"Be so tolerant that your bosom becomes wide like the ocean. Become inspired with faith and love of human beings. Let there be no troubled souls to whom you do not offer a hand, and about whom you remain unconcerned."
M. Fethullah Gulen

FID Luncheon Forum-April 2010

LUNCHEON FORUM

Jannah Scott Deputy Director
DHS Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

Theme: ‘A New Era: President Obama’s Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Initiative’

Abstract

This first-of-its-kind White House advisory group made up of diverse religious and community non-profit leaders was appointed by the President last spring to develop recommendations on how the government can better partner with faith and neighborhood based organizations. The Council represented leaders from across religious, political and ideological lines, who came together in a spirit of civility and respect to address some of the most pressing issues facing government and nonprofits. They deliberated over months of proceedings and dozens of conference calls and developed more than 60 consensus recommendations.

President Obama asked the Council to focus its attention on making recommendations in
the following priority areas:

• Economic Recovery and Domestic Poverty
• Environment and Climate Change
• Fatherhood and Healthy Families
• Global Poverty and Development
• Interreligious Cooperation
• Reform of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood PartnershipsThis presentation will highlight several of the recommendations.

Biography

Strategist, Planner, Advisor, Public Policy Expert—Jannah Scott has served in many capacities with government, faith and the nonprofit community.

In March of this year, Jannah joined President Obama’s administration and Secretary Napolitano as Deputy Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In that role, Jannah guides the engagement of faith-based and community groups on issues of emergency preparedness, recovery and response; immigration policy; and other issues within Homeland Security. She also helps groups get connected with President Obama’s White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the other 11 federal centers for faith-based and community initiatives.

From 2005 to 2009 she served as the Policy Advisor on Faith and Community Initiatives to former Arizona Governor—now Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security-- Janet Napolitano. In that role, Jannah represented the Governor with community investment coalitions, faith leaders, cities and counties to establish local initiatives and expanded grant opportunities aimed at serving the poorest and most vulnerable citizens of our state. During her tenure with the Governor’s Office, Jannah was privileged to be an Arizona delegate on several faith and civil society exchange journeys with Arizona government and business leaders, traveling to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey.

She has a Master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Public Health Planning and Policy, and an honorary Doctorate of Theology from the Desert Rose Christian College in Phoenix.

Date: Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Reception: 12:00 p.m.
Speech: 12:15 p.m.
Venue : FID Center

2330 W. University Dr. Suite 5 Tempe, AZ 85281

(480) 648-6703

 
Please kindly RSVP by e-mail only at rsvp@fid-az.org by Sunday, April 4th, 2010