Joshua DuBois, former head of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, defended and detailed the work of the faith-based office in this Feb. 4, 2010, video (with transcript) interview with David Brody of CBN

Read a Washington Post blog item the summarizes some of the presentations at the Brookings conference commemorating a decade of faith-based programs.

Read “A Vision for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships,” an address by OFBNP head Joshua DuBois delivered on Feb. 18, 2010, at a conference at the Brookings Institution marking a decade of faith-based programs. The speech sets out the administration’s views on how the program should work.

See a Feb. 22, 2010, Washington Post online article about the council’s proposals. The piece includes a link to a document with the full 73-page report as well as an excerpt with some of the main points related to church-state issues.

Read about the mission of the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and find links to the four main policy goals of the office.

Jeanette Smith is executive director of South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice. This coalition of clergy and lay leaders has worked to raise the minimum wage and to tie it to the rate of inflation.

Interfaith Worker Justice, based in Chicago, tries to organize people of faith in the United States to push for better working conditions, benefits and wages for low-income people. Its Web site states that “among the key principles shared by all faiths are the importance of paying workers fairly for their labor and the right of […]

Earth Ministry includes congregational activists in the Puget Sound, Wash., area, but its programs and resources are in use throughout the United States and Canada. It is interested in creation care and eco-justice, including food issues. Though based in Christianity, Earth Ministry’s programs and membership are open to people of all faiths. LeeAnne Beres is the […]

Lynne D. Talley is a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include large-scale water mass distributions and circulation of the world ocean including the formation of intermediate water mass, observations useful for understanding useful for understanding large-scale dynamical processes common to most ocean […]