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Government partnerships with faith-based organizations

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, established by President Barack Obama, plans to expand partnerships between the government and faith-based and community organizations for the delivery of social services, reports The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. What lessons can be learned from the preceding eight years of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush? What challenges and opportunities lie ahead?

To discuss these issues, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life invited Joshua DuBois, the executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Stephen Goldsmith, an adviser on faith-based partnerships in the Bush White House and the former mayor of Indianapolis; and Richard Nathan, co-director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and the former director of the Roundtable on Religion & Social Welfare Policy, which on June 11 released its final report, "Taking Stock: The Bush Faith-Based Initiative and What Lies Ahead."

To read the event transcript, click here.

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[06/28/2009]

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