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There are a number of organizations founded, run, or supported by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church. Commentators have mentioned Moon's belief in a literal Kingdom of Heaven on earth to be brought about by human effort as a motivation for his establishment of groups that are not strictly religious in their purposes. Others have said that one purpose of these groups is to pursue social respectability for the church. Together with the church and its members and supporters, these organizations constitute the Unification Movement.

For legal and tax purposes in several countries, various projects inspired or directed by Sun Myung Moon or members of his church are required to maintain existence as separate entities. Under United States federal tax law, 501(c)(3) charitable institutions, like churches, may not engage in certain types of political speech without losing their tax exempt status. As such, Moon, the Unification Church, and members of the church have created organisations such as Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) which operate under the less stringent requirements of a 501(c)(4) "non-profit, educational foundation".

Multi-faceted organizations

CARP

The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) is a collegiate organization founded either by Sun Myung Moon himself or by his followers. Church historian Mike Mickler wrote,

"The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), founded by church members at Waseda University, Japan, in 1964. began in the United States in November, 1973."

J. Isamu Yamamoto states in Unification Church that "t times CARP has been very subtle about its association with the Unification Church, however, the link between the two has always been strong, since the purpose of both is to spread Moon's teachings."The Philadelphia Inquirer has described it as "the campus arm of the Unification Church".

Sun Myung Moon's son Hyo Jin Moon was its president for ten years, followed by his younger brother Hyun Jin Moon.

Universal Peace Federation

The Universal Peace Federation (UPF), formerly the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP) includes the following organizations and initiatives under its umbrella:

• Ambassadors for Peace
• Global Peace Festival, an international series of festivals under the motto: "One Family Under God."
• International Highway Project
• Middle East Peace Initiative
• World Summit of Leadership and Governance

Hyun Jin Moon was its president for several years, replaced in 2009 by his younger brother Hyung Jin Moon.

Interfaith organizations

• The Assembly of the World's Religions was founded by Sun Myung Moon. The first assembly was held from November 15 to 21, 1985, in MacAfee, New Jersey. The second was from August 15 to 21, 1990 in San Francisco.
• Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace
• American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC)

Educational organizations

• Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology
• International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences
• New World Encyclopedia -- an online encyclopedia which "aims to organize and present human knowledge in ways consistent with our natural purposes."
• The Professors World Peace Academy was founded in 1973 by Sun Myung Moon, who declared the group's intent to "contribute to the solutions of urgent problems facing our modern civilization and to help resolve the cultural divide between East and West". PWPA now has chapters in over one hundred countries. In 1992, following the longest faculty strike in United States academic history, the University of Bridgeport agreed to an arrangement with the Professors World Peace Academy whereby the university would be subsidized by PWPA in exchange for control of the university. The initial agreement was for $50 million, and a majority of board members were to be PWPA members. The next University of Bridgeport president was PWPA president and holocaust theologian Richard Rubenstein (from 1995-1999), and subsequently former U.S. Unification Church president Neil Albert Salonen (2000-present).
• Sun Moon University
• The Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York was founded in 1975. Its purpose is to train members from around the world as leaders and theologians in the church.

Organizations in the arts

• Little Angels Korean folk dance troop.
• Manhattan Center, Theater and recording studio in New York City.
• New York City Symphony
• Universal Ballet, classical ballet company in South Korea.

Sports organizations

• Sun Moon Peace Cup International football (soccer) tournament.

Political organizations

• American Freedom Coalition (AFC), a group which seeks to unite American conservatives on the state level to work toward common goals. The coalition, while independent, receives support from the Unification Church.
• Freedom Leadership Foundation, an anti-communist organization in the United States active in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
• TheConservatives.com political website in partnership with the Heritage Foundation.
• The Summit Council for World Peace is an international group active in Moon's effort to unite North and South Korea.
• Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy
• CAUSA International is an anti-communist educational organization created in New York City in 1980 by members of the Unification Church at the suggestion of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. In the 1980s it was active in 21 countries. In the United States it sponsored educational conferences for evangelical and fundamentalist Christian leaders as well as seminars and conferences for Senate staffers, Hispanic Americans and conservative activists. In 1986 it produced the anti-Communist documentary film Nicaragua Was Our Home.

