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	Funders of the John Jay Report National Survivor Advocates Coalition May 20, 2011 http://nationalsurvivoradvocatescoalition.wordpress.com/editorials/ We are publishing the funders of the John Jay Report, which was released Wednesday, as the list is presented in the report. The report does not include the funding levels. We are providing most of the information on the funding levels based on the information in John Jay College’s point person for the study, Karen Terry’s Curriculum Vitae (CV) on the college’s website. The amounts for the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Mutual Fund, and individual donors information comes from a Catholic News Service story published Thursday. We ask our readers to remember that this is a report that the bishops said in its commissioning out of the Dallas 2002 USCCB meeting would be its responsibility. This was part of the bishops’ post-Boston response to the scandal. There was no mention then of panhandling to pay for it. We note with particular interest that the taxpayers contributed to this report in a National Institute of Justice grant of $283,652. The Institute is part of the United States Department of Justice. We raise a quizzical eyebrow at some of the donors including the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, an organization described on its website as serving eight counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, which, according to its website serves Memphis and the mid-South and curiously in the individual donors section $242 is identified by the Catholic News Service story as contributions from “individual members of Voice of the Faithful” Two religious orders of women, the Sisters of Charity Ministry Fund, and the Daughters of Charity are contributors. Noting that the bishops’ money is Catholic contributors’ money, our question for the contributors to the bishops’ amount and the donors/members/investors of the other organizations is: do you think you got your money’s worth? Here’s the list: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – $1 million according to Karen Terry CV amount, $918, 000 Catholic News Service story amount National Institute of Justice (United States Department of Justice) – $283,652 (figures identified with grant number 20092009-IJ-CX-0036) Knights of Columbus – $250,000 Raskob Foundation – $100,000 Catholic Mutual Group – $50,000 Sisters of Charity Ministry Foundation – $25,000 Luce Foundation – $25,000 Catholic Health Association of the United States – $25,000 St. Joseph’s Health System – $15, 000 Greater Cincinnati Foundation – $10,000 Assisi Foundation of Memphis – $5,000 Daughters of Charity Foundation/Province of the West – $1,000 “Anonymous” donations – $100,000 Individual donors – $242 from Voice of the Faithful members — Kristine Ward, NSAC Chair
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