Today (10/16/2011) I found that a group called “California Institute of Health & Social Services” (CIHSS) is actually a Los Angeles Affiliate of the Arizona nonprofit, ‘Fathers & Families Coalition of America, Inc.”  They appear to be getting from $4 to $8 million of government contracts, with major social service entities in 3 California Counties, and yet there is no visible  tax return since 2007.  They’ve been delinquent since 2009, and are the FIRST organization listed at a major conference 2011 conference where I believe it said 65% of the attendees were from government, and where the conferencing organizations’ Chairman of the Board of Directors is a Child Support Judge.

$8 million is a lot of money (circulating through government services) not to report about, which makes me wonder who benefits from failure to report.

2011

Oct-Dec

10/05/11 – ACF awards $28 million to improve well-being for children in child welfare

10/04/11 – ACF announces $2 million in grant awards for Tribal TANF – Child Welfare Coordination

10/03/11 – ACF announces over $119 million in Grant Awards for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood

The Grant Awards described (in the usual glowing terms as):

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Monday, October 3, 2011
Contact: Kenneth J. Wolfe
(202) 401-9215

ACF announces over $119 million in Grant Awards for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood

HHS’ Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance (OFA) today announced $119,393,729 in grant awards to 120 grantees to promote healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood. Authorized by the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (CRA), the grant awards will help fathers and families build strong relationships to support the well-being of their children.

Nice of our legislators to be so helpful-minded as they help continue devaluation of the dollar, and fail to address that these grants are not monitored properly, which HHS has already admitted and demonstrated in its Office of Audit Services.

I am sure that helping fathers and families (notice absentee noun “mothers”)  this was in the brain of the Founders of the U.S. when they wrote the constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Or was this grant (along with the family law system itself) a response to a certain Constitutional amendment allowing women to vote? passed just about 100 years ago?

“A strong and stable family is the greatest advantage any child can have,” said George Sheldon, HHS acting assistant secretary for children and families. “These grants support programs that promote responsible parenting, encourage healthy relationships and marriage, and help families move toward self-sufficiency and economic stability.”

Au Contraire.  These grants take money that would otherwise be used in direct Food Stamps, Cash Aid, or Child Support Distributions to children who need them, while still in their households, and encourage/invite anyone who has some basic “form a corporation — pick up the lingo — link to pre-existing resources” skills .  This setup those funds away from needy children/families and empowers practitioners, networks, religious groups (Thanks to a 2001 Executive Order by then-President George Bush), abstinence promoters, and other schemers in marketing their personal visions on the susceptible and unsuspecting public, at public expense.

Note that self-sufficiency and economic stability (the cause under which they were sold — see “Welfare reform” — is last, not first.   This is the literal establishment of a coaching industry without taking responsibility for results.

And they are also the demonstration of why Thomas Jefferson et al. were so wary of legitimizing a state religion, one brand over another.  Instead, we have a staff member of :

California Healthy Marriages Coalition (“Our Team” page)

(trade name now adopted by Healthy Relationships California, Ms. Howell)

Who is (not “appears to be”) an organizer for the Unification Church, a world-wide money-laundering cult which wishes to establish itself as the religious counterpart of the UN, and whose leader (Rev. Sun Myung Moon) claims to have communicated with dead U.S. Presidents.  I doubt it, however it’s VERY clear from the background that he has communicated quite a bit with an ex-U.S. President, George Bush.   In fact, my 2010 assertions, and strong understanding that this entire Healthy Marriage/Responsible Fatherhood movement itself is in fact primarily a push from this cult.  I can show definite links to the Children’s Rights Council (CRCkids.org), another critical family law nonprofit (works alongside AFCC) which celebrates “National Parents Day,” with (now, Secretary of State) Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Despite all my text you are wading through, the goods will continue to be delivered — the Unification Church has a LOT to do with these grants, and with George Bush’s Executive Order of 2001, opening the floodgates to faith-based groups getting grants, and potentially laundering them, a chip off the “True Parents'” (i.e. Rev. & Dr. Sun Myung Moon) block.  Fasten your seatbelt.  This Executive Order needs to be retracted, but good luck doing that, as our current President has only expanded and promoted more of the same.

Bento Leal
Implementation Specialist
Bento@CaMarriage.com
[tel#]

Bento has worked in the field of marriage- and family-strengthening for the past 20 years. Before joining CHMC staff, he worked with Federal grants in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area to provide life skills mentoring to ex-offenders and to help build family-strengthening capacity of small or emerging faith-based and community organizations.  Bento is a trainer in several Marriage Education curricula, including Mastering the Mysteries of Love (MML).  Bento’s primary assignments with CHMC are to teach MML leadership workshops and provide technical assistance to newly-trained MML facilitators so they are successful in organizing and conducting MML classes.  Bento and his wife, Kimiko, have been married for 25 years.

I hope he can really keep work and religious life separate, but this passage (note:  years before formation of the CHMC, so if they did a background check they would be aware.  Maybe it’s irrelevant, but for $2.4 million/year, I don’t think so.  LinkedIn Profile shows 1 connection (only) and 1 job — CHMC — since a 1972 degree from the Cal State University system.  Perhaps this is why.  This dates to only 2001, same state, SF Bay Area, and is VERY revealing on who is behind some of this push for marriage/fatherhood evangelizing:

The passage I cited yesterday, including True Mother passing out gold watches, and Redeemed Convicts for Christ singing for the occasion.  Was part of the use of the Federal Funds mentioned above, winning more for the Moon church?

