GreenFaith
Grassroots. Multi-faith. Climate Justice.
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
GreenFaith is addressing the scourge of climate change. While more people are feeling the effects of climate change, the heaviest impacts are battering the most vulnerable among us globally – the poor, ethnic and cultural minorities, indigenous peoples, women, children, and the elderly. Widely accepted projections forecast 200 million climate refugees by 2050, people forced to leave their homes due to sea-level rise, drought, fires, and disruptions of once-reliable monsoon and weather patterns. At the same time, the fossil fuel industry continues to increase exploration for new reserves, banks increase financing for oil and gas infrastructure, and agribusinesses are driving deforestation to higher levels globally – all with substantial levels of government subsidy and legislative, regulatory, and enforcement support (or lack thereof). Fundamentalist religions negatively impact and legitimate the issue and need to be countered by moderate and progressive forces of faith and goodwill.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Faiths for Climate Justice
Because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk, GreenFaith is building a worldwide, multi-faith climate justice movement. We organize people of diverse faiths across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America to stop new fossil fuel projects and create a renewable energy upsurge that generates millions of green jobs. We do this through base-building and training emerging leaders from religious and spiritual communities who campaign for climate action.
Our goals:
End new coal, oil, gas and deforestation projects and related financing;
Win commitments for green jobs, a just transition, universal access to clean energy;
Secure loss and damage funding from countries most responsible for emissions;
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of GreenFaith Circles
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Interfaith groups
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
GreenFaith Circles are local people of faith and faith leaders working for climate justice.
Number of GreenFaith institutional partners
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Interfaith groups
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Across the globe, GreenFaith partners with diverse multi-faith institutions in our work for climate justice.
Number of individuals applying skills learned through the organization's training
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
GreenFaith leaders trained to take faith-filled action for climate justice.
Number of national media pieces on the topic
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Media stories, including in the Associated Press, Washington Post, La Croix and some of the largest papers in East Africa, France, Indonesia and Japan.
Number of public events held to further mission
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Rallies, events, or meetings with decisionmakers to advance climate justice across the globe.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Because the Earth and all people are sacred and at risk, GreenFaith is building a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environment movement.
Together, our members create communities to transform ourselves, our spiritual institutions, and society to protect the planet and create a compassionate, loving, and just world.
We envision a world transformed, in which humanity in all its diversity has developed a shared reverence for life on Earth. Religious and spiritual communities everywhere generate a moral awakening to the sacredness of Earth and the dignity of all people. Together, we are building resilient, caring communities and economies that meet everyone’s needs and protect the planet. The era of conquest, extraction, and exploitation has given way to cooperation and community.
The good life is one of connectedness—with each other and all of nature. It is a world of flourishing life that replaces despair with joy, scarcity with shared abundance, and privilege with justly distributed power.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Because history tells us that cultural change precedes political & policy change, GreenFaith believes religious leaders and people of faith across the globe can play a unique and critical role in the movement ecosystem by influencing the dominant culture (ie. shifting belief systems) in order to advance long term structural change that is rooted in love, justice, and compassion.
GreenFaith’s strategy to bring about cultural change is to engage in transformational, relational organizing by developing authentic relationships and engaging with people of faith and spirit holistically: using spiritual, cultural, educational, and political tools.
GreenFaith will organize unorganized people of faith, spiritually but not religious people, religious leaders & students, and faith institutions across the globe to develop local interfaith circles from which they will act to deepen relationships, build community, and power. These are GreenFaith Circles: Communities of Care and Resilience.
GreenFaith members and leaders, in their circles, will engage in three GreenFaith Pathways to Power to achieve change: personal transformation, institutional change, and systemic change.
GreenFaith Circles work to change the dominant paradigms through learning, building deep relationships, deepening spiritual practices and shared moral resolve, and developing new leadership skills. Through the collective power they build, GreenFaith Circles will change personal and faith institutions' habits; hold decision-makers accountable, and hold campaigns to ultimately change behaviors, policies, and laws that threaten the climate and our shared future.
Together, GreenFaith Circles across the globe, will build and wield sufficient power to shift culture and influence decision-makers locally, nationally, and internationally in addressing the global climate and environmental crisis.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
GreenFaith is the only international interfaith organization working on addressing climate change. GreenFaith has developed an international network that is already in 14 countries presently. GreenFaith's Circles are building collective power, fostering loving mobilization, and advancing changes in behavior, policies, and laws. They are challenging the dominant systems from the moral position of the collective actions of our diverse faiths.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In 2020, GreenFaith has just begun a multi-year launch of new international work. This effort expands GreenFaith's historic work on the national level in the US to the global stage. More than 20,000 individuals have become directly engaged in this urgent work around climate change. GreenFaith is formally launching an initial 14-nation international network of GreenFaith hubs, each populated with GreenFaith Circles: Communities of Care and Resilience. GreenFaith will also call together global faith leaders for collective action in advance of the COP 2020 (or its delayed equivalent).
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GreenFaith
Board of directorsas of 02/15/2024
Deborah Prinz
GreenFaith
Mark Brescia
Denise Patel
Philip I. Brilliant
Fred Profeta
Jack Gorman
Pastor Leo Woodberry
Irene Woodard
Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome Asmani
The Rt. Rev. Nathan Kyamanya
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.