Organizations Filed Purposes:
Our mission is to inspire and equip people of faith and conscience to exercise stewardship of and love for all Creation. .
The mission of Michigan Interfaith Power and Light is to involve Michigan faith communities as stewards of the earth by promoting and implementing energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainable proactices through education, advocacy and action.
We conducted outreach for utility energy efficiency programs, helping 180 congregations across the lower peninsula reduce their negative environmental impact and become better stewards of Earth with free energy efficient upgrades.
In the run up to the 2020 election, we educated and mobilized supporters around our multi-issue faith values voter guide, supplied over 40 faith leaders with resources on giving sermons about voting our values on climate, and reached over 100,000 potential voters to inform and empower them to participate in the election.
Hope for Creation program established online resource-sharing platforms, hosted monthly virtual events to support congregational green teams, sponsored an interfaith Earth Week service, and laid the groundwork for new initiatives including polystyrene recycling, installing E/V charging stations at houses of worship & creating a network of faithbased community gardens. Michigan Poor People's Campaign organized virtual events of education and advocacy both locally and nationally on behalf of the 140 million low-income and impacted people in this country. Hope for Creation and the Poor People's Campaign are fiscally-sponsored projects of Michigan IPL.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Leah Wiste | Executive Director | 40 | $65,868 |
| Sr Kathy Nolan | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Suresh Rama | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Bishop Rayford Ray | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Rev Deb Hansen | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| David Arnosti | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| William Antoun | Board Member | 2 | $0 |
| Rabbi Moshe Givental | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Sonya Pouncy | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Jim Detjen | Vice President | 2 | $0 |
| Rev John Schleicher | President | 2 | $0 |
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