White House Names Adviser on Religious Charities
August 4, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
President Bush has named Jay F. Hein, president of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, in Indianapolis, to run the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, The Washington Post reports.
The White House office is in charge of the administration’s efforts to channel more government money to religious charities.
Mr. Hein succeeds H. James Towey, who resigned from the post in April to become the president of Saint Vincent College, in Latrobe, Pa.
Before he founded the Sagamore Institute in 2004, Mr. Hein was executive director of the Hudson Institute, in Washington, and an adviser on welfare to Tommy G. Thompson when he served as governor of Wisconsin.
