Table of Contents

3	Introduction
5	Indiana's Welfare Reform and Charitable Choice
7	Data Sources
9	Research Strategy and Methods
10	Variables and Measures
11	Findings
11	Client Survey Results
20	Provider Survey Results
24	Discussion and Implications
30	Appendix A: Profiles of Case-Matched Faith-Based and Non-Religious Non-Profit Organizations
33	Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography
TABLES
12	Table 1: Definition of Variables in the Analysis of the Client-Level Data
13	Table 2: Definition of Variables in the Analysis of the Agency-Level Data
16	Table 3: Characteristics of Respondents with Needs and Who Got Help from Faith Based Organizations, Weighted to Reflect the State Public Assistance Population
18	Table 4: Logistic Regression Results for Help Received from Faith-Based Organizations
19	Table 5: Changes in the Probability of Receiving FBO Help
21	Table 6: Comparison of Means of Faith-Based and Non-Religious Non-Profit Community Social Service Providers in Indiana, 1998-1999
22	Table 7: Comparison of Means of FBOs and Non-FBOs in Indiana, 1998-1999
24	Table 8: Logit Regression Results Predicting Tightened Eligibility Criteria by Social Service Providers
FIGURES
14	Figure 1: Percentage of TANF Recipients Who Needed Help by Type of Help Needed
14	Figure 2: Percentage of TANF Recipients Who Received Most or All of the Help Needed

Data analysis for this project was supported by a grant from the Joyce Foundation. Data collection was funded by separate grants from the Joyce Foundation, Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration, and the Indiana Township Association. The authors gratefully acknowledge their support. All views are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. All errors are the authors'.

Maureen A. Pirog is the co-director of the Institute for Family and Social Responsibility and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs where she chairs the policy analysis faculty. She is an elected member of the APPAM Policy Council. She has been principal investigator, project director, or research team member on contracts and grants in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Brookings Institution, the Ford Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Ameritech Foundation, among others. She received her Ph.D. in policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania and has over 50 articles or books on social policy issues that have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Science Quarterly, Family Relations, and Sociological Methods and Research.

David A. Reingold is director of research and policy development at the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency that oversees AmeriCorps, the National Service Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America. He is on leave from Indiana University where he is an assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and adjunct assistant professor of sociology and philanthropic studies. He is also a member and vice-chairman of the Bloomington Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. His work has appeared in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Studies, Urban Studies, Economic Development Quarterly and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, among other social science journals. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.