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Fundadores:

Herederos de Arthur DeMoss

Presidente:

Robert G. DeMoss

Gerente:

Nancy DeMoss

Autora del libro ‘The Rebirth of America’, editado por la fundación

Año de fundación:

1979

Sede:

West Palm Beach, Florida

Origen de la riqueza

Seguros

Agencia de PR:

DeMoss Group

Empresas

National Liberty Corporation

Activos de la fundación

$404,000,000 (2004)

Misión declarada

Promulgar el Evangelio cristiano en todo el mundo por cualquiera y todos los medios apropiados, incluyendo, sin ánimo de limitación, la asistencia técnica a misioneros y grupos de misioneros, el soporte de pastores, evangelistas, misioneros, predicadores y todo aquél que esté comprometido con el Evangelio cristiano, la impresión y distribución de literatura cristiana, Biblias y folletos, y el soporte y operación de medios de comunicación audiovisuales, todo ello sin ánimo de lucro.

Orientación religiosa

Reconstruccionista

Algunos libros editados

Nancy DeMoss (1986): The Rebirth of America
Torri Walters (1999): Power for Living – distribuido gratuitamente via una potente campaña mediática que costó $27,800,000, más que una campaña presidencial.

Organismos que han recibido financiación:

Sólo organismos de negacionismo climático, presión ultraliberal o fundamentalismo religioso. Sólo financiación documentada.

Think tanks

American Center for Law and Justice (Organización jurídica de Pat Roberson): $1,600 (1997)

Contribuciones políticas

GOPAC (Comité de Acción Política de Newt Gingrich): $70,000 (1993)

Evangelización fundamentalista

Africa Ministries $1,680,000

The Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) $279,020, así como para otros proyectos específicos, entre los que se encuentran:

CCC Asia Impact Campus Expansion $649,103
CCC Eastern Europe $2.35 million
CCC Haennssler $430,000
CCC Romania $263,162

Confederation of Independent States Ministries $6,470,000
Fellowship of Christan Athletes, Kansas $75,000
Free Congress Foundation $75,000
Human Life Alliance of Minnesota $96,290
Josh McDowell Ministry, Alpine California $530,969
Life Action Ministries, Niles Missouri $1,134,333
Moody Institute, Chicago $1,255,600
Plymouth Rock Foundation

Organización reconstruccionista cuyo objetivo es imponer la Ley Bíblica en los Estados Unidos.

Prison Fellowship Ministries $3,300,000
Samaritan’s Purse, Boone North Carlina $975,495
Servant Group International, Nashville Tennessee $245,500
Southeast Asia Ministries $956,166
World of Life Fellowship, Schroon Lake, NY $329,985
World Impact, Los Angeles $300,000
World Sports, Inc, Bonito Springs Florida $196,096

The foundation’s 1997 tax filings show both sides of the group’s character. Of $25 million in expenditures, some $9 million paid for foreign evangelism. Domestically, roughly the same amount was put into a TV campaign for youth abstinence («You’re worth waiting for»). Thus three-fourths of DeMoss’s giving qualifies as relatively noncontroversial. However, $1.6 million went to the American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit law firm founded by Pat Robertson that opposes gay marriage, defends abortion protesters and promotes various types of school prayer.

Fuentes

Referencias

Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation – Sourcewatch – 22/02/2009  – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_S._DeMoss_Foundation
“The group also noted that in January 1999 the Palm Beach Post revealed that the foundation contributed to the Plymouth Rock Foundation, a Christian Reconstructionist-aligned group «that seeks to impose ‘biblical law’ on America.”

Bettijane Levine – Inspired to Give Something for Nothing . . . What’s the Catch? – Los Angeles Times, 19/01/1999 – http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18884/power-for-living
“Since DeMoss’ death, his wife has run the foundation, and does not grant interviews. Nor do his children, who are all active in foundation work and other evangelical Christian causes. One son, Mark, worked for Jerry Falwell before starting a Christian public relations agency of his own. A daughter, Nancy Leigh, works for Life Action Ministries. Deborah DeMoss was a staffer for Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.).”

David Van Biema  – Who Are Those Guys? – Time Magazine – 01/08/1999 – http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,28859-2,00.html
“The foundation’s 1997 tax filings show both sides of the group’s character. Of $25 million in expenditures, some $9 million paid for foreign evangelism. Domestically, roughly the same amount was put into a TV campaign for youth abstinence («You’re worth waiting for»). Thus three-fourths of DeMoss’s giving qualifies as relatively noncontroversial. However, $1.6 million went to the American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit law firm founded by Pat Robertson that opposes gay marriage, defends abortion protesters and promotes various types of school prayer.”

Power for Living – Wikipedia – Visitado el 24/04/2014 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_for_Living
“The Foundation has used its abundant financial resources to promote Power for Living in the United States, Germany, Mexico (Fuerza para Vivir) and, most recently, Japan. In Japan, television advertisements related to religion are generally considered to be taboo, although Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, Souka Gakkai, etc., have all produced advertisements for television. The Foundation’s advertisements were declared «religious propaganda» by Germany’s Federal Broadcasting Council in January, 2002, and as such their broadcast is prohibited in Germany.”