Climate Justice Congregation Application & Renewal - Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light

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What is your role in the congregation?

For example: clergy, Green Team leader, congregant, etc.

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I am completing this form to:(Required)

renew our Climate Justice Congregation certification

apply to be a Climate Justice Congregation for the first time

FOR NEW CONGREGATIONS

Tell us about one or more earth actions your congregation took in 2025 that you want to celebrate (optional)

FOR RENEWING CONGREGATIONS

What work have you done this year to advance climate justice within your community?

Do you have photos you can share with us of your climate work this year?

This is not required, but we'd love to have photos to share with our networks and to put in our materials.

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FOR BOTH RENEWING CONGREGATION & NEW APPLICANTS

MNIPL offers many ways for your congregation to engage Climate Justice. This year, we're asking you to commit to trying out one or more of MNIPL's resources:

Understand how your congregation can lower your carbon usage by getting an energy efficiency audit with Buff Grace.
Click here to learn more about this process and email Buff Grace to get your audit scheduled.

Invite our staff team in to help your members upgrade their homes for climate.
Email Buff Grace to get something scheduled.

Learn how to become a Community Climate Resilience Hub to help your community navigate through climate-related weather events and support their climate goals.
Click here to learn more about the Community Climate Resilience Network and get involved.

Get involved with the Rise & Repair alliance to advocate for the rights of wild rice, a moratorium on hyperscale data centers, 100% electronics recycling, and more.
Click here to learn more about Rise & Repair.

Get involved with MNIPL's policy team to advance both legislative and administrative policy that will help us reach 100% carbon-free electricity and protect our communities from the harms of climate change.
Click here to sign up for policy updates from MNIPL.

Join our Reparations Learning Labs to understand how the impacts of stolen land and stolen labor have shaped how we treat this world and each other – and to take meaningful action.
Click here to learn more about our reparations work and sign up for our Reparations Learning Labs.

Schedule a Healing Minnesota Stories session to understand the history of the land, places, and people of Minnesota and how we can work to heal and repair.
Contact Jim Bear Jacobs to schedule a session.

This year our congregation will commit to:(Required)

Scheduling an energy efficiency audit

Getting involved with the Community Climate Resilience Network

Inviting MNIPL staff to talk about home energy efficiency

Getting involved with Rise & Repair

Sign up to be part of MNIPL's policy community

Participating in MNIPL's Reparations Learning Labs (if you missed this series, there will be another in early 2027)

Scheduling a Healing MN Stories session

What other climate justice work does your congregation plan to engage in?(Required)

MNIPL is only able to do our important work across the state due to the generosity of the congregations we work with. As part of the Climate Justice Congregations process, we ask congregations to make a donation to MNIPL. Can we count on you?(Required)

Please visit mnipl.org/donate to make your donation or mail a check to 4407 E Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406. If you need an invoice, please email Buff Grace at buff@mnipl.org with the amount you'd like to give.

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CLIMATE JUSTICE CONGREGATIONS

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2026 Climate Justice Congregations Application and Renewal Form

FOR NEW CONGREGATIONS

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FOR BOTH RENEWING CONGREGATION & NEW APPLICANTS

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