Title

Engaged Organizations: The Catholic Foundation of Ohio - Columbus

Abstract

The Catholic Foundation of Ohio - Columbus office is designed to be responsive to issues that arise from within the diocesan parishes and schools. More funding for energy efficiency projects have become available over time as the needs arise. The foundation has recently partnered with the Columbus Catholic Diocese on their Diocean Loan LED program, which has had considerable impact on diocesan savings.

Description

The Catholic Foundation of Columbus, Ohio is designed to be responsive to interests that come from within the diocesan parishes and schools. To the extent that those interests have included creation care work, there has been grant activity. Dan Kurth, Director of Grants for the Catholic Foundation, offers that the foundation’s rubric for creation care initiatives is essentially: Does this project have any green energy sustainability pieces to it? The energy efficiency component of the foundation’s responsive grants is the main integration of a Laudato Si' principle into the foundation's grant work. As the Laudato Si encyclical has grown in awareness, more funding has become available as energy efficiency-related projects have become more commonplace over time.

The foundation has recently partnered with the Columbus Catholic Diocese on their Diocean Loan LED program, which has had considerable impact on diocesan savings. In addition, the foundation encourages schools to establish their own maintenance reserve funds in order to maintain more efficient operations. Specifically, there is a push to have schools and parishes upgrade their boilers, change over to LED lighting, and replace their windows with more efficient ones.

The Catholic Foundation of Ohio - Columbus

Denomination

Christian

Sub-Tradition

Roman Catholic

Audience

All audiences/General public

Clergy

Congregation members

(Church) Administrators

Religious Education Teachers

Rights

The original html version of this resource was accessed at https://catholic-foundation.org/ on December 14, 2020.

Resources For Action

Success Stories

Issues

Climate and Energy