Targeting Human Needs
	At-Risk Youth Increasing Nonprofit Capacity Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery Disadvantaged Students Global HIV/AIDS Homelessness Hunger Malaria Economic Development and Public-Private Partnerships Prisoner Re-entry Volunteerism and Private Strategies Substance Abuse and Recovery Veterans Services Community Health Services

Strengthening and extending the work of “neighborhood healers” called for more than any one set of programs or policies. These efforts sought not only actions by government, but also transformation in government. The Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) works to fundamentally alter the way government addresses many human services needs, both in terms of Presidential initiatives and in terms of the people whose lives have been changed. 

Targeting Human Needs
As a result of the FBCI, local-level, personal-touch solutions to human services needs are active across virtually every Federal enterprise that engages poverty, disease, and other social ills. The FBCI pairs the resources of government with the unique strengths of local faith-based and community-based organizations to address multiple human services needs. 

Signature Presidential Initiatives
The change envisioned by President Bush is most clear in new Federal programs that reflect how government’s approach to issues is best solved through bottom-up strategies. These signature Presidential priorities have achieved tangible, transformational results in the lives of those in need.

Portraits of Compassion Videos
Each day across the country, passionate citizens rally together through volunteer organizations, local nonprofit organizations, houses of worship, and other civic groups to serve their neighbors and lift their communities. To capture the impact of the work of these efforts, the FBCI recognized exceptional video submissions to the Portraits of Compassion video story contest.