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Community-Wide Planning for Faith-Based Service Provision: Practical, Policy, and Conceptual Challenges
Author(s): Harris, Margaret; Hutchinson, Romayne; Cairns, Ben
Date: 2005
Topics: Finance, Poverty, Jewish Organisations, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Care and Welfare, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The context for this paper is the public policy interest in the US and the UK in the contribution that faith based organisations can make to the provision of welfare and other public services, and the corresponding demands on such organisations to consider how they plan and deliver services. We present findings from a major research program, comprising ten studies conducted over five years, which aimed to facilitate the planning of service provision within one faith group, the UK Jewish community. We examine the opportunities and obstacles facing this ‘Jewish voluntary sector’ and we discuss the lessons from the research process itself about the benefits and challenges of taking a community-wide approach to the planning of services within and across a faith group. We conclude by reflecting on the appropriateness of a collective conceptualisation of ‘faith based organisations’ in the current public policy environment.