True Mother’s 8 City North American Speaking Tour – San Francisco / Oakland Bay Area Report

Michael Jenkins  (mr. Leal’s Family Pages, here:)
November 30, 2001

The San Francisco / Oakland region was on fire with preparation for True Mother through the visit of Archbishop George Augustus Stallings.Bishop Stallings has been preaching across America about the blessing and the time we are in. He met former Governor Jerry Brown and Pastor J. Albert [Alfred?] Smith of the Allen Temple Baptist Church a most well known pastor in the Oakland area. It turns out the Bishop Smith had known Bishop Stallings before. He was so moved by the meeting with Rev. Thompson and Bishop Stallings that he decided to come that night to Mother’s speech.

Bishop Stallings is not someone to ignore, and I can see the validity of his issues, in breaking away from the Catholic Church because it was unresponsive to the needs of the African community/culture.  However, the primary theme of Catholicism has a whole lot to do with submission to authority; obviously something was going to give.

(in italics, from the same “tparents.org” site):

Stallings attracted considerable attention by appealing directly to the cultural and spiritual needs of his growing black membership. Blending age-old Catholic liturgy with African rites, a traditional black preaching style, and elements of African American history and music, Stallings captured headlines throughout the nation for his rebel brand of Catholicism. He hung a painting in St. Teresa’s depicting Christ as a black man, introduced gospel music at mass, and delivered fiery, spirited sermons resembling those of black Protestant church orators. It was said that in front of his congregation at Sunday mass, he would preach, swing, and sing with such holy verve that even the ushers would join in. Stallings remained the church’s pastor until 1988, when he was named director of the evangelism program for the district’s archdiocese. But he left an indelible mark on St. Teresa’s history by increasing its membership tenfold–from 200 to 2,000 parishioners

As Stallings expected, church authorities reacted rigidly to his new church. He even received an unequivocal suspension, forbidding him from celebrating mass and administering sacraments. The man who was once the pride of the Catholic church had become a thorn in its side. It has been suggested that many of the Catholic church’s black bishops understood and sympathized with Stallings’s actions but refused to condone them. As Jacqueline Wilson, director of the Washington, D.C. archdiocesan office for African American Catholics put it in Time, “No one can go off and start up his own church and call it Roman Catholic.” Although Stallings risked excommunication from the church for his actions, he remained unrepentant.

Nearly one year after the formation of his Imani Temple, Stallings was indeed excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church. He had appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, a nationally televised program, just a few days earlier on January 30, 1990. He boldly announced on the show: “As of today, the African American Catholic Congregation is going independent and is no longer under Rome … no longer under the Pope.” (The Pope is regarded by believers as the infallible head of the Roman Catholic church.) Stallings also announced that his unsanctioned African American organization would permit abortion, birth control, divorce, homosexual activity, women in the priesthood, and marriage among priests–all of which are forbidden under Roman Catholic church law.

ArchBishop Stallings, on “vimeo,” with Rev. Sun Myung Moon:  “Yes, he is a prophet, Yes he is a Messiah, Yes he is a God.”  Said immediately after quoting from Isaiah, he was wounded for our transgressions (prophecy of Jesus Christ.  2 minute clip).

Wikipedia continues:

In 1989 a former altar boy at St. Teresa of Avila Church accused Stallings of sexual misconduct over a period of several months in 1977.^[3] The Washington Post reported in 1990 that concerns about Stallings’ association with teenage boys had helped lead to his split with the Roman Catholic Church. ^[4]    In 2009 the archdiocese reached a $125,000 settlement with Gamal Awad, who said he was sexually abused at 14 by Stallings and a seminarian.^[5]

Relationship with Emmanuel Milingo and Sun Myung Moon

In the year 2001, Stallings married Sayomi Kamimoto, a native of Okinawa, Japan, in a ceremony presided over by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church. They now have two sons. In 2004 he was a key organizer for an event in which Moon was crowned with a “crown of peace.” The event was attended by a number of members of the U.S. Congress.^[6]

Stallings regained attention in 2006 due to his association with excommunicated Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo and his group Married Priests Now!. Milingo consecrated Stallings and three other independent Catholic bishops conditionally in a ceremony in September of that year.^[7]

Back to the TParents account:

Mr. Bento Leal of the American Family Coalition did an excellent job in organizing the International Leadership Conference which hosted over 80 Ambassadors for Peace. Dr. Frank Kaufman gave the IIFWP presentation. Many of the 120 founding ACLC pastors were there. Also, fine academic and political leaders were there. One very important Moslem Imam spoke earlier who is the head of the oldest Mosque in America. He has completely memorized the Koran and he feels God’s spirit calling him to be with Father Moon. The AFC presentation and ACLC presentations were well received. This created a very advanced core group of VIP’s to attend True Mother’s speech.

The Banquet was well prepared. The Mayor of San Francisco, The Honorable Willie Brown gave a proclamation honoring the spirit of the event. Rev. Kevin Thompson , Vice Regional director opened the program with music from our Bay Area Choir and band. There music was very professional, if you didn’t know the brothers and sisters singing you would think that they are a professional group. The Invocation was given by Dr. Scott Griffin who is Chaplain of the California State Prisons for Women.

