmers, while training persons with major barriers to employment in marketable skills in this field. The work of the Catholic Multicultural Center is managed by Msgr. Ken Fiedler and Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish, Madison.

Cluster 350’s Justice and Peace Committee Initiatives ($6,000) – Cooperating with Family Farm Defenders, which partners with many area farmers, as well as local businesses, schools and hospitals, seeks to help people meet basic nutritional needs and encouraging fair compensation for producers. Cluster 350 is composed of St. Boniface, Lime Ridge, St. Patrick, Loreto, Holy Family, La Valle, and Sacred Heart, Reedsburg, WI.

Diocese of Madison

Campaign for Couch Potatoes in Green Bay

Green Bay seeks to regain members amid controversy

The Green Bay diocese is part of a national pilot campaign aimed at bringing people back into the church with television ads running through the Lenten season, inviting Catholics to "come home."

... the 65.2 million Catholics in the country constitute about one-fifth of the population, with about 350,000 of them in the 16-county region under the Green Bay diocese.

..Catholic churches make up half of the membership of ESTHER and JOSHUA, two interfaith groups Ricken met with recently over concerns about the relationship to national and state organizations that could take positions counter to Catholic doctrine.

"I don't want to put my people in a position where they have to make choices to jeopardize their relationship to the church," Ricken said. "These groups are doing very good work. We want to be proactive about working out things that could be a possible confusion."

Booyah Bp. Ricken!  The article goes on to say Catholics leave because they don't believe doctrine.  I've been to Mass in Green Bay and it's not hard to see why. 

I haven't seen the ads, has anyone else?

Bishop Ricken of Green Bay takes on CCHD reform

Bishop David Ricken the shepherd of Green Bay WI has taken it upon himself to clean up the mess the CCHD has created in his diocese.  He hopes to prevent his flock from funding abortion and homosexual "marriage" through Sunday collections.

Last Fall, Bishop David L. Ricken became aware of some inconsistencies between the principles of the Gamaliel Foundation and the teachings of the Catholic Church. The Gamaliel Foundation's affiliate organization in Wisconsin is WISDOM; two local affiliates of WISDOM are JOSHUA in Green Bay and ESTHER in the Fox Cities. About 18 Catholic parishes belong to either JOSHUA or ESTHER.

Read the letter posted by The Compass (GB diocesan newspaper) 

Last November Bp Robert Morlino, Madison(another Wisconsin bishop) has also decided to withhold any funds from CCHD until his own investigation can be made to understand what went wrong.

LifeSiteNews.com also picked up on the story.

I have also blogged on some of the previous developments. 

Quite frankly I do not understand the usefulness of the CCHD at all.

Dad29 has more on the latest findings   We are talking about alot of money here coming out of the collection plate.  Will Milwaukee, Superior and La Crosse follow suite?

USCCB ..... Isn't someone starting to look into this?

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has some surprising associations. For example, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR), founded in 1950, lobbies the Congress and White House on behalf of its 200 coalition members, which includes the USCCB.  

Members of the LCCHR must pay annual dues depending on the size of the group ($1,000 minimum) and "must share LCCHR's principles and purposes." These criteria were confirmed by Lisa Haywood, membership services director:

Equal rights, equal opportunities and equal justice with regard to race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, disability, age, or sexual orientation; and in which every group is accorded an equal opportunity to enter fully into the general life of the society with mutual acceptance and regard for difference.

Read the whole scoop on Inside Catholic


H/T Dad29

Catholic Campaign for Human Development back in the news

This time it looks even worse.  If you will recall back in November there was unearthed some rather unpleasant  findings(which I posted about here) that the USCCB sub committee the now infamous CCHD had been funding groups that promoted abortion and sodomy. 

Now Catholics are asking how it is possible that an executive like John Carr could possibly be employed by the USCCB.  From LifeSite

Top USCCB executive John Carr held simultaneous leadership roles, creating a conflict of interest, with the USCCB and the radical Center for Community Change.

