Source: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Wire Service: RNS
http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=15053
Seven years after President Bush launched his faith-based initiative, a White House report declares success in helping faith and community groups in each state receive government funding to aid the needy.
"The Quiet Revolution," released Monday (Feb. 25) by the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, reports that the Bush administration has helped train more than 100,000 leaders of faith and community groups on how to access funding and become more effective.
Timed to the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, it includes a 53-page report highlighting the grants won by nonprofits -- religious and secular -- in each state.
"I'm a big believer that government ought to empower people who have got a great capacity to help change people's lives," Bush told governors Monday at the White House.