🚨9 Dark Money Sources Funding The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) by @sayerjigmi
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#1 Paul Hamlyn Foundation
A UK charity, founded in 1972, it describes itself as "an independent grant-making foundation, making grants to individuals and organisations in the UK to help people overcome disadvantage." The foundation's trustees include the former General-Director of the BBC Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, and Sir Anthony Saltz, former Board of Governer of the BBC. On Oct. 4th, 2021, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation gave CCDH a £100,000 grant earmarked for "Growing the digital presence and impact of Center for Countering Digital Hate." [Source: GrantNav]
#2 Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
A UK charity founded in 1961, and one of the UK's largest independent funders, it describes its mission: "to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future, and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK." On October 20, 2021, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation gave CCDH a £200,000 grant earmarked: "Towards core costs including the salary of the head of digital, to disrupt the spread of online hate and misinformation." A second grant was awarded Jan 30th 2023 for £13,333 earmarked: "Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift." [Source: GrantNav]
#3 Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
A UK-based organization, it is is one of three grant making trusts, independent of each other, set up in 1904 by Quaker businessman Joseph Rowntree. JRRT was set up as limited company, not a charity, able to fund political causes. Funder of CCDH's oldest grant on record, £53,400 was awarded on Dec. 11, 2020, under the title "Project Whistleblower: to create and operate a secure whistleblower portal to empower internal dissidents within social media companies." [Source: GrantNav]
#4 Oak Foundation
According to InfluenceWatch, "The Oak Foundation (and its U.S. affiliate Oak Foundation USA) is a left-leaning environmentalist grantmaking foundation. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Oak Foundation was formed in 1983 and maintains offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Bulgaria, India, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania." According to it's 2020 Annual Report, they provided CCDH with a $100,000 earmarked with the following description: "To support Centre for Countering Digital Hate by shining a spotlight on digital misinformation platforms that are polluting the public discourse on issues such as climate action, women's rights, and racial equality."
#5 Barrow Cadbury Trust
A UK charity founded in 1920 by a Quaker family known most for its chocolate business, ostensibly to "tackle profound social ills, including juvenile crime and urban poverty." Listed on CCDH's original "About Us" page here as a funder, the details of how much it contributed, and if it still an active contributor are unknown. Noteworthy is that one of CCDH's officiers, SARAN, Sarah Ayesha is also Barrow Cadbury Trust's Migration programme manager. [Source: CCDH Archive]
#6 Laura Kinsella Foundation
A UK charity registered in Jan 6, 2012, set up by Stephen Kinsella OBE, a commercial solicitor. There is no public website for the foundation, so little is known about what it does, or who runs it. It is Listed on CCDH's original "About Us" page here as a funder, without details of how much it contributed or if it still actively involved. [Source: CCDH Archive]
#7 Pears Foundation
A UK charity established in 1991 focused on Israel-related projects, including combating anti-semitism, and whose income is generated by the William Pears Group (a property company) contributed to CCDH a total of 150k pounds, 50k in 2019-2020, and 100k in 2021-2022. Not only does the Pears foundation donate to global organizations such as UNICEF, but they themselves receive government funding, making it difficult to know if these foundations are simply front organizations funneling taxpayer money into organizations effectively suppressing the rights and speech of those taxpayers. For instance, The U.K. Dept for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport awarded a 5,00,000 pound grant to The Pears Foundation earmarked to "respond to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalised people affected by the COVID-19 crisis, " in Sept of 2020: [Source: GrantNav]
#8 Hopewell Foundation
According to InfluenceWatch, "The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropy consulting firm." According to its website, "The Hopewell Fund is a 501(c)(3) public charity that specializes in helping donors, social entrepreneurs, and other changemakers quickly launch new, innovative social change projects." Notorious for being a dark money source for astroturfing campaigns from the political Left, CCDH received a $15,000 grant from Hopewell in 2021, according to InfluenceWatch.
#9 Unbound Philanthropy
A tax-exempt 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2003 (unstaffed until 2008), the organization is a "New York City-based left-wing donor affinity group that primarily funds groups that support left-of-center liberal expansionist immigration policies," and has "close ties to George Soros's Open Society Foundations through the group's executive director, Taryn Higashi. Higashi sits on an advisory board of Open Society Foundations and is an alumna of the left-of-center Ford Foundation, where she worked on immigrant and refugee issues," according to InfluenceWatch. While their website does not list CCDH as a grant recipient, Unbound Philanthrophy is listed on CCDH's original "About Us" page here as a funder, also without details of how much it gave or with what intention. [Source: CCDH Archive]
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9 'Dark Money' Sources Funding CCDH: A Foreign 'Digital Hate' Group Which Used the White House to Quash Free Speech
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The Center for Countering Digital Hate's April 2020 archive states the organization's funding sources are:
-Barrow Cadbury Trust
-Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
-Laura Kinsella Foundation
-The Pears Foundation
-Unbound Philanthropy
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.@elonmusk, the Center for Countering Digital Hate's December 2019 archived endorsement page lists:
-Jo Cox Foundation
-UK's Commission for Countering Extremism
-Hope Not Hate
-Faith Matters
-Tell MAMA
-Institute for Strategic Dialogue
-Community Security Trust
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"Unbound Philanthropy is a New York City-based left-wing donor affinity group that primarily funds groups that support left-of-center liberal expansionist immigration policies.
Unbound has close ties to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations through the group’s executive director, Taryn Higashi.
Higashi sits on an advisory board of Open Society Foundations.
Notable funders of Unbound Philanthropy include William Reeves and Deborah Berger, a married couple.
Reeves is a financier who co-founded BlueCrest Capital Management, a hedge fund that manages tens of billions of dollars for clients all over the world.
He sits on the board of Third Way, a left-of-center think tank with ties to the Democratic Party."
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Simon Clark is the Chairman of CCDH's Board, a member of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Lab, and a senior fellow at John Podesta's Center for American Progress.
He is a highly partisan actor tasked with advocating for more censorship.
Lindsay Moran is CCDH's former Head of Communications and a self-described "CIA operative."
Add her to the growing list of former US national intelligence officials who are now in the business of censoring American citizens.
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