The Regeneration ProjectInterfaith Power and Light Campaign

2006 Annual Report

FOUNDATIONSBank of America Foundation • Catto Charitable Foundation •Compton Foundation • Douglas Luke – Luke Family Charitable Fund • El Dorado Foundation • 11th Hour Project • Energy Foundation •Evergreen Foundation • Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund • Flora Family Foundation • Fred Gellert Family Foundation • Global Environmental Project Institute • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation • Guide Foundation • Kendeda Sustainability Fund • Marisla Foundation • Mental Insight Foundation • Nicholas Family Charitable Trust • Oak Foundation USA, Inc. • Penney Family Fund • Richard & Rhoda Goldman Foundation • San Francisco Foundation • Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving • SKB Foundation • Stephens Charitable Foundation • Surdna Foundation • TAUPO Fund • Tides Foundation • Turner Foundation • Winslow Foundation

CONGREGATIONSAmerican Baptist Churches of the Pacific Coast, CA • Christ Episcopal Church, Alameda, CA • Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, San Francisco, CA • Incarnation Episcopal Church, Santa Rosa, CA • Montclair Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CA • Sisters of St. Joseph in California, Los Angeles, CA • St. John’s Episcopal Church, Oakland, CA • Stone Church of Willow Glen Presbyterian, San Jose, CA • Unitarian Universalist Community of Lake County, CA • Unity Church in the Mother Lode, Stockton, CA • Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, Denville, NJ • Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township, NJ • Sisters of Saint Joseph, Cleveland, OH

INDIVIDUALS (Gifts of $100 and above)W. G. and P. P. Aboud • Carmel Andrews • Melanie Aron • Annelies and Bill Atchley • Wendy Benchley • Victoria and Peter Bergstrom • Sallie Bingham • Sally Bingham • Donna and Nordin Blacker • Nicole Bledsoe • Lindsay and

2006 Statement of Activities

ExpensesProgram services $432,769.00CIPL program services $99,494.00AKIPL program services $13,402.00Fundraising $75,000.00

The Regeneration Project granted $108,000 to state IPL affiliates in 2006 through its donor-advised Interfaith Power and Light Fund at the Tides Foundation.

George Bolton • Sandy and Wayne Branstetter • Ava Jean Brumbaum • Mary Buxton and Ron Hess • James Caldwell • Theresa and Peter Camilli • George Cherrie • Shelley and John Chesley • Elizabeth Colton • Linda Cutts and Steven Weintraub • Sarah Davies • Richard Devens • Dianne Dillon-Ridgley • George Doubleday • Susan Dulany • Beth and William Ellis • A. L. Follett • J. B. Gould • Shelly Guyer and Tom Huntington • Frances and Michael Hall-Kieschnick • Suzanne Harris • Donna and Samuel Heffner • John Herrmann • Patricia Higgins and Robert Drysdale • Ramona and Richard Hinkle • David Hochschild • I’lee and Tony Hooker • Pamela and Bob Howard • L. Ronald and Bonnie Hoover • Heidi and Arthur Huguley • John James • Dianne and Thomas Jones • Lisa Keith and Allan Karp • Bert Kerstetter • Rhonda and William Lakatos • Susan Lankford • Sara and Steve Ledoux • Mary Lenore Blair • David Leof • Nathan Linn • Gretchen Long • Antoinette Mailliard • Emily and William Martin • Eve and Harvey Masonek • Karen and James McBride • George Montgomery • Richard Morrison • Mary and Michael Murphy • Julia and Michael Nash • Thomas Newman • Lynn and Nick Nicholas • Norma and Ed Osgood • Thomas Pakurar • Julie and Will Parish • Lisa Quane • Amy Rao • Clifford Raynes • Michael Reid • Robert Richard • Jonna Marie Risher • Sally and Toby Rosenblatt • Alice and Allen Ryan • Albert Schreck • Judy and Wylie Sheldon • Elsa and Rennie Spaulding • Jenepher Stowell • Susie Tomkins Buell • Paula Wenzl • Sheryl and James Wible • Marilyn Wilhelm • Sandy and John Wilson • Jackie and Robert Young

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONSEnvironmental Defense Action Fund • Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund

BUSINESSESAutocell Electronics, Inc. • Bron’s Automotive, Inc. • Green Mountain Energy Company • The Savant Group

DonorsThe Regeneration Project gratefully acknowledges the following gifts and grants made in 2006:

The Regeneration Project, P. O. Box 29336, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA 94129 • P: (415) 561-4891 F: (415) 561-4892 W: www.theregenerationproject.org

The mission of The Regeneration Project is to deepen the connection between ecology and faith.

Our Interfaith Power and Light Campaign is mobilizing a religious response to global warming in congregations through the promotion of renewable

energy, energy efficiency, and conservation.

Revenue

Individual11%

Foundation88%

Other1%

Individual

Foundation

Other

Expenses

Program services70%

Fundraising12%

Alaska IPL2%

California IPL16%

Program services

California IPL

Alaska IPL

Fundraising

IncomeIndividual contributions $81,662.00Foundation grants $640,665.00Other $10,605.00

TOTAL INCOME $732,932.00 TOTAL EXPENSES $620,665.00

YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31

StaffPresident Rev. Sally Bingham, Executive Director Susan StephensonOffice Manager Anouk Mackenzie, CIPL NORCAL Outreach Director Jessica Brown CIPL SOCAL Outreach Director Mike Sandler AKIPL Project Director Rev. Paul Klitzke

Advisory BoardPaul Gorman, National Religious Partnership for the EnvironmentFred Krupp, Environmental DefenseMichael Lerner, CommonwealGretchen Long, National Parks Conservation AssociationWilliam Reilly, Formerly Environmental Protection AgencyMary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology

Board of DirectorsRev. Clare Butterfield • Tom Huntington • Amy Rao • Jenepher Stowell

Printed on recycled paper with 30% post-consumer waste content.

