The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief Year End Report -- 1975
Episcopal News Service. March 23, 1976 [76104]
Mrs. Howard O. Bingley
New York, N.Y. -- The year 1975 was unprecedented in the thirty-five -year history
of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief. With an awakening consciousness to the
urgency of the world hunger problem, Episcopalians made a spontaneous outpouring and
responded to the call of the Presiding Bishop and diocesan bishops to contribute to the
alleviation of human suffering around the world.
Total contributions from every U.S. diocese and 20 overseas jurisdictions during the
year amounted to $2,674,363.59. Added to this was the prior year's balance of $294,376.34
and interest accrued from short term investments in the amount of $59,747.05, making a
total of $3,028,486.98. In addition, the Board for the Presiding Bishop's Fund was assigned
responsibility for the allocation of a gift from the Diocese of Rochester comprising the
residual of a bequest in the amount of $911,000 (with interest accrued of $35,659.96).
No small part of the credit for this amazing response is due to the untiring and imaginative
efforts of World Relief Chairmen and their associates in the dioceses across the church. The
whole communication network to tell the story depends on the dioceses and parishes sharing
information and resources. We at the national level are most grateful.
The Board met four times during the year under the chairmanship of Presiding Bishop
John M. Allin and formed an Executive Committee authorized to make allocations between
meetings. Two-thirds of the contributions to the Fund in 1975 were designated for world
hunger, making possible allocations for direct feeding, food for work projects, agricultural
development, food production; irrigation, research, and longer range responses in both
Episcopal and Anglican-related areas and in ecumenical and community programs.
Guidelines developed by the Fund's Board call for allocation of 50% of the Fund's
resources to be used for rehabilitation and development projects which will attack the root
causes of hunger and poverty. In addition, 30% is to be used for crisis response and up to
10% for education and consciousness-raising among Church people, with the remaining
10% or less (only 5% in 1975) for administrative and promotional costs.
At the end of 1974 an Interprovincial Task Force on World Hunger was' formed by
resolution of the Executive Council. One effect of the Church-wide work instigated by the
Task Force (with expenses underwritten by the Presiding Bishop's Fund) was to stimulate
increased giving to the Fund. There has been continuous liaison between the Task Force
and the Fund.
In the spring of 1975, with the ending of the war in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of
refugees fled from Indochina. Many of them were airlifted to Government camps here in
the United States. The Refugee Resettlement office of the Presiding Bishop's Fund was kept
extraordinarily busy for about six months finding sponsors and ministering to special needs
of the refugees. The Fund sponsored a West Coast resettlement office centered in Los Angeles
to assist in this process. Through Church World Service, the Episcopal Church found homes
for 1,340 Indochina refugees; and countless others were resettled by parishes and individuals
working with other agencies. In addition, the Fund continued its ongoing 'work of finding
sponsors for refugees coming from Europe and the Middle East, bringing the total in
1975 to 1,917 persons.
The following persons served on the Board of Directors in 1975: The Rt. Rev. John M.
Burgess, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Richard H. Calland, Beloit, Wis.; the Rev. A. Theodore
Eastman, Washington, D.C.; Mr. George T. Guernsey III, St. Louis, Mo.; the Rt. Rev.
Willis R. Henton, Lubbock, Tex.; Mrs. Howard Hoover, Los Angeles; the Rev. Gerald
N. McAllister, San Antonio, Tex.; Miss Jane Ordway, Rochester, N.Y.; the Very Rev.
Dillard Robinson, Newark, N.J.; Mr. Curtis Roosevelt, New York; the Rev. Albert Sears,
Boston, Mass.; and the Rt. Rev. Furman C. Stough, Birmingham, Ala.