Then the Step Out Band was introduced. They are also known as the Redeemed Convicts for Christ. These men had turned their lives over to Jesus and you could feel it in their music. They performed very smooth, sweet and soft soul-filled gospel and a quartet in perfect harmony. Rev. Jenkins then gave the Rev. Kwaks’ message concerning Building a Nation of Cosmic Peace.

Bishop George Augustus Stallings was the Complete Testament Age Evangelist – He in a most inspired and moving presentation he testified to True Mother’s speech and the peace that she is bringing throughout America. He also gave a testimony about his own blessing and how Mother played a key role helping to find him the bride that God had prepared for him. We have certainly entered a new time in history. Bishop Stallings is preaching a combination Gospel/ Divine Principle message. He testified that the “I” and “We” that Mother speaks about is real. He said, “The “I” that I was one year ago than the “I” that you see standing before you tonight. This “I” has been transformed by the Holy Spirit coming through Mother Moon. And now this “I” has become a “We” with God, True Parents, my wife, Sayomi as one big we. Mother is transforming America with her message of peace and love.”

OK . . . But what concerns me more is the reputation of the Unification Church for money-laundering and tax-evasion.  There are in fact some very serious issues with the Moons in this entire family-promotion-schema.  From a RickRoss Site (investigates cults) on American Clergy Leadership Conference, above:

“Some Black Clergy Fired over Moon Connection” from Washington Post, 7/25/2001

Some black clergy members who traveled with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon on his recent U.S. tour have been dismissed from their churches or threatened with dismissal unless they denounce him.

In separate incidents, as many as 35 black ministers, most of them at churches in the South, have been voted out of office by church boards that object to any affiliation with Moon “because he calls himself the Messiah,” said the Rev. Timothy Chambers, an Alabama evangelist who is pressing Moon’s Unification Church to help the dismissed pastors.

Chambers blamed the Unification Church for the dismissals, saying that Moon’s representatives promised the black preachers that they would establish an independent group called the American Clergy Leadership Conference so the preachers could control their appearances during Moon’s tour. Then, Chambers said, Moon’s representatives “just started taking things over and running things.”

. . . The firings reflect an increasingly close and recently uncomfortable relationship between Moon and prominent black clergy members. This relationship was most visible two years ago, when Moon teamed up with the Rev. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam to host the Million Family March.

Once, Moon preached the superiority of the Asian race. Then in 1982 he went to jail for tax evasion and found common cause with civil rights leaders who contended that he, like they, had been persecuted because of his minority status.

Now he preaches an interracial message, often marrying female Korean church members with black men. He has donated millions of dollars to black churches and cultivated a network of preachers loyal to him. His latest American tour began in a Bronx church in April and ended 50 days later at the Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, with Moon surrounded by black preachers testifying to his good works.

The relationship drew little notice recently until black congregations and clergy members started becoming suspicious of Moon’s influence.

At the Imani Temple, a black Catholic congregation in Northeast Washington, a group of members joined by Black Panthers began protesting outside on Sundays after the Rev. George A. Stallings married a Japanese woman who worked for Moon in one of Moon’s famous mass weddings in New York.

Who has been (probably still is) a proud member of the Unification Church, which is a money-laundering cult to which former President Bush — who opened the doors to faith-based initiatives not by popular vote, but by Executive Order in 2001 – – also appears to have had some connections.  The Unification Church also at one point helped out a well-known group called “Scientology,” and has definite interests in the American Ultra-Conservative Right-wing.  Rev. Moon has heard from former U.S. Presidents (Jefferson, Madison) that we are all to endorse him.  If not willingly, I suppose we might be forced through marriage classes run by various cult members and others who do not believe in the Bill of Rights.  (Another Rick Ross article from 2003)

I think we also need to read this article about under-reporting of clergy abuse in black churches “of all denominations,” particularly where in these “close-knit, family-oriented houses of worship.”  “While it’s very tough for anyone to speak up, if you are African American or Hispanic or Vietnamese, ministers are often held in minority cultures in even higher esteem,” Clohessy said.”

The Healthy Marriage program awarded a total of $59,997,077 in grants, which include 60Community-Centered Healthy Marriage grants and a National Resource Center for Strategies to Promote Healthy Marriage grant. The Responsible Fatherhood program awarded a total of $59,396,652 in grants, which include 55 Pathways to Responsible Fatherhood grants and fourCommunity-Centered Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry Pilot Project grants.

These grants, administered by OFA, must have procedures in place to address issues of domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, and they must ensure that program participation is voluntary. HHS encouraged applicants to develop programs that emphasized providing comprehensive services to participants, including attention to the importance of employment and economic stability.

The marriage and fatherhood grants were awarded through a competitive process and aim to test promising strategies for supporting healthy relationships and marriages and for helping fathers meet their parenting and financial obligations to their children. Organizations receiving healthy marriage grants may provide a range of services including marriage education, divorce reduction, and marriage and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement.  Fatherhood program funding must be used to promote responsible fatherhood through activities that promote or sustain marriage and responsible parenting, and that foster economic stability.

