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What is the Partnership?

What the Partnership Does

  • The Partnership commissions eminent scholars to establish the intellectual roots of the religious response. In so doing, it links environmentalism to teachings to which civilization has turned for centuries.
  • The Partnership integrates initiatives into established religious agencies that are addressing other social issues. In so doing, it models an environmentalism linked to economic justice, human health, and global peace and security.
  • The Partnership helps clergy and lay people enact diverse programs in thousands of congregations. In so doing, it provides an entirely new source of community-based environmental initiative.
  • The Partnership convenes briefings and trainings for thousands of clergy and lay people. In so doing, it generates not only leadership for new religious programs but fresh allies for environmental initiatives outside the faith community.
  • The Partnership undertakes local and national public policy initiatives. In so doing, it seeks to present moral principles, beyond political partisanship, to help guide action for the common good.
  • The Partnership engages wide interest in its program beyond the faith community. In so doing, it invites a wider environmental vision beyond policy and partisanship.
  • The Partnership encourages 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 helps move discussion of environmental issues beyond more narrow political partisanship and public policy.

Learn more about what the Partnership has accomplished in each of these areas.

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