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U.S. CBO Role
• Thank you!
• $11 million of the $23.5 million raised
has come through U.S. boards of pensions
and their recommended annual conference
petitions/actions
Focus of the CCPI
• Retirement funding for today’s
retirees and surviving spouses
• Help central conferences develop
self-sustaining pension plans
for their future
What Are the Central Conferences?
• Outside the U.S. 72 annual conferences organized into
seven central conferences
• Three continents: Africa
Europe
Asia
• 4.4 million members and growing!
• 8,900 active clergy
• 1,300 retirees
• 1,400 surviving spouses
Plan Development
• 13 pension plans
• Develop plans that are:
Self-funded
Self-governed
Self-sustaining into the future
Project Update
Plans started: • Liberia
• Mozambique
• Angola
• Sierra Leone
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Zimbabwe
• Russia
• Nigeria
Plans pending:
• Central and
Southern Europe
• Congo
• East Africa
• Estonia
• Philippines
CCBO Forum—Johannesburg September 2011
Sessions on: • Sustainability
• Accurate record-keeping
• Transparency
Project Update
Now providing funds to: • 492 retirees
• 645 surviving spouses
To date: • $23.5 pledged—$19.5 million received
• $1.55 million distributed from earnings
on donated funds
• Ongoing evaluations conducted
for each plan
U.S. CBO Role—Ways to Support
• Tithe from earnings
• Equivalent of Cokesbury check
• Gift of a specific amount
• Annual conference session
Special offering
CCPI presentation
• Invite us to your CBOP meeting