• Scholarship
• Integration of Initiatives into Religious Agencies
• Congregational Programs
• Leadership Training
• Public Policy Initiatives
• Outreach Beyond the Faith Community
• Media Coverage

The Partnership has commissioned eminent scholars to establish the intellectual roots of the religious response. In so doing, it has linked a concern for the environment to religious teachings to which civilization has turned for centuries.

• The U.S. Catholic bishops have convened scholars' conferences periodically and distributed widely materials based on these deliberations.
• Hundreds of evangelical leaders signed an Evangelical Environmental Declaration in a consultation sponsored by Dr. Billy Graham's Christianity Today.
• Jewish scholars met in three major conferences to prepare materials for integration into anthologies, conferences, educational curriculum, and adaptation for sermons and other popular formats.
• Scholars from the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant traditions gathered to consider the theological dimensions of the relationship between children’s health and the environment.
• In April 2007, Catholic Coalition for Children and a Safe Environment (CASE) members hosted a major Catholic consultation, "Protecting Human Life and Caring for Creation", on the effects of environmental toxins on unborn children.
• In July 2008, a convocation on “Life, Justice & Family: Partners in the New Evangelization” (sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the Diocese of Camden, and the USCCB Pro-Life Secretariat) brought together family life, social justice, and respect life leaders along with physicians and ethicists to discuss new ways to promote human life and dignity, and included a session on "Toxins, the Environment and the Child in the Womb."

Integration of Initiatives into Religious Agencies

The Partnership integrates initiatives into established religious agencies which are addressing other social issues. In so doing, it models an environmentalism linked to economic justice, human health, global peace and security.

• The Association of Evangelical Relief and Development agencies, with programs in 40 countries, prepared materials for field staff who would become environmental advocates as well as hunger workers.
• The United Jewish Appeal has sponsored a curriculum for outdoor Jewish environmental education.
• Habitat for Humanity, with 1,200 affiliates in the United States, identified chemical threats in construction.
• The Catholic Coalition for Children and a Safe Environment (CASE) is a collaborative effort by Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Health Association, National Catholic Education Association, National Council of Catholic Women, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office of Domestic Social Development and Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.  
• Children’s Environmental Health was also the subject of a four-state campaign with Catholic and Jewish Women’s Groups, with video presentations at leaders’ conventions and involvement in state coalitions to raise awareness and advocate for legislation.
• Environmental justice is an ongoing objective of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development. 
• The USCCB Environmental Justice Program and the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change have offered grants to dioceses and national Catholic organizations to encourage integration of climate change projects into their mission and activities.
• The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life has become a resource for environmental initiatives in Jewish agencies.
• Over 300 evangelical leaders, including officials from denominations and relief and development agencies, committed themselves to promote biblically-grounded environmental engagement within the evangelical community.

The Partnership has helped clergy and lay people enact diverse programs in thousands of congregations. In so doing, it provided an entirely new source of community-based environmental initiative.

• The Partnership's faith groups have sent resource kits to over 100,000 congregations: every Catholic parish, virtually every synagogue, 50,000 mainline Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, 35,000 evangelical congregations.
• Materials have presented initiatives for a variety of ministries and activities: sermons for clergy, energy conservation tips for building managers, creation care lessons for Sunday school teachers, contacts with local scientists and environmental organizations.
• Worship resources for congregations that focus on caring for creation, stewardship and environmental themes such as consumption, energy conservation and water resources.
• The Partnership has identified several thousand diverse congregation-based projects and presented Creation Care Awards to recognize exemplary efforts by congregations and religious organizations.

The Partnership has convened briefings and trainings for thousands of clergy and lay people. In so doing, it generated not only leadership for new religious programs but brought a fresh voice to the public concern about environmental concerns.

• Partnership leaders have enlisted support for programs in meetings of all Catholic bishops and state Catholic conference executives; senior officials of 34 mainline Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and Black church communions; officers of 26 national Jewish agencies.
• In close to one hundred regional trainings, faith groups have prepared over 5,000 clergy and lay people to lead congregational projects and to undertake collaborations with representatives of other sectors in society.
• The National Council of Churches has offered training and support to emerging practitioners engaged in faith-based environmental work through its Faith and Eco-Justice Fellowship program.
• The Jewish Global Environmental Network developed partnerships and projects through which Jewish environmental leaders in Israel and around the world can work together toward a sustainable future for Israel.
• The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, with the active and engaged support of the USCCB Environmental Justice Program, trained two-dozen "Climate Ambassadors" from around the country to spread the good news of Catholic teaching on environmental justice and climate change.  They are reaching thousands more Catholics who may not hear the message.

The Partnership has undertaken local and national public policy initiatives. In so doing, it has sought to present moral principles, beyond political partisanship, to help guide action for the common good.

NRPE led the effort to address the needs of developing countries (known as international adaptation) in US climate legislation

• Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaigns have been established in 20 states, and an Interfaith Climate Change Network has recruited 25,000 individuals as advocates for national climate policy.
• The U.S. Catholic bishops published a pastoral statement entitled "Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence, and the Common Good."
• 40 senior religious leaders composed "Let There Be Light," a religious reflection on energy policy.
• Evangelical Christians were widely credited for having helped prevent rollback of the Endangered Species Act.
• The Jewish community enacted a two-year campaign to prevent deforestation.
• A delegation of Christian and Jewish leaders met with officials from Ford, General Motors, and the United Auto Workers to deliver an “Open Letter to Automobile Executives” and held substantive discussions on fuel economy.
• Regional environmental justice projects were initiated in Catholic dioceses on the issues of sprawl (Los Angeles and Connecticut), sustainable agriculture (Iowa), transportation equity (Detroit), and water (Florida).
• Hundreds of people of faith signed a prayer petition sponsored by the National Council of Churches calling on political leaders to honor God’s command to tend the garden and commit to being better stewards of America’s air, water, wild lands and wildlife.

Outreach Beyond the Faith Community

The Partnership has engaged wide interest in its program beyond the faith community. In so doing, it has invited a wider environmental vision beyond policy and partisanship.

• The Partnership has helped prepare and facilitate multi-day retreats for the CEOs and executive officers of Monsanto Corporation and twice for CEOs of national environmental organizations.
• CEOs of labor unions, corporations, scientific associations, and environmental groups have joined religious leaders to discuss climate change.
• Internationally prominent scientists joined religious leaders from across the denominational spectrum to issue “Earth’s Climate Embraces Us All: A Plea from Religion and Science for Action on Global Climate Change,” calling on Congress to give serious attention to proposed climate change legislation.
• By many accounts, these interactions encourage environmentalists to explore essential moral values and vision for their own work in their own organizations.

Media Coverage

The Partnership has encouraged coverage of its activities in the secular media as well as the religious press, focusing largely on the activities of local faith communities. In so doing, it has helped move discussion of environmental issues beyond more narrow political partisanship and public policy.

• Over 2,000 news accounts have appeared, from the very smallest outlets such as the Laramie Daily Boomerang (WY) and the Downer's Grove Suburban Life (IL), to extended features in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and ABC World News Tonight.
• Thousands more stories and opinion pieces in the print, radio and network television media have featured a variety of Partner member initiatives, e.g., the “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign of the Evangelical Environmental Network, generating an unprecedented level of public interest in personal transportation decisions as moral and religious choices.