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Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix B: Ways That Government Financially Supports Faith-Based Social Services

Luis Lugo, Director of the Religion Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, has developed a nine-point scale in describing the variety of ways that the government can support faith-based agencies in organizations in their delivery of social welfare services.  The nine types of government support — ordered from high to low in terms of general pub
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Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendix A: Types of Programs Included in NSHAPC

NSHAPC covered 16 different types of homeless assistance programs, defined as follows:
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Appendices

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Appendices

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Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): The Promise

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): The Promise and Challenge of Using Volunteers to Provide Community-Based Marriage Education

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Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): Using

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): Using Research to Guide the Development of an Evolving Statewide Initiative

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Starting Early: How the Oklahoma Marriage

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): Starting Early: How the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative Helps Schools Prepare Young People for Healthy Marriages

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Conclusions

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Conclusions

Faith-based and other community-based non-profit organizations have a long history of helping people in need.  The NSHAPC data analyzed here provide yet more evidence of the continuing importance of faith-based organizations in serving people who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness.  Faith-based non-profits run the majority of homeless
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Government Funding of Homeless Assistance Programs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Government Funding of Homeless Assistance Programs

Revenue streams in non-profit organizations are “a complex mix of private and public dollars raised through grants, contracts, fees for services, sales, donations, investment income, special events income, and income from commercial ventures” (Boris 1998) and NSHAPC collected only very limited funding information from service providers.  The
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Referrals to and from Programs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Referrals to and from Programs

The CATI survey asked respondents where most of their clients came from — referrals from other programs, self-referral, outreach by program staff, or other. 21  Respondents were also allowed to report that there was no single source from which most of their clients came.  Responses to this question are reported in  Table 9  for faith-base
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Primary Client Needs, Availability of Services,

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Primary Client Needs, Availability of Services, and Location of Services

The above analysis provides a broad sketch of homeless client needs for a wide range of services.  The remainder of this section examines a few of these needs in more detail, namely the twelve service needs that have been identified by over half of all program administrators as being needed by all or most clients (see  Table 8 ).  In addition t
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All Client Needs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. All Client Needs

When asked about each of the 59 different service needs, administrators were asked if “all,” “most,” “some,” or “none” of their clients had this need.  Table 7 lists all 59 service needs and reports what share of programs run by faith-based non-profits, secular non-profits, and government organizations have an administrator who th
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Needs of Homeless Assistance Clients

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Needs of Homeless Assistance Clients

A major focus of the NSHAPC mail survey was administrators’ perceptions of homeless clients’ needs. 18   The survey asked about 59 distinct service needs ranging from food, clothing, and housing to employment and health care (see  Table 7  for a complete listing).  The basic question asked of all respondents to the mail survey was:   P
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Special Focus of Homeless Assistance Programs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Special Focus of Homeless Assistance Programs

In addition to asking what types of clients they serve, NSHAPC asked program administrators whether their programs  focused  on one or more special population groups, such as children, veterans, or HIV patients. 16    Table 5  lists the share of faith-based non-profits, secular non-profits, and government run programs that focus on each spe
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Clients of Homeless Assistance Programs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Clients of Homeless Assistance Programs

NSHAPC asked program administrators a number of questions about the clients of their programs, including whether “on an average day in February 1996 that the [emergency shelter or other type of] program operated, did the program serve (1) families with children (follow-up questions ask what share were single- versus two-parent, and among the sin
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Program Contacts

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Program Contacts

In addition to documenting numbers (and types) of programs, the NSHAPC survey asked program administrators about how many people they expected to serve through their program on an average day in February 1996.  Summing these estimates across all programs (or across programs of a given type) yields an estimate of the total number of “program con
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Numbers and Types of Homeless Assistance Programs

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Numbers and Types of Homeless Assistance Programs

NSHAPC documented just under 40,000 homeless assistance programs operating on an average day in February 1996 (see  Table 1  and  Figure 1 ).  Secular non-profits run almost one-half (47 percent) of these, followed by faith-based non-profits (32 percent), and government agencies (13 percent).  Another 0.6 percent of all programs are run by fo
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The National Survey of Homeless Assistance

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. The National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC) is a comprehensive nationally representative survey of programs providing homeless assistance services and the clients of these programs.  The survey was conceived, developed, and funded by 12 federal agencies under the auspices of the Interagency Council on the Homele
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Introduction

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs. Introduction

One of the most dramatic findings to emerge from the 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC) is the tremendous growth in the number and variety of homeless assistance programs during the late 1980s and early 1990s.  There is now a virtual “industry” of homeless assistance programs, and initial analyses of NS
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The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance

The 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients: A Comparison of Faith-Based and Secular Non-Profit Programs

Maximizing the Value of Philanthropic Efforts

Maximizing the Value of Philanthropic Efforts through Planned Partnerships between the U.S. Government and Private Foundations

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