The Fiscal Cliff and Faith-Based Organizations

The Fiscal Cliff and Faith-Based Organizations

While the nation did not hurtle over the so-called fiscal cliff (the combination of mandatory budget cuts and tax increases), thanks to last minute action…

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City Planning and Faith-Based Organizations:  Calgary

City Planning and Faith-Based Organizations: Calgary

The city of Calgary, the large oil-boom city in Alberta province in western Canada, a few years ago adopted a “Centre City Plan” to guide…

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Crazy Question No. 847: Are Charities More Effective Than Government?

Crazy Question No. 847: Are Charities More Effective Than Government?

For a recent “Room for Debate” discussion, the New York Times asked four experts, “Are Charities More Effective Than Government?” The various perspectives are well…

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What's Ahead for the Obama Faith-Based Initiative?

What’s Ahead for the Obama Faith-Based Initiative?

To the surprise of many (and the disgust of some), President Obama has maintained the federal faith-based initiative that was a signature domestic policy of…

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Free to Serve:  Protect the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Service Organizations

Free to Serve: Protect the Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Service Organizations

A Statement from the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance Every day, throughout the United States and overseas, people inspired by religious faith serve people in need-the…

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Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits?

Financial Stress Ahead for Nonprofits?

Maybe before the glittery ball falls in Times Square, signaling the arrival of the New Year, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President…

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Administration Accommodation of Conscience

Administration Accommodation of Conscience

The Obama administration’s positive action was not much noted at the time, so, although very belatedly, here is the story. The PEPFAR program, started by…

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Being Against Faith-Based Charities By Being For Them?

Being Against Faith-Based Charities By Being For Them?

Jack Jenkins, of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress, made a thoughtful observation recently: “Vice Presidential candidate Rep. Paul…

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Rocks Ahead, Due to PILOTs

Rocks Ahead, Due to PILOTs

A pilot, in shipping, is someone who intimately knows the geography of a harbor and its entrances and climbs aboard incoming and outgoing ships to…

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Undermining the Good in the Name of the Good

Undermining the Good in the Name of the Good

Milton Friesen of Cardus recently wrote a good reminder of the need for our governments and activists to refrain from undermining and destroying social institutions…

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