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Author : David M. Ackerman
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560729938
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charitable Choice written by David M. Ackerman and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Suess Kennedy
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589012950
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charitable Choice at Work written by Sheila Suess Kennedy and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, say its critics, U.S. domestic policy is founded on ideology rather than evidence. Take "Charitable Choice": legislation enacted with the assumption that faith-based organizations can offer the best assistance to the needy at the lowest cost. The Charitable Choice provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act—buttressed by President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative of 2000—encouraged religious organizations, including congregations, to bid on government contracts to provide social services. But in neither year was data available to prove or disprove the effectiveness of such an approach. Charitable Choice at Work fills this gap with a comprehensive look at the evidence for and against faith-based initiatives. Sheila Suess Kennedy and Wolfgang Bielefeld review the movement's historical context along with legal analysis of constitutional concerns including privatization, federalism, and separation of church and state. Using both qualitative and, where possible, statistical data, the authors analyze the performance of job placement programs in three states with a representative range of religious, political, and demographic traits—Massachusetts, Indiana, and North Carolina. Throughout, they focus on measurable outcomes as they compare non-faith-based with faith-based organizations, nonprofits with for-profits, and the logistics of contracting before and after Charitable Choice. Among their findings: in states where such information is available, the composition of social service contractor pools has changed very little. Reflecting their varied political cultures, states have funded programs differently. Faith-based organizations have not been eager to seek government contracts, perhaps wary of additional legal restraints and reporting burdens. The authors conclude that faith-based organizations appear no more effective than secular organizations at government-funded social service provision, that there has been no dramatic change in the social welfare landscape since Charitable Choice, and that the constitutional concerns of its detractors may be valid. This empirical study penetrates the fog of the culture wars, moving past controversy over the role of religion in public life to offer pragmatic suggestions for policymakers and organizations who must decide how best to assist the needy.
Author : John P. Bartkowski
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814799019
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charitable Choices written by John P. Bartkowski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief programs in 30 congregations in the rural south.
Author : Andrew H. Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Can Charitable Choice Work? written by Andrew H. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charitable Choice, Faith-Based Initiatives, and TANF. written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of the Charitable Choice Expansion Act of 2001 (Title II of H.R. 7), President Bush issued an executive order directing several Cabinet departments to adopt charitable choice rules in their social service programs. These rules seek to promote the use of religious groups as providers of social services while protecting the religious freedom of beneficiaries. In response to the order, several departments have made final regulatory changes, and other departments have proposed changes in rules. For faith-based initiative projects during FY2004, Congress appropriated $103 million (P.L. 108-199); and for FY2005, the President's budget requests $165 million. The 108th Congress resumed efforts to pass tax incentives for private giving (S. 476, passed by the Senate, and H.R. 7, passed by the House). However, these bills do not contain basic charitable choice rules. Opposition to charitable choice has brought together a coalition of religious and secular groups who, for different reasons, want to maintain separation of church and state -- the former to protect their independence and sense of mission, the latter to guard against use of public funds for religious activities. In two cases concerning a Wisconsin faith-based program for drug addicts (Faith Works), direct government funding of religious activity has been found unconstitutional, but indirect funding (by voucher) has been found constitutional. In a related case, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on July 2, 2004, found unconstitutional awards made to AmeriCorps participants who were placed as teachers in sectarian schools and who engaged in religious instruction and activities during the school day. For legal and constitutional issues raised by charitable choice, see CRS Report RL32195. This report will be updated for developments.
Author : John P. Bartkowski
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081470915X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charitable Choices written by John P. Bartkowski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty. Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it examines how religious conviction and racial dynamics shape congregational benevolence. Mississippi has long had the nation's highest poverty rate and was the first state to implement a faith-based welfare reform initiative. The book provides a grounded and even-handed treatment of congregational poverty relief rather than abstract theory on faith-based initiatives. The volume examines how congregations are coping with national developments in social welfare policy and reveals the strategies that religious communities utilize to fight poverty in their local communities. By giving particular attention to the influence of theological convictions and organizational dynamics on religious service provision, it identifies both the prospects and pitfalls likely to result from the expansion of charitable choice.
Author : John P. Bartkowski
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814799027
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charitable Choices written by John P. Bartkowski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief programs in 30 congregations in the rural south.
