Connecticut Worker Center
UPDATE OCTOBER 2025: Our previous investigation of the Connecticut Worker Center (CWC) revealed that the organization was a dues-paying member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), which is a radically pro-abortion organization.
Our last report revealed that the CWC had received $60,000 in the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Two consecutive years afterward, the CWC accrued a grand total of $195,000, including its most recent grant of $75,000 for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
In addition to what we have already reported, the Connecticut Workers’ Center’s most recent violations of Catholic moral teaching (and CCHD grant guidelines) include:
- Remaining an affiliate with the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Currently, the CWC maintains its status as a dues-paying affiliate of the NDWA. The NDWA has a formidable track record as an avid abortion, LGBTQ, and socialist activist organization. Our archives on the NDWA can be found here.
Over recent years, the NDWA has grown increasingly more vocal about its support for the LGBTQ movement by collaborating with and promoting LGBTQ organizations and events.
On June 4, 2024, the NDWA was featured in a podcast episode made by the Solidarity Center. This episode is unfortunately no longer available on the Solidarity Center’s website. 
The Solidarity Center is pro-LGBTQ, and hired an openly gay man, Jeff Wheeler, as the organization’s Program Officer. He is also the Chair of the “LGBTQ+ committee” at the Office and Professional Employees International Union, as shown in a Facebook Post from June 23, 2023.
On June 14, 2024, the NDWA expressed support for the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ organization aimed at youths.
As shown below, the Trevor project is also a proponent of so-called “gender-affirming care.” This “gender-affirming care” consists of hormone therapy for children. On the Trevor Project Website, they claim that puberty blockers for children can enable them to better “explore their gender identity.”
The Trevor Project is also a champion of the transgender ideology. The website itself provides its users with a “Coming Out Handbook,” which is, once again, a publication aimed at children and young adults. It introduces terms like “transgender,” “nonbinary,” and “two spirit,” as gender options for people to consider.
They also definitively state that the gender binary is, in fact, not a factual reality, but that “people experience gender outside of that binary.”
In a post from February 27, 2023, made by a podcasting group called The Story of a Woman, it’s revealed that the NDWA’s Strategy and Partnerships director at the time, Alicia Garza, is also a co-founder of the notoriously violent organization, Black Lives Matter. The host of this podcast is also an abortion activist who made a short film, the trailer of which can be watched here. The trailer promotes abortion, but specifically late-term abortion access.
Garza is also denoted in the above image as the co-founder of the organization Supermajority, which is a virulently pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQ. Supermajority expressed, in an article written July of 2022, their support for the previous president Biden’s executive order to have abortion access protected.
Supermajority has also been very open about their lack of understanding in the realm of basic biology. In a newsletter from March 2024, they had a segment dedicated to celebrating “Transgender Day of Visibility.” 
In a 2020 newsletter, Supermajority also voiced its support for the Biden-Harris ticket, due to their vow to protect “reproductive rights” and embrace the “rights of LGBTQ people.”
Updated Conclusion:
Given that the CWC has been a dues-paying member of the NDWA, they should not have received a CCHD grant in the first place. As of 2025, the CWC has not ended its relationship with the NDWA, and yet it still received funds from the CCHD in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The NDWA continues to violate Catholic moral teaching by way of LGBTQ, transgender, and abortion activism. For these reasons, the Lepanto Institute is renewing its call for the USCCB to close down the CCHD permanently.
The Previous Report: The Connecticut Worker Center
NOTE: To download a PDF version of this report, please click here.
The Connecticut Worker Center received its first-ever grant of $60,000 from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) in FY 2020-2021.
At issue is the fact that the Connecticut Worker Center (CWC) is a member of a pro-abortion coalition called the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The CCHD absolutely forbids organizations from membership in organizations that act against Catholic teaching. In an FAQ on the USCCB website, the CCHD directly answers the question about whether grantees may be members of coalitions that oppose Catholic teachings. In answer, the CCHD firmly stated, “CCHD will not fund groups that are knowingly members of coalitions that have as part of their organizational purpose or coalition agenda, positions or actions that contradict fundamental Catholic moral and social teaching.”
Despite this, the National Domestic Workers Alliance identifies CWC as one of its affiliates. Even though the “Chapters and Affiliates” page contains a disclaimer that says the “views expressed on this website or otherwise by the National Domestic Workers Alliance do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of NDWA affiliates,” the disclaimer does no good to protect the organization from the CCHD guideline prohibiting membership in such groups.
All organizational affiliates of NDWA are required to pay annual dues, meaning that organizational membership in NDWA includes financial support for NDWA activism. According to NDWA’s Affiliate Manual, affiliates with an operating budget below $250,000 pay $50 every year. Affiliates whose operating budgets are between $250,000 and $500,000 pay $100 every year. Affiliates with operating budgets between $500,000 and $1 million pay $150 every year, and all others pay $250 per year.
With this in mind, there is no mistaking the fact that NDWA is a radically pro-abortion organization, which makes it impossible for any CCHD grantee to be a member.
And to show that NDWA’s promotion of abortion well pre-dates this grant, NDWA tweeted in 2016 its solidarity with Poland in standing AGAINST abortion bans.
In 2018, NDWA tweeted “Rise up for Roe!”
In June of 2019, NDWA said that abortion bans harm women’s health and their dignity.
In June of 2020, NDWA publicly supported the fight against Louisiana’s anti-abortion law saying, “The right to reproductive care means nothing unless ALL women can live full self-determined lives.”
On June 24, 2022, the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, NDWA published a tweet calling for readers to donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds to “show solidarity” by providing “direct financial support for abortions.”
That same day, NDWA issued a vision statement regarding its entire alliance, declaring that “the domestic worker movement will continue to fight for a world where everyone has access to the full spectrum of health care, including abortion.”
On June 28, 2022, NDWA claimed that “Abortion is healthcare.”
On July 11, 2022, NDWA called abortion a “fundamental right.”
But NDWA’s activities in fighting for access to abortion aren’t limited to mere social media screeds. NDWA has taken active initiatives in support of abortion. At some point, NDWA created a pledge card for people to sign saying, “Stop the Abortion Bans!”
During the Trump administration, NDWA created a petition to stop blocking immigrants and refugees from accessing abortion.
In 2021, NDWA sign onto a letter calling for protection of access to abortion.
Conclusion
There is no way any organization can be a member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and be a grantee of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Not only do grant guidelines explicitly forbid such a relationship, but having anything to do with an organization as thoroughly committed to the murder of babies in the womb can only implicate the organizational member in the same.
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