Steven Hassan

===Institutions===
In 1979, Hassan founded a non-profit organization called Ex-Moon Inc. The organization consisted of over four hundred former members of the Unification Church. The organization is now defunct.<ref name="sam"/> In 1999, he founded the Freedom of Mind Resource Center.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjj85y/how-cult-leaders-use-youtube-to-recruit-new-members |title=How Cults Use YouTube for Recruitment |first=Mack |last=Lamoureux |date=August 11, 2017 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]}}</ref> The center is registered as a domestic {{not a typo|profit}} corporation in the Commonwealth of [[Massachusetts]], and Hassan is president and treasurer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Business Entity Summary for Freedom of Mind Resource Center |work=corp.sec.state.ma.us |publisher=Office of the [[Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]] |access-date=December 6, 2023 |url= https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?sysvalue=XfsAs7QojZL7_jMMuLyu9CM2tGbrCSxd9lHwjn.rxyY-}}</ref> Hassan posts dossiers on the site about organizations he has investigated or received complaints about.<ref name="bmag">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2007/09/01/the-other-side-of-enlightenment/ |title=The Other Side of Enlightenment |last=Elton |first= Catherine |date=September 1, 2007 |work=[[Boston (magazine)|Boston]] |access-date=August 23, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823154137/https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2007/09/01/the-other-side-of-enlightenment/ |archive-date=August 23, 2021}}</ref>