Businesses

The Unification Church and church members own a number of businesses in various countries. In Eastern Europe Unification Church missionaries are using the church's business ties to win new converts.

David Bromley, a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, said: "The corporate section is understood to be the engine that funds the mission of the church. The wealth base is fairly substantial. But if you were to compare it to the Mormon Church or the Catholic Church or other churches that have massive landholdings, this doesn't look on a global scale like a massive operation."

• AmericanLife TV cable television network formerly owned by the Unification Church.
• Master Marine, shipbuilding and fishing company in Alabama.
• News World Communications is an international media company owned by the church. It owns the Washington Times newspaper in Washington, D.C., United Press International (UPI), Insight Magazine, The World & I, the Middle East Times, Tiempos del Mundo, Segye Ilbo, Segye Times USA, Chongyohak Shinmun, Sekai Nippo, GolfStyles, and the World Peace Herald.
• New Yorker Hotel
• Pyeonghwa Motors, an auto manufacturing company in North Korea.
• As of 1999 the Tongil Group, at that time owned by the Unification Church, was South Korea's 35th largest commercial conglomerate. ("Tongil" is Korean for "unity" or "unification".) It owned over 1 billion USD in real estate in South Korea and was in the process of expanding into North Korea.
• True World Foods, which runs a major portion of the sushi trade in the United States.
• USP Rocketts LLC, a real estate development firm in the United States.

In the United States the church owns fishing interests, which are for-profit businesses and pay taxes. The biggest are in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Alaska and Alabama. In Kodiak, Alaska the church "runs a fleet of fishing boats ... the largest private employer" in Kodiak.

Other organizations

• The Creative Community Project in Boonville and Oakland, California.
• International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF)
• National Committee Against Religious Bigotry and Racism
• Women's Federation for World Peace
• World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)

