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For example: USAID. How great it is to be a left wing NGO that espouses left wing policies and employs left wingers be fully funded by...the American taxpayer! How nice
Other than it's hogslop, it sounds good. I knew people of faith who are in religious organizations that use USAID.
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Yes, USAID actively engages with and provides funding to many religious and faith-based organizations (FBOs) to support development and humanitarian work. In fact, faith-based groups are some of the largest recipients of USAID funds.
However, USAID does not provide public relations (PR) assistance. Instead, it works with these groups to support specific development and humanitarian projects. To avoid issues of church-state separation, USAID has strict rules preventing its funds from being used for inherently religious activities like worship or proselytization. SNIP
I've got no problem at all with collaborating with faith based orgs - and I even think that some of them are deceitful and fraudulent to get the aid (through my friends), but the ones that aren't more than make up for that.
One late friend, may he RIP, was working on getting water filters to remote parts of Africa, and he sold them to help finance that part. He also worked on a project an island over from me to pave access roads into barrios for emergency vehicles. He also got these hand hauled fire vehicles for the areas they couldn't get into. He was also assessing school facilities in a trip to Africa. Multi talented fellow who could easily have been a success on Wall Street. A couple of head injuries from riding motorbikes did him in. I was the only person outside of the church to attend his funeral.
