The National Academy of Certified Care Managers? (lol)

I'm sure there will be no confusion between naccm.ORG and naccm.NET. No confusion at all.

Right at the top of the page it says, "A new name. The Same Focus." YMMV.

I still won't rejoin given their past agendas.

I need tangible proof of reform before I'll touch it, either.

Our new name reflects our Catholic identity and honors our Catholic foundation, including our role as an auxiliary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

Hmm!

I can't speak to what anyone else may have experienced, but I went to NPM conventions in 2018 and 2022, and I encountered a lot of less traditional musicians being quite kind to more traditional musicians. In 2018, I sat in sessions and had chats with Dan Schutte and the then-not-disgraced Church Music Voldemort, and both were incredibly gracious.

In 2022, I did the choral institute with Paul French (choir director at the 2026 Colloquium), focused around more traditional choral music, and it was fantastic and has been a great help to my ministry working with the parish choir.

I'm not currently a member, but I'll almost certainly attend the 2028 convention, as I live in the Chicago suburbs. I have no idea if the name change will help them, but I wish them the best. We need more church music organizations, not fewer.

Wow, this was a Catholic organization? I honestly had no idea.

I didn't either. lol. I knew there were lots of catholics in it, but I didn't know it was "catholic", let alone officially associated with the USCCB.

The pearl clutching in the FB comments about the announcement is comical and sad. A well-known certain someone opined that people would start referring to the NACCM as "Nack 'em". Do with that what you will.

I think today is a very good step in the right direction for them.

I would certainly hope that reclaiming an overt catholic identity would be a good thing.

Good musicians should have a pastoral spirit, although many do not; my pastor does not like the drama but believes that it comes with the territory, as much as I think that we need to be on guard and ready to examine our consciences.

The 2025 annual report on their web site has some encouraging information: it tells that their most popular podcast episode was an interview with hymnwriter Kathleen Pluth, a contributor to this forum. Also it mentions an on-line series of workshops on reading chant notation, with dozens of participants.

The report is a mixed bag in regard to financial information: it goes into detail about donors and tells the expenditures on certain projects, but doesn't seem to do the same for their convention, which -- who knows? -- might be their biggest activity. Of course, I've only read that one document, so maybe more information is available in some other form.

While they're a seemingly independent organization, the USCCB has placed them under its umbrella for tax purposes, so they're treated as a church by the IRS. Because of that, they aren't obligated to file the standard annual public disclosures for non-profit organizations (Form 990). Those forms provide at least a basic picture of income, expenses, and assets. [The public can read CMAA's filings through the informational site candid.org.]

I think disclosing more information would give a clearer understanding of the organization's good work.

(And of course, I am giving a purely personal point of view on this topic.)

They shouldn't; there is no corporate relationship between the old non-profit Gregorian Institute of America and the commercial publisher that bought the rights to their publications when the old GIA shut down, and which adopted their initials.