Today’s $119 million in grants are part of a $150-million fund established by Congress to promote healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood. The remaining funds are allocated for research, a responsible fatherhood clearinghouse and Tribal TANF – Child Welfare grants (as authorized by the legislation), training and technical assistance for all grantees and administrative costs.

HERE ARE the SECOND HALF — FATHERHOOD GRANTEES. Pls. note:  Both broups are basically fatherhood grantees, but at least these admit it.

Everyone of these has a corporation history (or, if a social services department, a contact).  Every single one of them should corespond to a TAGGS grant you can find, eventually, and discover what category of grant was involved, and the addressee adn type of the recipient, PLUS its DUN#.  WIth this DUNS# you can then go to USASPENDING.gov (or anywhere else, if you know of a better site) and look up contracts, beyond just grants, it’s gotten, or, whether departments besides HHS are dealing with the group.

If nonprofit, read the 990s and see who is on the board of directors.  Find out what state they are incorporated in and whether that registration is current.  Depending on the state, one will find also laws about how often charities need to register with each state — look at that.  Always look up the street address.  notice if you are finding judges or public employees on these entitites (which I happen to think is reprehensible, and may be a conflict of interest>  If it’s a judge, see if that judge has properly filed conflicts of interest statement including, if applicable, that corporation, below.  Notice which ones share addresses with churches (etc.)

I have found an entire year of grants reporting missing on a USA account, plus a corporation that got a $50K grant (in 2006) which I cannot find anywhere.  These behaviors are habitual among grantees, however loud they may proclaim their works on the websites.

For an example of what a continuous, uninterrupted series of filings a corporation should have, for example, in Colorda, see Center for Policy Research site in Denver.  (note:  I don’t like what the group is doing, but it IS filing right, apparently):

(I wish California’s Corporate search site were anything approaching this one’s:  it’s far, far better!)

We see Jessica S. Pearson incorporated this in 1981, and it is in good standing.

[[JUST A NOTE:  THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION SHOW FIRST ADDRESS AS 1720 EMERSON; SEARCH ON THIS BLOG — IT CORRELATES TO ANOTHER ORGANIZATION).

Formed the same year — in California as a Foreign Corporation, Jurisdiction, ILLINOIS, but Entity Address Colorado — this address.  And the registered agent just so happens to be (head of?) Family Court Services in Los Angeles, or in some position at the courthouse there.    Cute, huh?  They were doing business here, but their jurisdiction was IL, however, the person running or starting it was at 1720 Emerson.

AFCC & CPR work together, obviously…

1993 “CORP REPORT” shows board of directors, including a Jeffrey G. Pearson, attorney at law (1720 Emerson), Nancy Thoennes (still on there), someome from a Jewish Community Center, and other naems I do not recognize offhand.   1995 Corporate Report  1997 Biennial Report  (appar. in Colorado, corps. only need to report every other year); in 1999 the registered agent moved, and 1999 report includes Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes, Paula Herzmark of Denver, Robert Schultzinger of Boulder, and Cyndi Kahn of Denver. (now, it’s all women, i believe)

CPR continues to keep filing, right up to 2011:  Of the 2 pages of filings, one can see consistency:

Found 40 matching record(s).  Viewing page 2 of 2.

#	Event	Date Filed	Date Posted	EffectiveDate	Document # (click to view)	Comment
21	Report	04/16/2002	04/16/2002	04/16/2002 12:00 AM	20021097503	CORP REPORT
22	Report Printed	03/13/2003	03/13/2003	03/13/2003 12:00 AM		PR – 04/01/2003 – 06/30/2003
23	Report	07/21/2003	07/21/2003	07/21/2003 12:00 AM	20031233359	CORP REPORT
24	Report Printed	07/23/2003	07/23/2003	07/23/2003 12:00 AM		PR – 07/31/2003 – SA 09/30/2003
25	Report Printed	03/16/2004	03/16/2004	03/16/2004 12:00 AM		PR – 04/01/2004 – 06/30/2004
26	Report	04/13/2004	04/13/2004	04/13/2004 12:00 AM	20041136260	PERIODIC REPORT

I also see that in 1985, Jessica Pearson also registered “Center for Policy Research’ as a trade name, and that its registration is still current.

Contrast that registration history with, for example, some of WAIT Trainings (Joneen (Krauth) MacKenzie, same state:

(Searched WAIT training)

(The first two are bartending references….)

Found 10 matching record(s).  Viewing page 1 of 1.

#	ID Number	Document Number	Name	Event	Status	Form	Formation Date
1	14481012029	14481012029	GRASSROOTS WAIT TRAINING	Trade Name	Effective	Individual	04/01/1995
2	19951039820	19951039820	GRASSROOTS WAIT TRAINING	Register a Trademark	Expired	TM/L0041	03/28/1995
3	19971014097	19971014097	TRAINING FOR WAITING	Register a Trademark	Expired	TM/L0041	01/29/1997
4	19951021655	19951021655	WAIT TRAINING	Register a Trademark	Expired	TM/L0041	02/21/1995
5	20031350604	20051224933	WAIT Training	Articles of Amendment	Name Changed	DNC	11/06/2003
6	19941010466	19941010466	WAIT TRAINING, INC.	Trade Name	Effective	DNC	01/27/1994
7	20011165974	20011165974	WAIT TRAINING INTERNATIONAL., LLC	Articles of Incorporation	Name Changed	DLLC	08/23/2001
8	20011165974	20101034887	WAIT TRAINING INTERNATIONAL., LLC	Articles of Reinstatement	Good Standing	DLLC	08/23/2001
9	20011165974		WAIT TRAINING INTERNATIONAL., LLC, Dissolved January 1, 2003	Batch Event	Name Changed	DLLC	08/23/2001

BY THE WAY — please read items #3ff which confirms that Joneen Krauth et al.  in 1994 — to absolutely confirm that, from the start (1991/1994) the intention of this group was abstinence education, from day 1.

