Katrina relief official quits after pastors fault fiscal oversight: Fund called "a philanthropic FEMA"
The executive director of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund has resigned her post after prominent members of the fund’s religious advisory committee quit and harshly criticized the manner in which the fund made grants to houses of worship.
Fund cochairs Don Evans and Alexis Herman announced July 14 that Mary Ann Wyrsch would be replaced by Constance Berry Newman, an executive with a Washington lobbying group, while acknowledging the concerns stated by former committee cochairs, Bishop T. D. Jakes of Dallas and William H. Gray III, a pastor in Philadelphia.