Breaking Down Barriers: New office aims to improve opportunities for faith-based and community organizations

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizations ◽  
Faith Based

scholarly journals The Substance of Things Hoped For: Do State Faith-Based and Community Partnership Offices and Liaisons Help Grassroots Organizations Get Federal Funding?

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-137
Author(s):  
Margaret F. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Multivariate Regression Model ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
White House ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Adequate Staffing

AbstractIn response to The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (FBCI, later renamed the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, FBNP), many states either created an FBCI office within state government or established a state liaison to the federal program through a nonprofit organization. While the offices have multiple stated goals, the acquisition of federal funding for community organizations within their respective states is a fairly consistent, and critical, goal for most of these offices. Using a multivariate regression model and a survey of state liaison offices, this mixed methods study finds that there is no difference between states with liaisons and states without with respect to federal funding for community organizations in their states and identifies barriers to their successful achievement of funding objectives. A survey of state FBNP offices detailing budgets, staffing, and reporting structures, among other things, indicates that a lack of unrestricted funds, lack of adequate staffing, and decreasing political salience are contributing factors.

Border Governance in Kachin State, Myanmar: Un/caring states and aspirant state building during humanitarian crises

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
ELAINE LYNN-EE HO
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
State Building ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
Humanitarian Crises ◽  
Care Practices

Abstract Since 2011 renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has triggered the internal displacement of more than 100,000 people in Kachin state. This article examines how care practices and care ethics influence border governance in the context of humanitarian concerns in Kachin state in northern Myanmar, which shares a border with China. The situation in Kachin state at the China-Myanmar border reveals the contrasting territorial logics at stake, the contingency of governance at a time of political transition, and distinct ‘regimes of care’, as manifested through humanitarian relief, which all contribute towards border governance. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews, the article highlights how care deficits are met by a separatist government, community organizations (both faith-based and secular), and diaspora populations which mobilize a range of networks and resources—forming webs of connections and interfacing with one another—to provide humanitarian relief. However, their actions and the ensuing flows of care could produce or deepen political subjectivities that are geared towards territorial contestation and separatism, thus changing expressions of border governance. The article further observes that the Kachin situation has wider implications for the peace negotiations taking place at the national level in Myanmar.

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