Since the White House's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives started a neighborhood-level grant program over a year ago, more than $730,000 has flowed to dozens of grass-roots poverty groups in Minnesota that never got federal funds before. Still, according to numbers just released by the White House, the new money is but a small part of the $18.5 million in federal grants that went last year to 36 traditional church-affiliated charities in Minnesota, many of which have been getting federal money for decades. Of that, less than 5 percent went to non-Christian faith groups, much of it in grants to Jewish Family and Children's Services and Elim Transitional Housing.
[Not that this constitutes a state endorsement of religion or anything.]
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