Event Date Filed Date Posted EffectiveDate  Document # (click to view) Comment 1 Register a Trademark 02/21/1995 02/21/1995 02/21/1995 12:00 AM 19951021655  WAIT TRAINING 2 trademark expiration letter printed 09/27/2004 to be mailed 10/01/2004 09/27/2004 09/27/2004 09/27/2004 03:15 PM trademark renewal due by: 02/21/2005 3 trademark expired, 03/01/2005 03/01/2005 03/01/2005 03/01/2005 12:46 AM WAIT TRAINING

Training for Waiting:  Name registered 1997-2006

Wait Training:  Name registered 1995-2003

WAIT TRAINING, INC. registered in 1994 to “MOUNTAIN AREA ALTERNATIVES CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER, INC.” (a nonprofit, no address)

. . .= in Evergreen Colorado, Pres. Charls M. Madison, Sec. Ronald P. Lewis (Jefferson County, CO)

…then in 2001, we have “WAIT TRAINING INTERNATIONAL LLC of Englewood, CO (Joneen MacKenzie)

…IN 2003, she formed “Colorado Council for Abstinence Education” which lasted 1/2003 – 9/2004 (admin. dissolution, probalby for non-filing):

with a provision of distribution of assets on dissolution to “an educational agency or alternative pregnancy center”  In August 8/23/03, the word “Council” became “Coalition” after which:

Report Printed	04/22/2004	04/22/2004	04/22/2004 12:00 AM	PR – 04/30/2004 – SA 06/30/2004
5	Change in Status	07/19/2004	07/19/2004	07/19/2004 10:51 PM	Failure to file annual report
6	postcard notification printed 09/24/2004 to be mailed 10/01/2004	09/24/2004	09/24/2004	09/24/2004 02:12 PM	failure to file annual report: 09/24/2004
7	Change in Name	10/28/2005	10/28/2005	10/28/2005 12:43 AM

Very active, corporately and trademark registration-wise:

Found 7 matching record(s).  Viewing page 1 of 1. # Name  Address Type Count 1 MACKENZIE, JONEEN 8101 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE SUITE D-2, DENVER, CO 80237, US Registered Agent 1 2 MACKENZIE, JONEEN 10427 E DORADO PL, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111, US Registered Agent 1 3 MACKENZIE, JONEEN 10427 E DORADO PL SUITE D-2, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80111, US Registered Agent 1 4 MACKENZIE, JONEEN 8101 EAST BELLEVIEW SUITE D-2, DENVER, CO 80237, US Trade name Registrant 1 5 MACKENZIE, JONEEN 8101 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE SUITE D-2, DENVER, CO 80237, US Trade name Registrant 1 6 MACKENZIE, JONEEN K 8101 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE SUITE D-2, DENVER, CO 80237, US Registered Agent 3 7 MACKENZIE, JONEEN L 8101 EAST BELLEVIEW SUITE D-2, DENVER, CO 80237, US Trade name Registrant 1

{in general, Relevant terms:  “CareNet” (stationery), Colorado Coalition for Abstinence Education, (CCAE) Friends First (possibly a dba of Ms. Krauth), and etc.  https://www.care-net.org/events/conference/speakers.php  Pregnancy Centers, alternative to abortion, featuring Focus on the Family President as Speaker.   “Jim Daly served at Focus on the Family for 16 years before being handpicked by founder James Dobson to be the group’s next president” (browse to see who CareNet is):

Under the first item only (record #1), we see:

Found 4 matching record(s).  Viewing page 1 of 1. # ID # Entity Name Entity Type Date Filed Entity Status 1 20091474442  Relationship Wellness Foundation Nonprofit Corporation 09/04/2009 DQ 2 20091474397  Relationship Wellness Institute Corporation 09/04/2009 DQ 3 20031350604  The Center for Relationship Education Nonprofit Corporation 11/06/2003 GOOD 4 20091473860  Center for Relationship Education, Dissolved December 15, 2009 Nonprofit Corporation 09/04/2009 VDISS

As we see, the only one of this to survive (currently is #3, ‘THe Center for Relationship Education.”

This is, in fact, the Healthy Marriage Grantee which has gotten millions$$ of $$ to date, and which is also registered as a member of the NARME (inc. 2010 in Florida) also, and pushes NARME registration on its website.  NARME registration is associated with Dennis Stoica (of California Healthy Marriage Coalition — back to square one, obviously) – and running webinars (not free) on how to get grants, as publicized by a man, Bill Coffin, who worked as Special Marriage Assistant at HHS/ACF for, the ref. said, 8 years (2002-2010).

