Charitable Choice: First Results from Three States

May 15, 2003 Charitable Choice: First Results from Three States The Charitable Choice provisions of the 1996 welfare reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), introduced a major shift in the relationship between government and religious, or "faith-based," human and social service organizations (FBOs). While federal, state, and local governments have all contracted with religious social service providers for many years, Charitable Choice legislation encourages government agencies to make greater use of such organizations and to contract directly with those considered "pervasively sectarian" to provide a broad array of social services. The legislation was premised . . .