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From Pres. Bush’s address to the Second White House National Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, March 9, 2006

… a recent survey of our Office of
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, … of 20 large
corporate foundations, found that only about 6 percent of their grants went
to faith-based groups. …

I would urge our corporate foundations to reach beyond the
norm, to look for those social entrepreneurs who haven’t been
recognized heretofore, to continue to find people that are running programs
that are making a significant difference in people’s lives.

When we studied 50 large foundations, we found that one in five prohibited
faith organizations from receiving funding for social service programs. In
other words, there’s a prohibition against funding faith programs from
certain foundations in the country. I would hope they would revisit their
charters. I would hope they’d take a look at achieving social objectives
— make the priority the achievement of certain social objectives before
they would make the decision to exclude some who are achieving incredible
progress on behalf of our country….

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