The Green Hevra, a network of Jewish environmental initiatives, has released the Green Hevra Report 2014, a study exploring the growth, scale, focus, and challenges fac­ing today’s Jewish environmental field.

This report, created by the Jewish envi­ronmental movement, assesses 124 Jewish environmental initiatives to clarify and com­municate the state of the field. How has the Jewish environmental field grown in the last decade? In what regions are Jewish environ­mental initiatives most active? How many in­dividuals do they reach? What is the average budget of Jewish environmental initiatives in North America, and how are they staffed? What challenges are faced by this young and growing new movement in Jewish life? For example, the report finds that:

Almost three-quarters of Jewish envi­ronmental initiatives are focusing on education, while significantly fewer organizations focus their attention on environmental improvements in Jew­ish institutions, grant-making, or advo­cacy.

The Jewish environmental field in­cludes over 200,000 participants each year, and reaches nearly 700,000 read­ers with its communications materials.

The total budget reported for the field was approximately $24 million.

This report complements and adds to the information base created by Seeds of Opportunity: A National Study on Immer­sive Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmen­tal Education (JOFEE), which assessed the im­pact on Jewish education outcomes from a specific set of immersive programs taking place within the Jewish outdoor, food, and environmental education fields. The new re­port takes a more comprehensive view of Jewish environmental organizations, assess­ing the nature of this growing field, and pro­viding a new set of data for practitioners, funders, and researchers to understand the field as a whole.