The Center for Relationship Education is “WAIT Training” on the TAGGS list, and (itself) on the Healthy Marriage Grantee list at the top of this post (and on HHS/ACF site).  However, it BEGAN in 2003 as:

Event	Date Filed	Date Posted	EffectiveDate	Document # (click to view)	Comment
1	Articles of Incorporation	11/06/2003	11/06/2003	11/06/2003 12:00 AM	20031350604	ABSTINENCE AND RELATIONSHIP TRAINING CENTER (THE)
2	postcard notification printed 10/22/2004 to be mailed 11/01/2004	10/22/2004	10/22/2004	10/22/2004 09:37 AM		annual report due: 01/31/2005
3	Change in Status	02/11/2005	02/11/2005	02/11/2005 10:25 AM		Failure to file annual report

The first corporate action it appears to have taken (2 years after filing )was to fail to report in 2005, probably right before getting another federal grant….

Articles of incorporation (2003) state that on dissolution its assets shall got to a “local youth-serving agency that mentors youth through abstinence education, such as Save Our Youth located in North Denver.”  OKay  . . . . (such stipulations seem to be on a lot of RN MacKenzie’s nonprofits that dissolve soon after). For the record, another incorporator is Shelly Donahue, 414 Elm Street, Eaton, CO.

An 03/01/05 amendment adds several board members, including a MacKenzie (no relation?) of Affiliated Financial Services (Joneen Krauth later becomes Joneen MacKenzie) and states purpose:

To advocate and advance the healthiest possible future for all citizens in our service area, by empowering them with the necessary knowledge, skills and support to choose abstinence from sexual activity other than in a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage. To equip, educate and influence the gatekeepers of institutions who are charged with implementing and overseeing programs and policies that affect the health and well being of the citizens of our service area, specifically in the arena of abstinence in preparation for marriage.

(This seems a little obsessive, don’t you think?)  An Executive Committee is set up

On 6/28/2005, the organization is renamed “WAIT TRAINING,” stating this name had been adopted on 5/21/2005.   On 10/26, the group was reminded to send in its annual report by 11/1, and by 11/29, they  apparently did.  On 2/1/2007 they had a “Change of Status” for:  failure to file report, what else?.  2/22/0, a post card was sent out saying, mail it in by 3/1, and as of 3/14, it appears they did.  Notice a pattern here, yet?

In case you don’t believe this is actually a pattern, here’s the rest of the filings on this multi-million federal grantee:

the “Change of agent” shows Ms. Krauth became Ms. MacKenzie…

Notice the record goes through the year 2009, but never does it claim that WAIT TRAINING (name change from the original) ever became “The Center for Relationship Training” — does it?  No.

The corporation “Center for Relationship Training” (not “THE Center for ….”) was actually a holding nonprofit company (I’m gathering) which had a 3-month existence and then was dissolved, in Fall 2009, same registrant:

Found 2 matching record(s).  Viewing page 1 of 1.

#	Event	Date Filed	Date Posted	EffectiveDate	Document # (click to view)	Comment
1	Articles of Incorporation	09/04/2009	09/04/2009	09/04/2009 09:14 AM	20091473860
2	Articles of Dissolution	12/15/2009	12/15/2009	12/15/2009 11:01 AM	20091654454

Thus it actually had an existence of literally just over 3 months.  As a matter of fact, this dovetailed neatly with two other short-lived corporations under Ms. Joneen — ALL THREE were formed on the same date:

Found 4 matching record(s).  Viewing page 1 of 1.

#	ID #	Entity Name	Entity Type	Date Filed	Entity Status
1	20091474442	Relationship Wellness Foundation	Nonprofit Corporation	09/04/2009	DQ
2	20091474397	Relationship Wellness Institute	Corporation	09/04/2009	DQ
3	20031350604	The Center for Relationship Education	Nonprofit Corporation	11/06/2003	GOOD
4	20091473860	Center for Relationship Education, Dissolved December 15, 2009	Nonprofit Corporation	09/04/2009	VDISS

OK:  The “Relational Wellness Foundation (NONprofit) was formed about mid-day on 9/4/09  as a nonprofit, and within hours, its name was changed to ” Relationship Wellness Foundation,” after which it never filed, and eventually was dissolved because of this.  Did any monies go through it, was anything done?

It appears that the For Profit corp “Institute” (line 2 above) went through the same process, simultaneous with the “Center for Relationship Education” (also dissolved), while meantime, the group “WAIT Training (founded 11/06/2003) somehow continued, as a nonprofit, but heck if I can see when THAT corporation ever filed for its new name, THE Center for Relationship Education as changed from “WAIT Training.”

However, on their website, it claims this change happened in 2010 because of increased scope of services (oh?  since when was abstinence education as the main “thrust” ever off the board, or any articles of corporation incorporate any other purpose?):

Here is the (or at least one of the) current website, http://www.myrelationshipcenter.org/Home%20Page

The website banner, with an icon of One figure, reads “The Center For Relationship Education” and has logos to “Healthy Marriage Project”  and below it “WAIT Training and Resources.”

