Concerned Women for America

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the organization founded by Beverly LaHaye, wife of conservative activist Tim LaHaye, in 1979.

CWA seeks to "bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy." Its activities center around six "core issues": family, sanctity of human life, education, pornography, religious liberty, and national soverignty.

Anyone who donates any dollar amount (even as little as $1.00) to the organization is then counted among the membership. CWA claims to have "over 500,000" members.

In 2001 the CWA initiated the Culture and Family Institute, headed by Robert Knight, which is intended to "focus. . . with particular emphasis on the homosexual activist movement and other forces that threaten to undermine marriage, family and religious freedom." Knight left CWA in 2006 to head the Culture and Media Institute at the Media Research Center.

CWA operates a think tank, the Beverly LaHaye Institute. It also operates a political action committee, Concerned Women PAC, and a legislative action committee, CWALAC.

Personnel

 * Beverly LaHaye - founder and chairman
 * Wendy Wright - president
 * Janice Shaw Crouse - senior fellow, Beverly LaHaye Institute

Former personnel

 * Matt Barber - policy director for cultural issues, now with Liberty University Law School and Liberty Counsel

Contact Information
Concerned Women for America 1015 Fifteenth St. N.W., Suite 1100 Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: (202) 488-7000 FAX: (202) 488-0806 Website: http://www.cwfa.org

Funding

 * The organization received $1.5 million from the Center to Protect Patient Rights.


 * Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation

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