From Mountaintops to Grassroots: An Interfaith Call to Action

Alaska www.akipl.orgCalifornia www.interfaithpower.orgColorado www.coipl.orgConnecticut www.irejn.orgGeorgia www.gipl.org

Michigan www.miipl.orgMinnesota www.c3mn.netNew Mexico www.nm-ipl.orgNew York www.nyipl.orgNorth Carolina www.ncipl.org

Oregon www.emoregon.org/power_light.phpTennessee www.tn-ipl.orgTexas www.txipl.orgVermont www.vtipl.orgVirginia www.vipl.org

In October 2006, over 4,000 congregations hosted screenings of An Inconvenient Truth and other documentaries to reach out to people of faith about the threat of global warming. An esti-mated 500,000 congregants, from churches, mosques, synagogues, and halls of worship in all 50 states, took part in the Spotlight on Global Warming Campaign to learn about and discuss the moral imperative of climate change. Media coverage of the event reached far and wide across the nation, with stories featured in print, on television, radio and the web, from CBS Morning News and NPR’s Talk of the Nation to The New York Times. Here are some of the testimonials from people who participated:

“We had wonderful turnouts, accompanied by lively discussions. It seems that people were hungry for this movie. We showed it to over 600 viewers!” - Adrian Dominican Sisters, Adrian, Michigan

“I am confident that our local showings allowed people in our rural area to become aware of the important issues of global warming that they otherwise would not have known about. God bless your work.” - M. King, Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral, Bardstown, Kentucky

Spotlight on Global Warming

Dear Friends and Supporters,

This has been a banner year for The Regeneration Project. Our message is reaching thousands of people all over the country, and global warming is now seen as a moral issue—one that people of faith can willingly take a leader-ship role in addressing. The sub-ject no longer belongs exclusively to the environmental community, but rather has landed profoundly at the feet of religious lead-ers. The issue has moved from skeptical debate to mainstream dialogue, and we at TRP are shifting our focus towards solving the problem, rather than having to convince others that there is a problem.

The Spotlight on Global Warming event gave us an enormous boost, and three more state programs have come on board since October 2006. In just this past year our budget has doubled, and we now have seven employees under our wing, with the result that we are outgrowing our beautiful space in the Presidio of San Francisco. We have come a long way since 1997, when we first started this movement in a small home office. But the expansion is welcome, and affirms that we are success-fully deepening the connection between ecology and faith.

—The Rev. Sally Bingham

A Note from The Regeneration Project’s President

Greater Washington www.gwipl.orgIllinois www.faithinplace.orgIowa www.ncrlc.com/IIPandL-webpage.htmlMaine www.meipl.orgMassachusetts www.mipandl.org

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Reducing Power Plant Emissions in IllinoisIn May, Illinois IPL members supported Gov. Blagojevich’s proposed mercury rule for Illinois, requiring coal-fired power plants to slash emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. The rule mandates a near-90% reduction in mercury discharges by 2009, making it the toughest measure in the country. The law passed in December 2006.

Green Building Workshops in OregonOregon IPL (OrIPL) led workshops on Green Building and Renovation as part of its educational programs and consulting services to houses of worship across the state. Congregations learned how to incorporate energy efficiency at every level, from using recycled construction materials to energy-efficient lighting and insulation, to investing in re-newable energy such as solar power. OrIPL offers 20-50% discounts on consulting services to member congregations, helping them to become better stewards of the Earth’s resources, as well as their finances.

New IPL: AlaskaIn the fall of 2006, Alaska IPL became the 20th state program. Studies confirm that climate change is affecting the northern-most parts of the globe more rapidly than others. Given the potential threat to the people, plants, and animals of Alaska, the moral responsibility to protect God’s Creation is nowhere greater than here.

Clean Energy in Maine Maine IPL (MeIPL) is the only affiliate in the IPL network that sells zero-emission renewable energy directly to the public. MeIPL’s clean energy products come from wind, as well as Maine’s only low-impact hydropower dam on the Androscog-gin River. Using funds from product revenues, in 2006 MeIPL contributed $8,000 to the Downeast Solar Co-op to help make solar installations more affordable for Maine residents.

Switching to Energy-Saving Lightbulbs in GeorgiaIn November, Georgia IPL organized an event to replace 3,500 regular light bulbs with 3,500 energy-saving light bulbs in 3.5 hours at a large affordable housing complex in Atlanta. Projected savings estimate a reduction of almost 1,600 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and savings of $135,000 in utility bills and replacement costs.

Photo credits: William Foster, Office of Governor Schwarzenegger

Capping Greenhouse Gases in CaliforniaIn June 2006, California IPL organized support from more than 100 religious leaders for a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions in California. The Rev. Sally Bingham is shown here standing behind Gov. Schwarzenegger as he signs an executive ordersupporting the cap.

Spreading the Word in DC and the NationIn late September, the Washington National Cathedral was the first of 4,000 houses of worship to show An Inconvenient Truth across the country. The screenings reached an estimated 500,000 congregants, many of whom would not have seen the documentary otherwise.