The President yesterday issued an Executive Order (full text) requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security to create a center for faith-based and community initiatives in DHS. The Executive Order provides: "The purpose of the Center shall be to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate regulatory, contracting, and other programmatic obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services."
In a related matter, today at 11:00 a.m., Jim Towey, Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, will conduct an interactive online discussion of the upcoming White House conference on the role corporations and foundations play in funding social services. The public may submit questions for Mr. Towey through the White House website.