Author : Janet Lane
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443843814
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Is Charity a Choice? written by Janet Lane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, “Government policy and religious matters . . . both claim to give authoritative answers to important questions about how people should live.” Heclo’s words apply especially to the issue of poverty and welfare reform, a matter on which the great religious traditions have played an integral part. Apart from its profound political significance, there is every indication that the welfare reform legislation of 1996 (Personal Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act, PWORA) has altered the landscape of American religion. Through Section 104 of PWORA, also known as Charitable Choice, religious congregations, interfaith ministries and denominational work relief agencies have been thrust into the center of America’s welfare to work transition and community revitalization efforts. Charitable Choice makes it illegal for state governments to discriminate against social service providers who organization has a religious mandate. This book examines Charitable Choice – and more broadly, the changing relationship between religion and social welfare – as its primary point of departure for investigating faith-based poverty relief in the post-welfare era. This research employs a mixed methods approach to understanding the role of Protestant evangelicals in addressing the needs of the poor and specifically their role in the implementation of Charitable Choice. To accomplish this task, two national surveys, one individual and one congregational, are used to explore the role of religiosity and the creation of Protestant evangelical sub-cultures and their effects on civic engagement, volunteerism and support for Charitable Choice. It then triangulates this data with qualitative research to develop a clearer understanding of the issues that affect participation rates and public welfare delivery systems. In-depth interviews of thirty-six Protestant evangelical ministers from central Appalachia are conducted and analyzed. This text will advance both practice and theory by providing an understanding about the complex world of Protestant evangelicalism. This volume has the potential to increase our understanding about the role intra-textual and inter-textual theological beliefs and convictions play in the public policy process and whether faith-based organizations can help to address the issues surrounding poverty and social welfare. To the policy maker, the authors hope to provide practical information that affects policy delivery and policy evaluation. To the religious scholar and social science researcher, they hope this study serves as one brick in a larger foundation known as Protestant evangelicalism. It will provide a different strategy for identifying key variables associated with public policy analysis. And in the end, it will require us all to answer if charity is truly a choice.
Author : David Allen Sherwood
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charitable Choice written by David Allen Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charitable Choice contains overviews of the Charitable Choice legislation itself and raises significant issues and questions regarding its implementation. It documents initial efforts by states to implement the law provides examples of church involvement in community social ministry looks at characteristics and attitudes of staff at faith-based programs explores the experiences of volunteer mentors in social welfare programs and it gives a rich qualitative look at how some rural churches respond to poverty and policy. Professional social workers are in a unique position to help bring people of faith and people in need together especially if these social workers are persons of faith themselves. This book is a resource for social work practitioners, educators, and students for leaders in churches and faith-based programs, and for advocates for the poor. In short it is intended to equip us to help others in a way that really helps.
Download or read book Public Aid to Faith-Based Organizations (Charitable Choice) written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated by the failure of its charitable choice proposal in the 107th Congress, the Bush Administration on December 12, 2002, announced a number of administrative initiatives to promote the involvement of religious entities in federally funded social services programs. The initiatives included an executive order extending a number of the most salient principles of charitable choice to most federally funded social services programs, a significant proposed revision in the rules governing the participation of religious organizations in the federal government's housing and community development programs, and the issuance for the first time of proposed regulations to implement existing charitable choice statutes. In part because of these initiatives, the 108th Congress does not appear likely to consider or enact any charitable choice legislation as sweeping as H.R. 7 in the 107th Congress. But several related bills are moving. The Senate may soon take up the CARE Act (S. 272/S. 476), introduced on January 30, 2003, by Senators Santorum and Lieberman. The House Committee on Education and Labor has approved a reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (H.R. 1261) which exempt religious providers of services from religious nondiscrimination in employment requirements currently in the statute. The House has again approved a bill (H.R. 4) re-authorizing and modifying the welfare reform program enacted in 1996 that would create a program to support healthy marriages which would be subject to the existing charitable choice rules. Although enacted into law in four previous statutes, charitable choice has been the subject of persistent controversy; and President Bush's initiative in the 107th Congress "to rally the armies of compassion" led the controversy to become highly visible. This report provides background and analysis on a number of the salient factual and legal issues about charitable choice in a question-and-answer format as well as an Appendix comparing the four charitable choice statutes with the Housepassed version of H.R. 7 and Executive Order 13279.
