Literature Review: Business/Faith-Based and Community Organization (FBCO) Partnerships

摘要

In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the vital role that faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) can play in providing employment and training services to job seekers while helping businesses meet their objectives. Yet there has been little documentation of the wide range of business partnerships with FBCOs that exist at the community level. DOLs Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI) has asked Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) to conduct a literature review to help provide this documentation. This literature review will help inform the efforts of DOLs CFBCI in supporting businesses that seek to partner with FBCOs in recruiting, training, and retaining employees. In this report, we summarize the key issues and trends associated with employer/FBCO partnerships and provide concrete examples that illustrate the diverse range of partnerships that are taking place at the ground level. We reviewed hundreds of articles and reports for this report and interviewed six respondents to get their input on the issues most relevant to employer/FBCO partners. These respondents included businesses and FBCO staff that were promoting innovative partnerships as evidenced from the literature review or that were nominated by DOLs Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.