By Meg Henry On November 15, 2018, IRFA Founder and Senior Director Stanley Carlson-Thies testified at a briefing for the Ohio House of Representatives Community…
by Stanley Carlson-Thies The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published aRequest for Information, asking whether its policies and practices make it…
The Obama administration wants to use federal funds and rules to get all states to make pre-K schooling broadly available. He’s backing a bill in…
The fiftieth anniversary of the signing by President Lyndon B. Johnson of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, our nation’s premier civil rights law, is being…
As a candidate for president, in July, 2008, Barack Obama announced that, while he would continue the faith-based initiative started by President Bush, he would…
On August 2, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo to federal departments and agencies directing that they must assess their grant, contract, and other policies and practices.
On April 5, President Obama issued Executive Order 13640, continuing for another two years the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. No word…
In March, 2013, Melissa Rogers replaced Joshua DuBois as head of President Obama’s White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. IRFA President Stanley Carlson-Thies…
President Obama hits a triple. Melissa Rogers, a noted consensus-building church-state expert, has been appointed the new director of the White House Office of Faith-Based…
FBOs: fighting poverty or the culture wars?
(by Stanley Carlson-Thies) A mid-May, 2015, Catholic-evangelical summit brought together President Obama, academic experts, and faith leaders to consider how to more effectively address persistent…