The Courier Mail: Family Website Accepting ‘Charity’ Donations
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Family Website Accepting ‘Charity’ Donations
The Courier Mail/2005-11-19
A WEBSITE affiliated with The Family accepts credit card donations and direct bank withdrawals but makes no mention of its cult connection. Nor is the “Family Care Foundation” explicit about where it spends money on aid projects, including tsunami relief.
“It’s very clever,” said Paul O’Caflaghan, executive director of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), Australia’s peak charity body. “It’s about the most general Style of annual report I’ve seen in my life.”
The website accepts contributions from foreign countries, but records don’t show the foundation as an active registered charity in Australia.
The Family’s Australia spokesman Paul Hartingdon said the foundation did not fundraise in Australia, nor did it have affiliated projects here.
“Certainly there are no Family members who are raising funds for or on behalf of FCF in Australia,” he said.
The ACFID says the Family Care Foundation is not one of its member charities, which must abide by a strict code of conduct.
Foundation executive director Larry Corley has denied ties with The Family, but US newspaper the San Francisco Chronicle reported earlier this year that all six FCF officers had links to it.
