faith-based initiative
Faith-Based 2.0: the press release
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2009
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 5, 2009 Obama Announces White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Washington (February 5, 2009) – President Barack Obama today signed an executive order establishing the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The White House Office of Faith-Based and […]
Holy Roll-Out
By Mark Silk — February 5, 2009
As we await the president’s executive order establishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (new acronym = OFANP), Gorski’s back with more from his “religious leader with knowledge of the plans.” The man with the plans now says that the order will direct White House lawyers and officials to work with DOJ […]
Finessing it
By Mark Silk — February 4, 2009
Eric Gorski’s got some more skinny on COFANP, and I can’t say it inspires confidence. Apparently there will be an advisory board composed of religious leaders and secular social service pros that will meet “at least twice a year,” for which purpose is unclear. The names of a few of the members have been dribbled […]
Faith-Based SCHIP
By Mark Silk — February 3, 2009
Howard Friedman has noticed that the Senate-approved version of SCHIP, which is expected to pass the House later this week, provides for grants to faith-based providers “consistent with the requirements of … 42 U.S.C. 300x–65 relating to a grant award to nongovernmental entities.” And according to my reading of the reg, that means that such […]
Get a Lawyer!
By Mark Silk — February 2, 2009
Pew has a good Q&A with GW law prof Chip Lupu on the jurisprudence governing (or not) faith-based hiring when you’ve got a federal grant. To say it’s a bit of a legal thicket is a bit of an understatement. But while I’m no lawyer, one aspect of the Bush administration’s argumentation for allowing such […]
Joshing
By Mark Silk — January 29, 2009
The scoop, according to NYT’s Laurie Goodstein, is that President Obama will name Joshua DuBois to head COFANP, the Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships that inherits President Bush’s faith-based initiative. The 26-year-old DuBois headed religious outreach for the Obama campaign, and while he wasn’t in the inner circle of chieftains, he is by all […]
Where’s that Summer youth thing?
By Mark Silk — January 28, 2009
Howard Friedman over at Religion Clause has noticed that the fiscal stimulus bill includes $100 million for what’s been known as the faith-based initiative, and also that Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) has proposed an amendment to increase that to $500 million. The money’s slated for Health and Human Services’ Compassion Capital Fund, whose purpose is […]
COFANP?
By Mark Silk — January 16, 2009
Still waiting to see who will be named to head the new President’s Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Has this dropped off the table?
Directing the Partnerships
By Mark Silk — January 7, 2009
Announced appointments send signals, and as the top positions in the incoming administration fill up, I’m waiting to see who the president-elect chooses to head his new Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (COFANP). Like the head of Bush’s Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, COFANP’s director will be charged with coordinating activities among satellite […]
COFANP
By Mark Silk — January 2, 2009
What’s in a name? What George Bush established as “The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives” (OFCI) Barack Obama is rechristening “The President’s Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships” (COFANP). According to the Obama campaign’s position paper on the subject, “The new name will reflect a new commitment to strengthening the partnership between […]
Faith-Basing
By Mark Silk — December 5, 2008
Today, with National Press Club bells and whistles, Brookings released “Serving People in Need, Safeguarding Religious Freedom”–a set of recommendations on government-religion partnerships written by E.J. Dionne, WaPo columnist and Brookings senior fellow, and Melissa’s Rogers, director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest University Divinity School, formerly of the Baptist […]
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