Church, meet State...

A HUD release out today calls attention to a series of training sessions designed to prepare "smaller community and faith-based organizations" to compete more successfully for public and private grants. Locations for the trainings include churches as well as public buildings and civic organizations. Tomorrow and Thursday, for example, members of "grassroots" groups in Little Rock can attend sessions at the North Little Rock Full Counsel Ministry. The workshops, which continue through September, are mainly scheduled in smaller cities though a handful are in places like Philadelphia and New York.