Berkowitz uses the recently-released 122 page report, “The Quiet Revolution: The President’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative: A Seven-Year Status Report” (get your copy here),  as a point of departure to examine statements by Senator Clinton, McCain and Obama on related issues, and to offer some thoughts about how the OFBCI might fare under their Administrations. 

Here are two key paragraphs from Berkowitz:

Getting the full measure of Bush's faith-based initiative is no easy task. There have been some notable faith-based successes. It has given the term "faith-based" political currency; expanded the initiative to a number of states -- according to the White House, some 35 governors and 100 mayors have established faith-based offices; opened the doors for more religious organizations to be eligible to receive government grants; doled several billion dollars to (mostly) constituent religious groups; and overcame political opposition by issuing of several significant executive orders to move the project forward.

On the other hand there are still no adequate measures in place to gauge whether religious organizations providing social services outperform -- or even perform equally as well -- as their secular counterparts. In addition, the initiative has been used as a religious patronage system to recruit minority religious officials and bolster Bush's conservative evangelical constituency. And the faith-based initiative still hasn't received any legislative approval.