Posts Tagged ‘Community Center Authority (Kent County MD)’
Faith-Based Incorporations (HHS grantees) often Don’t Stand Up under Scrutiny (Publ. Sep. 17, 2012, Format update May 2, 2018).
This short intro added May, 2018, for the purposes of a basic FamilyCourtMatters.org (blog) search of “faith-based” which I wish to link to in Twitter, after further explaining (again) on Twitter some of this and especially the earlier “Oklahoma Marriage Initiative.”
Far be it from ME to say “kickback” — but I feel it’s a reasonable question to say, “Whassup?”
How hard is it to file an annual tax return, and why do so many of these grantees “forget” to — like this one? Maryland Dept of Assessments and Taxation says it was formed in 2004 and is now status “Forfeited” [{{as it turned out. by 2006}}]
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I suppose they are all doing great things for the community. In looking up (naturally) Vita T. Pickrum, I found minutes of a Commissioners Meeting (Mr. Pickrum, presiding) and that she represents (under a CCA they are trying to raise money for, the “Kent Family Center.”
In other words, your (USA-specific) tax funds helped both set up of expand (93009) , then facilitate among many of the same grantees, the practice of taking money originally intended to reduce poverty for sponsoring for-profit and not-for-profit organizations of the mentality that what the poor really need is a good “talking to” (being preached at) (through 93086).
This includes people whose marriages have been violent and may for that reason be reluctant to engage in serial marriage behaviors (I am in that category), but would appreciate NOT being targeted and categorized as a social scourge when it’s also known that domestic violence can also be economically devastating and corrosive.
As few people can discuss either domestic violence or religion in a sane (or logical) manner, in this blog I document federal grants and look at the grantees — many of which “coincidentally” have the word “faith-based” in their actual names, particularly after January 2001 when a U.S. President inaugurated with his first (two, actually) Executive Orders, an “Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives” (continued by Pres. Obama under slightly different name, and copied, I learned at the state (typically “Governor’s Office of…”) and even some City (“Mayor’s Office of..”) levels. Naturally, these also promote fatherhood and target single mothers for the lectures and (behind their backs, in third person) as the problems.
Post title and shortlink: Faith-Based Incorporations (HHS grantees) often Don’t Stand Up under Scrutiny (Publ. Sep. 17, 2012, Format update May 2, 2018)
Update affects borders, font type and size, background color, not CONTENT, except my habit adopted later of including full title with convenient “case-sensitive short-link ending” phrase (here, it ends “-17w”) and word-count (about 7,500). The post has many tables whose formats may be affected; I did not go through and correct them all. PURPOSE: I did a blog search on “faith-based”. This came up, and I wanted it more readable. NOTE: Currently, my tables of contents only go back to Sept. 24, 2012, so this post will not be on it. As I recall. ALSO: contains a word-search of “faith-based” on TAGGS.HHS.gov/SearchAdv (current link; the database has changed since 2012) and follow up on them. One of the entities checked tracked back to a government official, and the nonprofit “took the money and ran” while the public servant and his wife then participated in creating another local “Authority” and sat with others on its board. The amount “disappeared” possibly, only around $100K, but still…
The Republicans were up in arms again, declaring (hypocritically) that the best way out of poverty was a job, while diverting money into starting new professions for (cronies), who then buy up real estate and practice franchise marriage/fatherhood/parenting educational marketing on the poor. The profits are going, apparently, into whoever was in on this early enough to have a trademarked curriculum (downloadable of course) AND close connections to Washington, D.C. and the Department of HHS. The Democrats bought into this just as heavily and in my opinion are no better.
Not all “faith-based” groups actually have the word “faith-based” in their corporations, but it’s probably a good call that they are aware of that 2001 Executive Order by the POTUS with the agenda of helping streamline grants to “faith-based” organizations.
Pray tell, what have “COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY GRANTS BUILT — AFTER THE FAITH-BASED CORPORATIONS GOT THE THESE FUNDS?
AND WHY CAN’T THESE “SPECIAL INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS” (many of them) STAY INCORPORATED AFTER THEY GOT THE GOODS? THE GRANTS ARE NEW, DISCRETIONARY, AND “DEMONSTRATION.” I’VE BEEN LOOKING AT WHAT THEY DEMONSTRATED, AND LEARNED THAT, AS WITH THE THEOLOGY, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO “TAKE IT ON FAITH,” THAT THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT WAS AN HONEST ONE.
