Integration of Initiatives into Religious Agencies

• Children’s Environmental Health has also been 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 has now become an ongoing objective of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Social Development and World Peace.
• The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life has become a resource for environmental initiatives in Jewish agencies as well as an independent, financially self-supporting organization.
• A group of 30 evangelical leaders, including the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, senior editors of Christianity Today magazine, and 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 135,000 congregations each year for three successive years: 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 agents: 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 are annually produced that focus on 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.