Faith-Based Organizations Providing Employment and Training Services: A Preliminary Exploration. Revised.

摘要

The purpose of this report, therefore, is to provide a basic understanding of the extent to which faith-based organizations are providing employment-related services, drawing upon exploratory information compiled for five communities: Baltimore, Maryland; Fort Worth, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and San Diego, California. The communities were purposively (not randomly) selected to provide geographic diversity to address three general questions: How much federal employment and training funding is going to faith-based organizations; What sorts of employment-related services do faith-based organizations provide; How much employment-related services do religious congregations provide and to whom. The examination and the findings are exploratory, but nonetheless offer insight into the possible scale of activity by faith-based organizations in the workforce development system, and suggest the feasibility of conducting more empirical and comprehensive research to examine this issue more fully.