References

1. Tingle, D. and Fordyce, R. 1979, Phases and Faces of the Moon: A Critical Examination of the Unification Church and its Principles, Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press ISBN 0682492647 p86-87
2. Biermans, J. 1986, The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution, Struggle, Legitimation: A Case Study of the Unification Church Lewiston, New York and Queenston, Ontario: The Edwin Melton Press ISBN 0889467102 p173
3. Helm, S. Divine Principle and the Second Advent Christian Century May 11, 1977 "In fact Moon’s adherents differ from previous fringe groups in their quite early and expensive pursuit of respectability, as evidenced by the scientific conventions they have sponsored in England and the U.S. and the seminary they have established in Barrytown, New York, whose faculty is composed not of their own group members but rather of respected Christian scholars."
4. "In 1955, Reverend Moon established the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP). CARP is now active on many campuses in the United States and has expanded to over eighty nations. This association of students promotes intercultural, interracial, and international cooperation through the Unification world view."
5. Storey, John Woodrow (2002). Religion and Politics. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 99. ISBN 1576072185. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
6. A National Movement Emerges: 1972-74 - A History Of The Unification Church In America 1959-74 - Michael L Mickler
7. Yamamoto, J. (1995). Unification Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. p. 19. ISBN 0310703816. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
8. Conference with Ties to Moon Stirs Dispute, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 26, 1982
9. "Hyo Jin served as president of the World Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (World CARP) from June 18, 1984 to May 22, 1994."
10. Archived 2005-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, World CARP
11. ^ Universal Peace Federation
12. Seminar Demands Representation Of All Religions In Building 'New Nepal' Union of Catholic Asian News, December 3, 2008
13. Event Addresses Human Rights Abuses UPI December 3, 2008
14. Ambassadors for Peace of North America
15. Moonie peace group to hold biggest UK event The Guardian November 21, 2008
16. THE PROPOSAL FOR CONSTRUCTING AN "INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY"
17. Muslim cleric from Edison works for peace in Middle East
18. Bowie resident pushes for peace
19. IIFWP Newsletter, Spring 2003
20. Introduction and Brief History of the Assembly of the World's Religions
21. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace, Sun Myung Moon
22. Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace
23. The Encyclopedia Of Christianity, Erwin Fahlbusch, et al, p598
24. False Dawn, Lee Penn, p122
25. Moonstruck, SF Weekly, 2006-02-22
26. Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology
27. About, Professors World Peace Academy
28. "Project Vision," New World Encyclopedia. Retrieved, June 25, 2008.
29. "The Peace Academy, based in New York, was founded by Moon in 1973. It is financed primarily by his International Cultural Foundation."
30. History of PWPA, Professors World Peace Academy
31. A Rev. Moon Group Offers to Take Over Ailing Bridgeport U., The New York Times, William Glaberson, October 3, 1991.
32. Richard Rubenstein: A Brief Biographical Note
33. Featuring Neil Albert Salonen in The American Chiropractor, July 30, 2005.
34. Financial agreements with PWPA have been terminated and the University has been financially independent since 2004. The University is a licensed and accredited Connecticut nonstock, non-profit corporation with an unpaid Board of Trustees.
35. Sun Moon University
36. Yamamoto, J. I., 1995, Unification Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House ISBN 0310703816 "1. The Unification Theological Seminary a. The Unification Church has a seminary in Barrytown, New York called The Unification Theological Seminary. b. It is used as a theological training center, where members are prepared to be leaders and theologians in the church. c. Since many people regard Moon as a cult leader, there is a false impression that this seminary is academically weak. d. Moon’s seminary, however, has not only attracted a respectable faculty (many of whom are not members of his church), but it also has graduated many students (who are members of his church) who have been accepted into doctoral programs at institutions such as Harvard and Yale.
37. A Church in Flux is Flush with Cash Washington Post, November 23 1997
38. Moon Church Founds Ballet School New York Times, 1990-09-08
39. South Korea to host global peace cup in JulySports Illustrated May 6, 2003
40. ^ Christianity Today: "Unification Church Ties Haunt New Coalition"
41. Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984. "In May, a church political group called the Freedom Leadership Foundation paid for four Republican Senate staff members -- including aides to Sens. Steve Symms (R-Idaho), Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) and William L. Armstrong (R-Colo.) -- to fly to Central America where they met with government leaders and U.S. Embassy officials in Honduras and Guatemala and joined the official U.S. observer delegation to the Salvadoran election."
42. My Four and One Half Years with The Lord of The Flies, Allen Tate Wood "From March to December of 1970 I was head of the Unification Church's political arm in the United States (The Freedom Leadership Foundation). On Moon's behalf we sought to defuse the Peace Movement and buttress the hawk position by convincing senators and congressmen that there was substantial grass roots support for a hard line stand in Asia. In 1969 we were just scratching the surface. Today Moon's organization is in a position of vastly increased power and prestige. Through the Freedom Leadership Foundation and it's descendant CAUSA, Moon has won the gratitude and respect of many congressmen and senators, not to mention former presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush."
