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Selective Purchasing Policy Guide

Goods and services represent a major portion of most organization’s costs. Paying attention to choices in this arena represents a major opportunity to raise awareness, formalize a commitment to ethical purchasing, and make investments using our faith-based values. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has a long history of such purchasing. Endorsement of Project Equality by at least one of the predecessor church bodies and then by the ELCA in the 1990s represents a decision to source services from groups who ensure pro-active non-discrimination policies. The more recent coffee project sponsored by Lutheran World Relief is an example of grassroots decisions to purchase coffee from ethical sources. [Learn more]

• Anti-sweatshop Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009


• Diversity Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009


• Eco-Travel Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009


• Fair Trade Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009


• Green Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009


• Local/Small Business Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009


• Middle East Strategy and Selective Purchasing Policy
  Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility – April 2009