Category of Federal Domestic Assistance 93009
ANYHOW — I just now (again) looked up HHS grants to a certain series, the “90IJ” series, which are Federal “CFDA” (Category of Federal Domestic Assistance) 93009, “Compassion Capital.” I also plugged in the word “faith” under Grantee name, chose a few fields, and here are 14 of them; it’s higher than “11” because there is more than one entry for a few of them. I notice one is a welfare department. How can a government grantee called “faith-based” be a welfare department?
Below this, I looked at a single group in Maryland. It was chosen at random, however, as I saw within 10 minutes that (1) as soon as it got its second grant, it stopped filing for corporate status as a nonprofit (and I haven’t even checked the “Nonprofit” part yet…) and that the person listed on the corporation was a County Commissioner. This is how government works in the US of A….
As such, they can keep their lectures about work ethics, theories about what causes poverty and TANF to themselves, and give me back all the tax money I spent over the years, so far as I’m concerned. Or, cut me in on some of the asset acquisitions & public real estate paid for with missing money!
Again, I’m speaking as a mother who sought government intervention to keep my family alive via a domestic violence restraining order with kickout, and when I say “family” like many, I include Dad, too. I then went back to work, and found myself repeatedly OUT of work through the removal of same restraining order (the DV agency just did triage, and didn’t see fit to give its clients a road map of the family law system. So I’m writing one here (and elsewhere!).
FYI (because otherwise the chart is too wide), ALL of these were “Demonstration” “Discretionary” and “NEW” grants. I searched “Grant Number “90IJ” (only) and typed the word “faith” into “Grantee Institution.” That’s all. If I took out the word “faith” (for in the grantee institution name) there would be 39 total, including at least one with the word “abstinence” in the name.
Based on a sampling of several of these (LOTS of lookups), I’d say that statistically speaking, the chance that the word “faith” in these CCF grants (especially if it’s “faith-based” in the name) means a higher probability that the organization doesn’t stay incorporated, and might be a scam.
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| Grantee Name | Grantee Address | City | Sta | Award Number | Award Title | Action Issue Date | Principal Investig. | DUNS # | Sum of Actions |
| ALL FAITH COUNSELING CENTER OF ATCHISON, INC. | 1225 NORTH 2ND STREET | ATCHISON | KS | 90IJ0869 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM/RURAL | 08/07/2007 | JANELLE MAES | 164390783 | $ 45,005 |
| Alta Vista Faith-Based Initiative Corporation | 421 Cross Timbers Dr. | Double Oak | TX | 90IJ0624 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM – MARRIAGE | 09/23/2006 | ROBERT CHAVEZ | 361452084 | $ 50,000 |
| Arkansas Faith in Action State Coalition, Inc. | 8223 East Elm Street | BENTON | AR | 90IJ0848 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND PROGRAM – RURAL | 08/04/2007 | CAROL H SMITH | 796366990 | $ 50,000 |
| Arkansas Faith in Action State Coalition, Inc. | 8223 East Elm Street | BENTON | AR | 90IJ0848 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND PROGRAM – RURAL | 03/04/2011 | Carol Smith | 796366990 | $- 4,070 |
| BRADFORD COUNTY FAITH COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. | P.O. BOX 101 | STARKE | FL | 90IJ0867 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM/ RURAL | 08/04/2007 | ELAINE SLOCUM | 168089188 | $ 28,419 |
| FAITH`S HOPE FOUNDATION | 2271 W. MALVERN AVENUE | FULLERTON | CA | 90IJ0891 | CCF-TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM – YOUTH | 08/30/2007 | MOLLY STICKLER | 176309040 | $ 50,000 |
| Faith Strength and Power, Inc. | 24840 Lambs Meadow Rd | Worton | MD | 90IJ0265 | THE COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM ? RURAL | 09/22/2005 | VITA T PICKRUM | 193326381 | $ 49,950 |
| Faith Strength and Power, Inc. | 24840 Lambs Meadow Rd | Worton | MD | 90IJ0659 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM – YOUTH | 09/22/2006 | VITA T PICKRUM | 193326381 | $ 49,998 |
| Faith Temple Christian Center | 836 Ferndale Avenue | ROCK-LEDGE | FL | 90IJ0872 | CCF-TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING – YOUTH | 09/08/2007 | PAMELA R LYONS | 829655927 | $ 50,000 |
