What catholics do at a local level

The E.J.P has provided over 150 small grants to several community organizations. The projects range from educational retreats across the country to large scale organizing against the destruction of wetlands in coastal Louisiana. While the E.J.P does not offer grants any more the programs created still serve as models of how small communities can effect both local and national change.
Father Kemp directs preaching the Just Word, a program based at thew Woodstock theological center at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. At these meetings were Father Kemp preaches he reflects on a deeper lack of connection to the Earth. If the best environmental activism is local, then environmental awareness must begin with locals immediately.
Santuario Sister farm in central Texas which was founded in 2001 has organized many projects that combine empowerment of local Latina women with the modeling of sound environmental practices.