Clarion Project

The Clarion Project logo, circa 2015 Credit: Clarion Project

Clarion Fund, Inc. is a non-profit organisation created in November 2006 by Rabbi Raphael Shore of Aish HaTorah.

It has been renamed the Clarion Project and describes itself as 'dedicated to exposing the dangers of Islamist extremism while providing a platform for the voices of moderation and promoting grassroots activism'.

Clarion has produced and distributed several pro-Israel propaganda films, including the Islamophobic Obsession in 2008. Its latest film project in 2015 is called 'Faithkeepers'.

People

Principals

• Raphael Shore - founder
• Gregory Ross, spokesperson

Staff and consultants

• Ryan Mauro, who is also associated with Brigitte Gabriel's ACT! for America
• Clare Lopez

Affiliations

• Aish HaTorah
• HonestReporting
• RadicalIslam.org
• Hank Sheinkopf, a long-time Democratic consultant in New York, who worked on President Clinton's re-election campaign, was hired by Clarion in 2008 to respond to the press coverage resulting from the release of Obsession and accusations that the non-profit had overstepped its charitable aims.

Funding received

2014

In 2014 it received $2,339,518 in contributions and grants. Of it, it spent $308,495 on advertising and promotion, and $453,528 on a 'FILM'.

2013

In 2013 it received $2,377,372 in contributions and grants. Of it, it spent $138,465 on advertising and promotion, and $314,031 on a 'FILM'.

2012

It received $1,315,581 in contributions and grants:

• The Joe R Lee Family Foundation gave the Clarion Fund $50,000 in 2012, $25,000 in 2011, $10,000 in 2009.
• The Donors Capital Fund gave $125,000
• Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation gave $25,000

2011

• Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation: $25,000

2010

• Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation: $15,000

2008

In 2008, CF received a grant of $17,778,600 from right wing 'slush fund' Donors Capital Fund, which also funded Security Research Associates, a group run by Tom Trento who assisted in the distribution of Clarion's film Obsession.

• The Newton and Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust gave $15,000

Grants given

The fund has not given any grants during the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

2008

In 2008 the Clarion Fund gave a grant to Imagination Productions of $190,000.

Films

• Iranium - 'explores the scenarios we may face if the radical Iranian regime comes to possess the world’s most powerful weapons'.
• Honor Diaries- 'features nine courageous women’s rights advocates with connections to Muslim-majority societies who are engaged in a dialogue about gender inequality'.
• Obsession - 'reveals an ‘insider's view' of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination'.
• The Third Jihad - 'a documentary that alerts Americans to the danger radical Islam poses to the United States and to Western civilization as a whole'.

Contact

Mailing Addresss

• Clarion Fund, Inc.
• 255 W. 36th Street #800
• New York, NY 10018

Telephone Telephone

• General: 888.610.2221 & 646.308.1230
• Press & media: 646.308.1202

By 2015 this was now:

Clarion Project, Inc.

1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Suite 1025

Washington DC 20006

Websites:

• http://clarionfund.org
• http://www.radicalislam.org
• http://www.thethirdjihad.com
• http://www.obsessionthemovie.com
• http://iraniummovie.com/

E-mail

• General: info@clarionfund.org
• Press & media: press@clarionfund.org

External Resources

• Justin Elliott, Mystery of who funded right-wing "radical Islam" campaign deepens, Salon.com, 16 November 2010.
• Eli Clifton, Clarion Fund Discloses Hawkish “Advisory Board” Before Launch Of Iran Documentary, Lobelog, 17 November 2010.