Charitable Choice for Welfare & Community Services
An Implementation Guide for State, Local, and Federal Officials
by Stanley Carlson-Thies
This is a how-to guide for complying with Charitable Choice when using TANF, WtW, and CSBG funds. Charitable Choice is a rule for procurement of services using federal welfare and social-service funds. It enables faith-based providers to compete for funding while protecting their religious character and the religious liberty of their clients.
To make a difference in contracting and for distressed families and neighborhoods, officials need to reform their procurement policies and practices. This guide explains Charitable Choice as it applies to TANF, Welfare-to-Work, and Community Services Block Grant funds and shows how to bring procurement policies into compliance. It also suggests ways to make sure that procurement practice is changed.
This publication was made possible by a grant from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD. Additional research supported by a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, Westport, CT.
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