Faith and Collaboration: A Qualitative Analysis of Faith-Based Social Service Programs in Organizational Relationships

Thomas, Margaret

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“…A small percentage of congregations have paid staff members who devote a portion of their work time to service provision; however, most congregations rely solely on volunteers to provide services [9,10]. Because the resource requirements associated with offering social services often exceed a congregation's capacity, many congregations provide services in collaboration with other organizations [7,[11][12][13]. A few congregations receive external funding to support their service provision and a very small percentage receive government funding [1,9].…”

Section: The Contemporary State Of Congregation-based Service Provisimentioning

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Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation

Fulton

2016

Religions

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When congregations seek to address social needs, they often pursue this goal through acts of service and political engagement. Over the past three decades, a tremendous amount of research has been dedicated to analyzing congregation-based service provision and political participation. However, little is known about how congregations' involvement in these arenas has changed during this period. To help fill this gap, this study analyzes three waves of data from a national survey of congregations to assess how congregations' participation patterns in service-related and political activities have been changing since the 1990s. It also examines trends among subpopulations of congregations grouped by their religious tradition, ethnoracial composition, and ideological orientation. Overall, this study finds that among most types of congregations, the percentage participating in service-related activities is substantial and increasing, while the percentage participating in political activities is less substantial and decreasing. This decline in political participation has implications for the role congregations play in addressing social needs. Relieving immediate needs through service provision without also pursuing long-term solutions through political participation can limit congregations' ability to comprehensively address social needs. Among the few types of congregations that have high and/or increasing participation rates in both service-related and political activities are Catholic, predominantly Hispanic, and politically liberal congregations.

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Section: The Contemporary State Of Congregation-based Service Provisimentioning

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Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation

Fulton

2016

Religions

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“…Thomas (2009) carried out a qualitative study of the relationships between public and private sector organizations, including FBOs in 15 social service programs. Thomas (2009) carried out a qualitative study of the relationships between public and private sector organizations, including FBOs in 15 social service programs.…”

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“…Several studies examined a range of collaborations to describe their variety and identify factors promoting their success. Thomas (2009) carried out a qualitative study of the relationships between public and private sector organizations, including FBOs in 15 social service programs. FBOs collaborated with government and other organizations for a variety of purposes, including service delivery, administration, and sharing volunteers and other resources.…”

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Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

Bielefeld

Cleveland

2013

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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The welfare reforms initiated in the 1990s prompted increased discussion of the use of faith-based organizations for the provision of social services. This is the second of two articles examining the progress of this debate. The first article provides the scope of inquiry, defines specific characteristics of faith-based organizations, and outlines methods used to study them. This article discusses specific services provided by faith-based organizations and how these organizations are related to the government. Faith-based organizations compared favorably to secular organizations in the services they provided while providing a somewhat narrower range of services. The implementation of Charitable Choice and other faith-based initiatives as policy required consideration of constitutional and practical issues with the implementation of collaborations and partnerships between government and faith-based organizations along with increased government funding and contracting for these organizations.

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“…These include descriptions of key components and processes of faith-based programming (e.g., Kaseman & Austin, 2005;Rogers, 2009;Thomas, 2009), identification of faith-based services provided to particular client populations or developed to address specific problems (e.g., Ives, Sinha, & Cnaan, 2010;Lentz, 2010;Morris, Rambo-Freeman, & Powell, 2005;Warner-Robbins, & Parsons, 2010); and program evaluations of faith-based programs (e.g., MacMaster, Jones, Rasch, Crawford, Thompson, & Sanders, 2007;Roman, Wolff, Correa, & Buck, 2007;Sinha, 2007). A few writings have focused more broadly to examine other aspects of spirituality within organizational or community practice in general.…”

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Introduction: Connecting Spirituality and Social Justice Within Macropractice

Sheridan

2012

Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social T

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Social work has had a long and complex historical relationship with religious and nonreligious spirituality across its development as a profession. As Canda and Furman delineate in their overview of this history, we have come through several distinct phases in this evolving relationship: from "sectarian origins" when social work was primarily shaped around JudeoChristian notions of charity, justice, and communal responsibility; through a fifty-year period of increased "professionalization and secularization" when the profession distanced itself from its early sectarian roots; to a "resurgence in interest" when calls for inclusion of spirituality spurred new developments in social work practice, research, and education (2010, pp. 109-113). These authors identify the current phase as one of "transcending boundaries," characterized by continued expansion and exploration across divides of "spiritual perspectives, academic disciplines, nations, governmental and religious institutions, and between humans and nature" (Canda, 2005, cited in Canda & Furman, 2010.This special edition addresses important issues in this new phase; specifically, the need for expansion concerning the integration of spirituality in macro social work practice. Overall, there has been an explosion of contributions to the knowledge base on spirituality and social work since the re-emergence of interest in spirituality in the eighties. A recent search of Social Work Abstracts using the keywords religion, religious, religiosity, spiritual, spirituality, and faith yielded a total of 2,137 publications. Narrowing this search to identify only those publications that contained these keywords in the title (indicative of a major focus on the topic), resulted in 743 contributions. Closer inspection of these writings shows that the vast majority of them center on some aspect of direct practice;

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Faith and Collaboration: A Qualitative Analysis of Faith-Based Social Service Programs in Organizational Relationships

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation

Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation

Faith-Based Organizations as Service Providers and Their Relationship to Government

Introduction: Connecting Spirituality and Social Justice Within Macropractice

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