Posted on 01/10/2024 3:35:37 PM PST by Morgana
American Life League urges life advocates to be fully informed about the organizations that they support with their charitable donations. Respected for decades of cutting-edge activism, American Life League delivers its Charity Watchlist, a fresh resource to this year’s March for Life Expo attendees. Those in attendance at the national exhibition in Washington, DC, will be invited to try out the free online tool designed to hold charities accountable and keep donors “in the know.”
While many charitable givers have been advised to research a nonprofit’s bottom line, it may not be second nature for most givers to look beyond the mission statement. American Life League’s Charity Watchlist makes it easy to learn about an organization’s support or rejection of abortion and related practices.
“Take for example, the American Red Cross,” invited Katie Brown, director of communications at American Life League. “This well-known emergency relief organization has been lauded for spending about 90 cents of every donated dollar to alleviate human suffering. Yet, Charity Watchlist reveals how the organization and its international affiliates support abortion under the umbrella of meeting ‘urgent humanitarian needs.’”
American Life League’s Charity Watchlist has assigned the American Red Cross the negative designation of red. The online index uses a simple stoplight green-yellow-red color coding to allow pro-life donors to know if they can “go ahead” and donate to a nonprofit without reservations, “proceed with caution” after being fully informed of the potential risks, or “stop” any support of an organization that endorses abortion.
United Way, regularly spotlighted for its fiscal responsibility and low overhead spending of 15 cents per dollar, has been assigned an alarm-ringing red by Charity Watchlist. With a website that states it is “improving lives [and] strengthening communities,” United Way overtly supports Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider.
Also red-listed is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, loved by many for its pediatric treatment of childhood cancers and other diseases—all at no cost to patient families. Spending 82 percent of donor dollars on delivering care and researching cures, this nonprofit might appear to be a donor’s dream. However, Charity Watchlist has pointed out that multiple doctors on staff at St. Jude have actively participated in research utilizing human embryonic stem cells, placing the organization firmly on the “do not donate” list for life advocates.
“Charity Watchlist wants to highlight some of the more deceptive misunderstandings about nonprofit groups and their pro-life positions,” explained Katherine Van Dyke, American Life League’s lead researcher on the project, “as well as affirm those organizations that are doing good and remaining true to life-affirming principles.”
The American Heart Association is the largest private nonprofit funder of research into heart disease and related issues. Charity Watchlist gives the nonprofit a green “thumbs up” for pro-life donors, applauding the absence of human fetal stem cell or embryonic research and the organization’s lack of involvement in using human cells from IVF, cloning for human reproduction, or harvesting fetal tissue.
Charity Watchlist currently profiles around 60 tax-exempt nonprofits based on their implementation of life-affirming values or their endorsement of anti-life practices. American Life League promises that the list will continue to grow and invites charitable givers to submit nonprofit groups for Charity Watchlist review. View the current Charity Watchlist at all.org/charity-watchlist.
Neither gets a penny from me. Same with the Salvation Army, if they’re on that list.
I parted ways with United Way a *long* time ago, it’s a leftist con. The Red Cross behavior in Haiti and now in Gaza (and in between) demonstrates its true self.
I believe the Salvation Army is in bed with the United Way
That’s nice of them to post a list of who to not donate to.
We have a policy that we support only organizations that are either through our local church , or the church itself in it’s outreach efforts.
Very disappointing. Wife and I have been monthly donors to St Judes, but will now have to reasses. Glad to see Wounded Warriors is green.
Please provide proof of this connection. Thank you.
Please provide proof of this connection. Thank you.
Once upon a time that would have been inconceivable.
Eagle Scout, 1992
I’ve known for years to not give either of them a dime.
As far as the Salvation Army is concerned their little Manifesto a couple years ago saying that we should all be shamed for being white people did it for me. Along with my discovery that they no longer used the money that was donated in the area where it was donated
Catholic Charities should be added to that list. They’re deliberate subverting federal law by aiding and abetting the horde of “asylum seekers” crossing our border since 2021. They used to be the only charity I supported too.
Wounded Warrior has its own issues...
I dropped Catholic Charities when they started signing up the homeless for ObamaDon’tCare.
Solidified that stand when the local branch became the de fact City Homeless Housing Office, receiving funds to build “no barrier” housing. It’s turned into a disaster.
Ditto with Annual Catholic Appeal and their illegal-alien invasion support operation.
Damned if I give any of them any more after they suck up at the federal taxpayer trough. Not taxing myself twice for entities that harm this country.
I believe the Salvation Army is in bed with the United Way...
I dont know on the national level what the involvement is, but I am a bell ringer every season and know that money stays in the community. In my small town they are there for every emergency (fire, death etc.). They also provide a food pantry and other emergency services.
Dont know where you live but I know the money donated in my community stays there. And there is a balance sheet of how that money was used. Not sure about donations to the national branch. Not saying SA is the best but they provide alot of emergency services (food, shelter, etc)
Dont know about WW but have you seen Tunnel2Tower. The buying of hotels and converting to housing for homeless vets blew me away. What a cool idea!! And why didnt anyone think of that sooner? Definitely a project I could donate to.
That is disgusting. We stopped donating to them when they became pro-LGBTQ+ and for the guilt tripping for not embracing illegals.
They USED to be a church, but let evil in, probably in the leadership.
I've been anti-Catholic ever since I found out about them sending their pedophile priests to Alaska, where they raped their way across the Alaska Native villages in our state. So they've been on my don't donate/don't patronize list for decades now. Their importation of unvetted Afghan "refugees" to Alaska is just the latest transgression that absolutely disgusts me about that outfit.
Being honest, I can’t recall where I read that about donations not staying local. I do recall that I felt the source was good at the time. This was several years ago, before the ScamDemic.
But I did download a copy of their white guilt “manifesto” guide for their people. Lost it when I changed computers. That crap I can certainly attest to.
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