Funding Faith-Based Services in a Time of Fiscal Pressures

Authored by Courtney Burke, James Fossett, and Thomas Gais. This report finds that significant activity at federal and state levels to extend opportunities for partnerships between government and faith-based social service organizations (FBOs) comes at a time of challenging long-term trends. According to the report, these trends include revenue pressures, shifting priorities, administrative barriers in health services, and increasing competition for social service contracts and grants.