Center for Community Change push abortion & sodomy like far to many of the CCHD funded groups, so much so that CCHD has become a tainted moniker.

John Carr's relationship with the Center for Community Change goes back at least to 1983, serving in leadership roles from 1999 to 2006 - including as chairman of the board

Read the brief on LifeSite or check out Reform CCHD Now which partners with solid groups like American Life League, Human Life International and Bellarmine Veritas Ministry.

The big question is "Who knew?"  If the bishops aren't calling the shot, then who is?  Praise God that these horrible abuses are being brought to light that they may be corrected.

The last time abuses came to light within the USCCB, let us call to mind these comments:

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee which oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has defended the program against what he called “outrageous” allegations and claims. He reiterated that the campaign is pro-life and has “zero tolerance” for funding any group that violates Catholic teaching.

Bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi Roger Morin on Tuesday addressed the fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the topic of the CCHD.

CNA Nov 19

CCHD - More updates

Recently I blogged on how the Bishops are supporting groups promoting abortion in Wisconsin.  through the USCCB group known as the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

It seems things have been heating up over this.  The Bishops fall meeting in DC had brought this subject up.

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee which oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) has defended the program against what he called “outrageous” allegations and claims. He reiterated that the campaign is pro-life and has “zero tolerance” for funding any group that violates Catholic teaching.

Bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi Roger Morin on Tuesday addressed the fall assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the topic of the CCHD.

CNA Nov 19

This response is a bit troubling considering the fact that their own documents are the ones condemning them.  The USCCB published who received money, this isn't like someone is releasing classified documents.

The bishop(Morin) said it was “particularly disturbing” that people form an opinion of CCHD based on an individual incident of misconduct.

What is becoming obvious is that MANY of the organizations receiving money participate in promoting the culture of death.  If we just look at Wisconsin we can find 4 out of the 7 groups receiving money have directly or cooperated with groups in promoting abortion.  This is not an "individual incident" and this is very minimal checking on my part. 

Green Bay	ESTHER (Gamaliel Foundation affiliate)	$32,000
Green Bay	JOSHUA Justice Organization Sharing Hope & United for Action	$25,000
LaCrosse	AMOS (Gamaliel Foundation affiliate)	$25,000
LaCrosse	Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope	$25,000
Milwaukee	Common Ground – Industrial Areas Foundation – See Website	$40,000
Racine	RIC - Racine Interfaith Coalition (Gamaliel Foundation affiliate)	$25,000
Milwaukee	Voces dela Frontera	$50,000

Another thing to remember is that the CCHD is not involved with actually helping the poor, but to overcome the "root causes" of poverty.

• Pro-Life groups are NOT eligible for these funds
• Pregnancy Care Centers are NOT eligible for these funds
• Religious Orders are NOT eligible for these funds
• Soup kitchens and homeless programs are NOT eligible for these funds.
• Direct services at Not covered.

Relevant Radio's Drew Mariani's show today is on this subject...

UPDATE: Diocese of Madison is NOT PARTICIPATING in CCHD collection this weekend!
American Life League alerted me to this just published by the Madison Diocese

While Bishop Morlino continues to seek out answers to the many questions arising with regard to the National Campaign, and until he is personally confident that funds collected from the faithful of the Diocese of Madison will not be used to fund groups which violate the teaching of the Church by their policies, he will continue to seek out other helpful ways to assist those in need.  This year’s National CCHD collection (2009) from the Diocese of Madison will go to the Little Sisters of the Poor and their international outreach ministry to the elderly.  The sisters operate 202 homes in 32 countries.

 We hope and pray other diocese will follow Bishop Morlino's example.

Note: It has been said that those not approving of the CCHD actions are "bishop bashing" among other things. I think this is exact opposite, we love our bishops and want any group who may be deceiving them on how money is being spent to be exposed.  Discussion and even *gasp* debate are a good thing, and as GK Chesterton said "Too often people can let an argument get in the way of a good debate."