43. New moons are rising, Asia Times, October 31, 2009
44. Neil Bush, the Rev. Moon, Paraguay and the U.S. Dept. of Education by Bill Berkowitz, Scoop (New Zealand), 2008-03-29.
45. Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy
46. Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984. "The church also is spending $1.5 million a year on a new local think tank, the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, that is underwriting conservative-oriented research and seminars at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other institutions."
47. "Moon's 'Cause' Takes Aim At Communism in Americas." The Washington Post. August 28, 1983
48. Sun Myung Moon's Followers Recruit Christians to Assist in Battle Against Communism Christianity Today June 15, 1985
49. Church Spends Millions On Its Image, Washington Post, 1984-09-17. "Another church political arm, Causa International, which preaches a philosophy it calls "God-ism," has been spending millions of dollars on expense-paid seminars and conferences for Senate staffers, Hispanic Americans and conservative activists. It also has contributed $500,000 to finance an anticommunist lobbying campaign headed by John T. (Terry) Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC)."
50. Public TV Tilts Toward Conservatives, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting "While conservatives dismiss Bill Moyers' world-class documentaries on our constitutional checks and balances as "propaganda," they never mention PBS's airing of unabashed right-wing agitprop films such as Nicaragua Was Our Home (the pro-contra film produced by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's CAUSA, which funded the contras after Congress' ban)..."
51. After Cold War, Cold Peace National Catholic Reporter October 1, 1999
52. A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash,
53. American Life TV targets baby boomers: Channel airing Clooney's Darfur docu Variety, June 1, 2007
54. "Bayou La Batre residents embrace church they once called a cult"
55. "Moon Propaganda Machine". Retrieved 2007-12-18. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
56. excerpt The Unification Church Studies in Contemporary Religion, Massimo Introvigne, 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, ISBN 1-56085-145-7 p25
57. Frum, David (2000). How We Got Here: The '70s. New York, New York: Basic Books. p. 146. ISBN 0465041957. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
58. Moon Speech Raises Old Ghosts as the Times Turns 20 (washingtonpost.com)
59. Rev. Sun Myung Moon - Our Mission During The Time Of World Transition
60. How the Liberal Media Stonewalled the Edwards Chicago Daily Observer August 18, 2008
62. North Korea in the midst of a mysterious building boom Los Angeles Times September 27, 2008. "Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, which also runs a car assembly plant in North Korea. The church last year completed work on what it calls the World Peace Center, behind the Potonggang Hotel, also owned by church affiliates."
63. Reverend Moon's Group Wants to Talk Investment: Seoul Nods At Church's Foray North, by Don Kirk, International Herald Tribune, June 2, 1999.
64. Sushi and Rev. Moon: How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support his controversial church Chicago Tribune, April 11, 2006
65. Riverfront developer's origins are tied to Moon Richmond Times-Dispatch January 11, 2008
67. The Work of the Church: In Service to God and to Humanity - To Bigotry, No Sanction, Mose Durst
68. International Relief Friendship Foundation
69. Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984."The church-financed International Relief Friendship Foundation recently shipped 1,000 pounds of clothing, nearly seven tons of food and medical supplies to Miskito Indian refugees in the jungles of Honduras, according to Joy Morrow, the foundation's Washington coordinator."
70. Guy, Pat (April 24, 1989). "MEDIA: Moon ads blast news magazine". USA Today. Gannett Company Inc. p. p. 2B, section: Money. {{cite news}}: |page= has extra text (help)
71. Fisher, Marc (November 23, 1997). "A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-11-14. "Also in 1995, the Women's Federation made another donation that illustrates how Moon supports fellow conservatives. It gave a $3.5 million grant to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which later bought a large portion of Liberty University's debt, rescuing the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Lynchburg, Va., religious school from the brink of bankruptcy."
72. Kennedy, John (February 9, 1998). "Finance: Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals". Christianity Today. Retrieved 2007-10-30. "$3.5 MILLION GIFT: In November, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP), which is headed by Moon's wife, contributed $3.5 million to Christian Heritage Foundation (CHF) of Virginia for educational purposes in 1995."
73. The Words of the Milingo Family, Statement of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification On the Recent Publication of "The Fish Rescued from the Mud" by Archbishop Emanuel Milingo and Michele Zanzucchi
74. Rev. Moon and the United Nations: A Challenge for the NGO Community, Harold Paine and Birgit Gratzer, Global Policy Forum
75. WANGO
76. In Ban's UN, Sun Myung Moon's Paper is Praised, While Gambari Raises Him Funds, WFP Demurs Inner City Press, June 5, 2007

External links

• A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash (original subtitle Moon Linked to Bewildering Array of Entities), Marc Fisher; Jeff Leen, Washington Post, November 23, 1997
• UPF website
• Projects and Activities Founded by Unificationists (Nearly all of these founded by Sun Myung Moon and affiliated with the Unification Church.)
• Reverend Moon Website
• Blog by Richard Bartholomew reporting developments in UPF and the Ambassadors for Peace

• Unification Church
• Unification Church affiliated organizations