| Faith Unlimited Institute | 229 Bristol Street | SPFLD | MA | 90IJ0591 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED BUILDING PROGRAM – MARRIAGE | 09/20/2006 | JOSEPH NICHOLSON | 093133895 | $ 50,000 |
| Hands of Faith, Inc. | 737 Bluff Street | BELOIT | WI | 90IJ0195 | COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM – HOMELESS | 09/17/2005 | JEFF HOYT | $ 33,334 | |
| Inter-Faith Ministries Wichita, Inc. | 829 N Market | WICHITA | KS | 90IJ0280 | THE COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM – RURAL | 09/21/2005 | KAREN DOBBIN | 113265607 | $ 50,000 |
| Inter-Faith Ministries Wichita, Inc. | 829 N Market | WICHITA | KS | 90IJ0561 | THE COMPASSION CAPITAL FUND (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM – HOMELESS | 09/14/2006 | SAMUEL L MUYSKENS | 113265607 | $ 50,000 |
| Iowa Center for Faith Based & Community Initiatives | 1725 S. 50th St. | W DES MOINES | IA | 90IJ0859 | THE COMPASSION CAPITAL (CCF) TARGETED CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM-RURAL | 08/04/2007 | DR DARYL VANDER-WILT | 189950996 | $ 50,000 |
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All discretionary, all demonstration. Notice how all the amounts are fairly small. Some will go on to receive much nicer amounts (over $1 million), others will be content with their $50K or $99K and then evaporate. Do the math — how often does this happen, really? See below for another chart minus the word “faith” in the same grant series…
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Some of these may be legitimate. Others need maybe a little more “compassion” from me, after I have finished looking at their “Compassion Capital” grants, then their Corporate status records, then — in general, begun to wonder, seriously — why HHS keeps giving Compassion Capital Grants (which are like free capital – something most of us don’t get easily) — to Corporations that don’t stay incorporated? And how many of the CEO’s are already employed in local government? How many are also related to prior HUD grants or Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)?
Far be it from ME to say “kickback” — but I feel it’s a reasonable question to say, “Whassup?”
How hard is it to file an annual tax return, and why do so many of these grantees “forget” to — like this one? Maryland Dept of Assessments and Taxation says it was formed in 2004 and is now status “Forfeited”
Charter Search Results for: FAITH STRENGTH POWER
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| (D10229490) | FAITH, STRENGTH AND POWER, INC. | General Info. | Amendments | Personal Property | FORFEITED |
Dept ID #: D10229490
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Are these people incorporating and then suddenly losing their incorporating just well-meaning, low-income, church folk who don’t understand business? I don’t know, but here’s William R. Pickrum — County Commissioner and Local Management Board of Children and Family Services (long enough to get this grant, apparently!) — so where’d THAT $100K go??? Probably this is the same person, right?
KENT COUNTY, MARYLAND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
![[photo, William W. Pickrum, Board of County Commissioners, Kent County]](https://i0.wp.com/www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/ke/leg/images/1198-1-2265b.jpg)
WILLIAM W. PICKRUM, Member, Board of County Commissioners (Democrat) County Government Center, 400 High St., Chestertown, MD 21620 (410) 778-7435; fax: (410) 778-7482 e-mail: kentcounty@kentgov.org
Member, Board of County Commissioners, Kent County, since December 2002 (president, 2002-06).
*(*(Member, Airport Advisory Committee, Kent County, 2002-06; Central Communications Commission, Kent County, 2002-06; Local Emergency Planning Committee, Kent County, 2002-06; Local Management Board for Children and Family Services, Kent County, 2002-06; Board of Health, Kent County,, 2002-; Maryland Rural Broadband Coordination Board, 2006-10; Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, Kent County, 2006-. Board of Directors, Upper Shore Aging, 2006-. Member, Service Academy Selection Committee, 2009-. Chair, Upper Shore Regional Council, 2011- (member, 2002-; chair, 2006; 3rd vice-chair, 2009; 2nd vice-chair, 2010; 1st vice-chair, 2010-11).
Served in U.S. Coast Guard. Member, Legislative Committee, Maryland Association of Counties, 2011- (tax subcommittee, 2011-). Founding member and treasurer, Democratic Club of Kent County. Married; two children, three grandchildren.
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