Charitable Choice Guide - Publisher's Update

Publisher's Update to A Guide to Charitable Choice





Since the Guide was published, Congress has extended coverage of the Charitable Choice provision beyond TANF to three additional funding streams:

  • The Welfare-to-Work program, adopted in 1997 as an amendment to PRWORA (on Charitable Choice's application to WtW, see the Congressional Research Service memo to Sen. John Ashcroft from Kathleen S. Swendiman, "Application to Charitable Choice Provisions to Part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act, " May 4, 1999).
  • The Community Services Block Grant program (when it was reauthorized in 1998: P.L. 105-285).
  • 2000 Drug Treatment Funds (SAMHSA Block Grant in Children1s Health Act)

The Charitable Choice provision does permit states to require religious organizations to establish a separate organization to provide government-funded services. The statement to the contrary in the Guide (pp. 6-7) is mistaken.

(10/30/00)