An Invitation: Call for a Fossil Fuel Free Pension Boards UCC Option.
An invitation to join the PRAISED! movement from the Rev. Dr. Jim Antal.
Dear UCC Colleague - and fellow investor in the Pension Boards Investment Program:
Grace and peace to you!
I urge you to respond to this important invitation to express your conscience by joining the PRAISED! movement (Pastors’ Retirement Assets Invested to Sustain Earth – Divest!). (If you’re coming to Synod, ask for and wear this sticker!)
Two years ago our General Synod voted to divest from fossil fuel companies. Our witness has helped to inspire hundreds of institutions around the world to do likewise. And thanks be to God for our United Church Funds! UCF took only 16 months to provide our churches and related institutions with a first-of-its-kind Beyond Fossil Fuel Fund, and I urge your church to utilize this investment opportunity.
If you are an investor in the Pension Boards Investment Program, as I am, and if you share the moral urgency I feel about our planet’s climate, then I hope you will accept this invitation.
I’m inviting you to join me in helping the Pension Boards create a new fund that would mimic UCF’s Beyond Fossil Fuel Fund. We can help by pledging to transfer some amount of our Pension Boards investments to such a fund if and when it is created. By inviting, collecting and aggregating the pledges from scores -- and I hope hundreds -- of investors in the PBUCC, we will be able to demonstrate the viability of a fossil fuel free fund option for Pension Board investors.
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Email a completed copy of the simple table to divest@macucc.org.
Retirees already receiving their annuity should not respond to this invitation.
Share this invitation with your UCC colleagues.
WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH YOUR RESPONSE:
Your information will be entered on a spreadsheet. The aggregate total number of responses and the total amount of pledged will be made widely available. The only person that the spreadsheet will be shared with will be the incoming CEO of the Pension Board UCC, Inc.
I’m pledging to transfer $100,000 into a fossil fuel free fund if and when the PBUCC gives me that option. Please join me. Copy and paste this table into an email, complete the 6 blank cells in the table, and send to divest@macucc.org.
Grace and peace to you!
I urge you to respond to this important invitation to express your conscience by joining the PRAISED! movement (Pastors’ Retirement Assets Invested to Sustain Earth – Divest!). (If you’re coming to Synod, ask for and wear this sticker!)
Two years ago our General Synod voted to divest from fossil fuel companies. Our witness has helped to inspire hundreds of institutions around the world to do likewise. And thanks be to God for our United Church Funds! UCF took only 16 months to provide our churches and related institutions with a first-of-its-kind Beyond Fossil Fuel Fund, and I urge your church to utilize this investment opportunity.
If you are an investor in the Pension Boards Investment Program, as I am, and if you share the moral urgency I feel about our planet’s climate, then I hope you will accept this invitation.
I’m inviting you to join me in helping the Pension Boards create a new fund that would mimic UCF’s Beyond Fossil Fuel Fund. We can help by pledging to transfer some amount of our Pension Boards investments to such a fund if and when it is created. By inviting, collecting and aggregating the pledges from scores -- and I hope hundreds -- of investors in the PBUCC, we will be able to demonstrate the viability of a fossil fuel free fund option for Pension Board investors.
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Email a completed copy of the simple table to divest@macucc.org.
Retirees already receiving their annuity should not respond to this invitation.
Share this invitation with your UCC colleagues.
WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH YOUR RESPONSE:
Your information will be entered on a spreadsheet. The aggregate total number of responses and the total amount of pledged will be made widely available. The only person that the spreadsheet will be shared with will be the incoming CEO of the Pension Board UCC, Inc.
I’m pledging to transfer $100,000 into a fossil fuel free fund if and when the PBUCC gives me that option. Please join me. Copy and paste this table into an email, complete the 6 blank cells in the table, and send to divest@macucc.org.
| FIRST NAME: | LAST NAME: | CONFERENCE: | ASSOCIATION OF STANDING (if applicable): | CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE CURRENTLY AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN THE PENSION BOARDS INVESTMENT PROGRAM BY WRITING “YES”: | AMOUNT YOU WOULD TRANSFER TO A PENSION BOARDS FOSSIL FUEL FREE FUND (must not exceed your current total investments): |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
REMEMBER:
Complete the simple table above.
Retirees already receiving their annuity should not respond to this invitation.
Share this invitation with your UCC colleagues.
Questions may be emailed to: divest@macucc.org.
Jim
The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, Minister and President
Massachusetts Conference UCC, www.MACUCC.org
Complete the simple table above.
Retirees already receiving their annuity should not respond to this invitation.
Share this invitation with your UCC colleagues.
Questions may be emailed to: divest@macucc.org.
Jim
The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, Minister and President
Massachusetts Conference UCC, www.MACUCC.org
