What is the Faith-Based & Community Initiative?
One of President Bush’s first official acts as President was to create the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The Office was tasked at its inception with leading a “determined attack on need” by strengthening and expanding the role of faith-based and other community organizations in addressing the nation’s social problems. The guiding principle behind President Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative is that all social service providers, including faith-based charities, should be able to compete on an equal footing for public dollars to provide public services.