On the “History” page, no start date is given, just Joneen’s anecdote explaining why the group began.  If you read it all, finally the name change is explained (although looks to me like WAIT Training is still alive and well as a name, or trademark):

In 2010 the WAIT Training agency changed its name to the Center for Relationship Education to more accurately reflect the broad scope of work we accomplish through:

• Relationship Education for students
• Marriage Education for singles, engaged, and married couples
• Promoting Responsible Fatherhood
• Divorce Recovery, Starting Over and Skill Building (for future relationships)

This website in fine print at the bottom, is  Co. 2011 in fine print at the bottom

and the logo (again, stating the company name is “C.R.E.” although that was clearly dissolved on 12/15/2009)   {{IMAGE LINK EXPIRED/ BLANK SPACE REMOVED//2019]]

(which group charges a % of one’s revenue for membership privileges too; i.e., sliding scale, even when your $$ comes from the federal government, I guess).

Like many groups, it is specializing in training the trainers.  The two co-founders had a busy fall, and if you’re fast, you can get to a WAIT Training (how to persuade teenagers not to have sex) seminar in Tallahassee, FL and go see visit NARME offices, which apparently are there, too:

Upcoming WAIT Training Certification Seminars

September 9-10 – WAIT Training – Denver (Aurora), CO – Trainer: Shelly Donahue

September 14-15 – WAIT Training – Pueblo, CO – Trainer: Shelly Donahue

September 17 – Medical (Sexual) Cessation – Greeley, CO – Trainer: Shelly Donahue

September 22-23 – WAIT Training – Fitzgerald, GA – Trainer: Shelly Donahue  (GEORGIA??)

October 20-21 – WAIT Training – Tallahassee, FL – Trainer: Joneen Mackenzie

November 4-5 – WAIT Training – Parachute, CO – Shelly Donahue

Sometimes I wonder if any of the adult promoters of all this are simply engaged in sex-less marriages** and just want to make sure the teens are not having more fun.  WIth the amount of grants flowing this direcdtion, surely the parents should be able to have a little fun themselves, although clearly filing the “tricky” 2-page annual report isn’t nearly so much fun as filing electronically to set up another corporation at the same street address as the prior ones….

(**although a WAIT Training RipOff report claims Joneen divorced since starting the organization).

THIS SITE is selling a lot of materials for $150-$199/each (DOWNLOADABLE — very high profit margin), and recommending $299 trainings to go along with them.  See “STORE” and This is only one of 5 items up there:)  As such, I believe it should be required to file!

SEARCH PRODUCTS

PRODUCTS Curriculum Books Tool Kits DVDs Accessories

WHY IT MATTERS?  THIS IS WHY:

  Notice:  “DUNS” # is blank for this first $175,000 grant — however to do business with the gov’t one is to have a DUNS#.  This group is WAIT training….  But I couldn’t hae known this for sure without a visit to the STate of Colorado Secretary of state.  Notice, this IS called a “NONprofit” although I dare you to find an EIN# or report for that year:  Also notice they are indifferent cities & counties ….

Taking that DUNS# to another database (understanding that the $175K won’t register) I find out that USASpending.gov isn’t registering everything either — or TAGGS is overreporting?

• Total Dollars:$6,370,289
• Transactions:1 – 13 of 13

of which 11 are grants:

• Total Dollars:$6,357,789
• Transactions:1 – 11 of 11

The difference between this representing a purchase order for 2 marriage retreats for the Dept. of Defense:

• Total Dollars:$12,500
• Transactions:1 – 2 of 2

(from “TAGGS”)

ALSO INTERESTING (if you do a timeline on USASPending.gov, with the DUNS# and no other select)

you’ll see clearly that this database has recorded NO expenditures pre-2007.   I also note that it was able to pick up both corporate names of WAIT, where TAGGS did not.

AWARD ACTIONS

Showing: 1 – 1 of 1 Award Actions

I was pretty sure it was the same group, given that when I click on that grant (CCU823730), the only other recipient is WAIT training: Year one was the 2003 incorporation, and like I say, soon after the name had changed.

Would you like to know what that “CCU” grant was really about?  with a little TAGGS hunt & peck, I found 101 “CCU” grants in Colorado (had to limit it somehow!) and then, viewing the CFDA#s, deduced that this one was CFDA 93938.  Marked only as the obscure acronym, “SHEPSA” on the search field, we find the truth is coming out:

This is — at least as far as WAIT is concerned, I’ll danged well bet you! — HIV Prevention by way of Abstinence Education, cooperative agreement with the Colorado Department of Education.  starting in about 2002:  here you go!  Someone had to do this, so I figure I will, sorry if the cart exceeds the margins:

(TAGGS Advanced Search, Selected on:  Colorado, CFDA 93938, Grant (I just typed in “CCU”), years:  ALL and the fields you see below as Columns for the report):

I’m interested in the Rocky Mountain ALternatives group, and googled “Joyner Simms, Ph.D. :  SourceWatch shows him active in Tallahassee, FL (where Joneen’s membership group NARME recently incorporated), is this the same?

Dr. Sims was located at University of South Florida, College of Public Health, 13201 N. Bruce B. Downs Blvd. (MDC 56), Tampa, Florida 33612-3805; Phone (913) 974-6644; Fax (813) 974-6741.

This may be a more current information on Dr. Sims:

Joyner Sims, Ph.D.
Manager, Public Policy
DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals
1555 Delaney Drive, Apt. 101
Tallahassee, Florida 32308
Phone: 850/906-0725
Fax: 850/906-0755

An inset to this publication (page 4) explains how CDC/DASH (Dept of Adolescent School Health Programs) is announcing a new health intitiative competitive grant offering (2003) around HIV Prevention, which includes abstinence.  It explains that Dr. Joyner was hired by CDC/DASH.  The newsletter is dated Sept 2003, and announces the grant series available, a very narrow window (announced 10/6/2003, letter of intent due by 11/8/2003) for Letters for Notice of Intent.  Page 4 explains what’s happening, above.  By the way, not only in Colorado, I”m sure!

