Green Initiatives

Catholic Charities’ of Kansas City-St. Joseph is committed to serving the vulnerable people and organizations in our communities, as well as being good stewards of the earth.

In 2009, Catholic Charities formed a Green Team with Green Team Captains strategically placed throughout our 27-county service area.

Catholic Charities’ commitment to the environment includes:

• consolidating and relocating agency headquarters into what is referred to as “The Most Green Building” in Kansas City

• commissioning a volunteer to design a “green” graphic which is now noted on all “green” products and correspondence

• implementing flex-time schedules to optional 4-day work week when feasible to reduce fuel usage

• striving to “Go Paperless” as much as office reporting and recording allows

• recycling paper, aluminum, glass, and plastic at each facility location; plastic grocery bags are collected and reused at our food pantries and clothing closets

• shredding and recycling of documents as much as possible

• implementing the EcoPrint setting on copiers and the Century Gothic font on personal computers to save toner and ink

• using sustainable forestry initiative paper whenever possible

• collaborating with Missouri Gas Energy and Kansas City Power & Light to distribute weatherization and energy saving kits to poverty-level seniors in the Kansas City Metro area.

Catholic Charities is proud of these environmental practices to do our part in caring for the earth.