Community Initiatives

Bush also defends his Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, which he said helped more than 5,000 charities receive federal grants.

In Bush Memoir, Faith A Small But Constant Factor Josh Fleet 2010

Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, White House, 239, 240

COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010

Bush also defends his Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, which he said helped more than 5,000 charities receive federal grants.

In Bush Memoir, Faith A Small But Constant Factor The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, White House, 239, 240

COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010

From a letter by John Dilulio, who resigned from the position of Bush's first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Obama: My Administration Will Value "Science" And "Facts" 2009

Best summed up by John Dilulio, served as the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President Bush:

Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

Shortly after taking office he declared that faith-based programs would receive increased federal funding and, to the delight of his Evangelical friends, he established the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (now called the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships).

Tony Campolo: Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama? 2009

And President Bush came into office with a promise to "rally the armies of compassion," establishing a new Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Obama Speech: We Can Expand Faith-Based Charities And Separate Church From State 2009

As the disillusioned social scientist John DiIulio, brought in to help run the new administration's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, put it early on, "there is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus … The lack of even basic policy knowledge, and the only casual interest in knowing more, was somewhat breathtaking."

Why the Election Mattered 2009

In 2004 Medina became a grant recipient from the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program created by the Bush administration.

Anthony Papa: Strange Bedfellows: Bush Bids Farewell to Ex-Con 2009