The Rocky Mountain Health Center (TAGGS) has two listings; one (like  the “Abstinence Relationship Training Center, above) has no DUNS# and seems to be the same grants purpose, found by EIN# (which I found on a 990-finder).

Recipient EIN = 742357255

Showing: 1 – 2 of 2 Recipients

UNlike WAIT Training, it’s been around a long time (since 1983), has not repeatedly shape-shifted or changed its names, and appears to have been filing its tax returns.  Details show:

AWARD ACTIONS

Showing: 1 – 4 of 4 Award Actions

Moreover, using the DUNS# from “WAIT Training” (TAGGS search result above, #137401704) we see there’s far more than $9 million involved here, plus the initial $175K that was not listed under any DUNS# in 2004, with its first incorporation name:

RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD 2011 HHS GRANTEES

RESPSONSIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTEES

Legal Name Organization	City	State	Award Amount
Cook Inlet Tribal Council	Anchorage	AK	$800,000
Alabama Department of Finance	Montgomery	AL	$2,500,000
Children’s Institute Inc.	Los Angeles	CA	$2,500,000
Fresno County Economic Oppt Commission	Fresno	CA	$782,002
Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program	El Centro	CA	$798,928
The East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU)	Los Angeles	CA	$799,999
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego	San Diego	CA	$790,927
Friends Outside in Los Angeles County	Pasedena	CA	$518,067
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles	Los Angeles	CA	$784,521
Archuleta County Department of Human Services	Pagosa Spring	CO	$442,291
County of Montrose	Montrose	CO	$574,524
Catholic Charities, Inc. Arch. Of Hartford	Hartford	CT	$800,000
National Organization of Concerned Black Men	Washington	DC	$799,999
Healthy Families/Thriving Communities	Washington	DC	$1,533,518
Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Sarasota-Manatee	Sarasota	FL	$799,984
Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc.	Marshalltown	IA	$765,433
McDermott Center dba Haymarket Center	Chicago	IL	$796,393
Springfield Urban League, Inc.	Springfield	IL	$1,387,327
Gateway Community Services Organization	West Liberty	KY	$799,999
Council on Prevention & Eductaion (COPES)	Louisville	KY	$549,673
Lexington Leadership Foundation	Lexington	KY	$449,113
Supportive Integrated Services	Shreveport	LA	$537,537
Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency	Pontiac	MI	$432,251
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	Minneapolis	MN	$709,385
Goodwill Industries, Inc.	Saint Paul	MN	$1,772,546
Father’s Support Center St. Louis, Inc.	St. Louis	MO	$1,530,190
Connection to Success	Kansas City	MO	$702,553
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes	Pablo	MT	$2,440,131
New Jersey Department of Corrections (Re-Entry)	Trenton	NJ	$1,039,049
PB&J Family Services, Inc (Re-Entry)	Albequrque	NM	$1,476,500
Structured Employment Economic Dev. Corp	New York	NY	$2,500,000
EAC, Inc.	Hempstead	NY	$533,040
Retreat, Inc.	East Hampton	NY	$786,000
Chautauqua Opportunities, Inc.	Dunkirk	NY	$618,031
Family Services of Westchester, Inc.	Port Chester	NY	$543,906
The Fortune Society, Inc.	Long Island	NY	$725,000
WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc.	Fremont	OH	$560,000
The RIDGE Project, Inc. (Re-Entry)	Defiance	OH	$1,500,000
The RIDGE Project, Inc.	Defiance	OH	$2,500,000
Employment Opportunity Training Center	Scranton	PA	$379,755
People for People, Inc.	Philadelphia	PA	$648,273
Goodwill Industries of Southwestern PA	Pittsburgh	PA	$799,952
Children’s Friend and Service	Providence	RI	$735,527
Lutheran Social Service of South Dakota (Re-Entry)	Sioux Falls	SD	$1,229,141
Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority	Morristown	TN	$416,063
Shelby County Government	Memphis	TN	$797,809
Metro Nashville Public Health Department	Nashville	TN	$1,589,107
Goodwill Industries of Central Texas	Austin	TX	$623,965
Southwest Key Programs, Inc.	Austin	TX	$799,594
Horizon Outreach	Spring	TX	$480,732
Tarrant County Workforce Dev. Brd	Ft.Worth	TX	$2,106,804
Youth and Family Alliance dba LifeWorks	Austin	TX	$600,000
Child & Family Services of Eastern VA	Norfolk	VA	$471,156
Total Action Against Poverty/Roanoke Valley	Roanoke	VA	$766,515
Visiting Nurse Association of Chittendon	Colchester	VT	$390,600
Northwest Marriage Institute	Vancouver	WA	$747,281
Milwaukee County Dept. of Child Support	Milwaukee	WI	$1,806,892
ADVOCAP, Inc.	Fund du Lac	WI	$776,994
Kanawha Institute for Social Research (KISRA)	Dunbar	WV	$2,351,675
Total Award Amount			$59,396,652