Staff members with the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives will visit the Cornell campus next week to discuss President George W. Bush's proposal for government funding of faith-based groups. The meeting will take place Monday, April 23, at 7 p.m. in the second floor auditorium of Anabel Taylor Hall. Members of the public are encouraged to attend.
The Rev. Mark Scott of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives will provide opening remarks. Scott is former director of the Ella J. Baker House in Dorchester, Mass., a faith-based settlement house. In March, he addressed a community forum in Ithaca by speaker phone. That meeting, held in the Tompkins County Department of Social Services building, featured a panel of clergy, human service professionals, Cornell Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy (CRESP) members and nonprofit leaders, and it drew more than 150 area residents.
The Cornell meeting is sponsored by CRESP, Area Congregations Together (ACT) and The Ithaca Journal. For more information, contact ACT's Karen Kaufmann at 257-0528; CRESP's Anke Wessels at 255-5027; or Gary Stewart at The Ithaca Journal, 274-9213.
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