F: Faith-Based and Community Organizations

Promote participation of faith-based and community organizations

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Overview: In January 2001, President Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and charged it with lifting up this nation’s charitable service organizations and encouraging their good works. Roadblocks –including outright bias, arbitrary and burdensome regulations, and general confusion over the way the federal government has addressed the separation of church and state – often have prevented HUD and other federal agencies from expanding federal partnerships with America’s faith-based groups. HUD’s goal is to break down the barriers and substantially strengthen and expand its partnerships with faith-based and community groups, taking full advantage of their capacity to provide quality services to communities and families. Performance Measures: • Participation of faith-based and community-based organizations in HUD programs continues to increase, as evidenced by the number of grant applications for and partnerships in HUD programs. • Evaluate the number of applications by faith-based and community grantees against the previous year’s baseline. • Identify and eliminate the barriers to participation by faith-based and community organizations in HUD-sponsored programs. • Implement and monitor the recording mechanisms for analyzing competitive grant applications for faith-based groups. • Implement and monitor the recording mechanisms for analyzing formula grant applications for faith-based groups.• Provide technical assistance and/or training to a significant number of potential faith-based and community-based applicants for HUD-sponsored programs. • Encourage HUD’s block grant recipients to create partnerships with faith-based and community organizations. • Encourage faith-based and community organizations to enter into local and regional consolidated planning processes so as to participate in block-grant funding opportunities.

Objective(s):

F1: Reduce Barriers

F2: Outreach & Technical Assistance

F3: Partnerships

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