Grants: January 1975 - December 1975
Grants: October 1974 - September 1975| Episcopal Church, U.S.A. |
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| Alabama - Elderly food program, Birmingham | $2,500 |
| Angola emergency relief | 5,000 |
Arizona - Indian reservations and urban centers -
emergency food elderly feeding supplies:| Cocopah Tribal Council | 500 | | Colorado River Tribal Council | 6,300 | | Hualapai Tribal Council - elderly feeding | 6,200 | | Navajo Episcopal Council | 50,000 | | Papajo Tribe, Community Action Program |
1,000 | |
Phoenix Indian Center | 5,000 | | San Carlos Apache Tribal Council Reservation | 2,500 | | White Mountain Apache Tribe | 6,000 |
| |
| Caribbean (CADEC) Family Life Education | 3,000 |
| Central New York - emergency housing, Onondaga Reservation | 1,000 |
| * Costa Rica - San Carlos Farming project | 30,000 |
| El Salvador, Cuilapa project - Land purchase | 4,320 |
| Guatemala - purchase of eyeglasses for needy individuals
from prescriptions written by volunteer optometrists | 744.70 |
| Guam - Relief assistance for Indochina refugees | 2,000 |
Haiti - Drought relief| Agricultural development - purchase of property, Leogana | 100,000 | | Fisheries and land development, Montrouis & Arcahaie | 25,000 |
| 5,000 |
Honduras - * Christian Crafts Project, Puerto Cortes| Emergency food shipment - drought relief | 15,000 | | Powdered milk for drought relief | 12,709 | | Reconstruction following hurricane Fifi | 15,000 | | Water well, San Pedro Sula | 3,000 |
| 5,000 |
| Kentucky - Tornado rehabilitation | 17,500 |
| Lexington (Kentucky) - Flash flood relief | 2,000 |
| Los Angeles - West Coast coordinator, Indochina Refugee Resettlemt. | 17,855 |
| Minnesota/North Dakota - Flood relief, migrant workers | 600 |
| National Committee on Indian work, Legal aid, Arizona | 1,800 |
| Nicaragua - Earthquake rehabilitation | 65,000 |
| Nicaragua - Family orientation center | 3,000 |
| Northern Philippines - St. Mary's School, Sagada fire | 500 |
| Oklahoma - Tornado relief | 2,000 |
| Olympia - Vietnam American Association | 4,000 |
| Panama - Chilean refugee relief | 500 |
| Philippines - St. Andrew's Seminary - Bayanihan (agricultural
development) project | 12,457 |
| Puerto Rico - Hurricane relief | 2,500 |
| Puerto Rico - Ponce Agricultural development property purchase | 32,000 |
| Southern Ohio - Xenia tornado rehabilitation | 25,000 |
| Southern Philippines - relief needs | 825.85 |
| Southwestern Virginia - Amherst, Food for work | 6,000 |
| Southwestern Virginia - Lynchburg - Inner city after school program | 2,000 |
| U.S. Refugee welfare | 11,649.74 |
| Western Mexico - well and tractor for farm project | 13,500 |
| * from Rochester gift |
| Anglican Communion and Wider Episcopal Fellowship |
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| Australia - Darwin cyclone | $2,000 |
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| Brazil - Recife flood | 20,000 |
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| India (Diocese of Madras) - emergency food | 4,100 |
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| Lebanon - emergency relief | 4,000 |
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| Malawi - Anglican hospitals | 20,000 |
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| Nigeria (Diocese of Ibadan) - tornado | 2,000 |
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| Philippines - Joint Council Philippine Episcopal Church/
Philippine Independent Church, Agricultural
development | 20,000 |
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| Rwanda - Emergency food assistance | 3,000 |
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| Tanzania (Western Tanganyika Dio.)- Refugee center, Katumba | 7,000 |
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| Tanzania (Southwest Tanganyika.Dio)-Women's Training Center, Manda | 28,000 |
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| Zululand - Consultant-for Community development project | 10,175 |
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| Through the Commission on Interchurch Aid, Refugee and World Service (CICARWS,
World Council of Churches) and Division of Overseas Ministries, (National
Council of Churches), Church World Service and Agricultural Missions |
| CICARWS - base support | 102,850 |
Church World Service| Immigration & Refugee Program | 27,500 | | Material Resources Program | 37,500 | | Planned Parenthood Program | 10,000 | | Overseas Program | 65,000 | | Disaster relief | 10,000 |
| |
| Agricultural Missions | 63,000 |
| Leadership Development (Scholarships) | 9,000 |
| Africa drought | 98,500 |
| Bangladesh - food assistance & agricultural development | 81,000 |
| Brazil - Diaconia, for industrial sewing machines | 12,000 |
| Cambodia - Medical and emergency assistance | 500 |
| Canada - Repatriation assistance | 12,000 |
| Cape Verde Islands - drought relief | 5,000 |
| Chilean refugee assistance | 15,000 |
| Christian Conference of Asia - hunger priority | 2,000 |
| Cyprus - Refugee program (MECC) | 5,000 |
| Cyprus - Shoes for refugee children | 2,000 |
| Dominican Republic - All terrain vehicle | 3,500 |
| Dominican Republic - Pump, Montecristi | 2,500 |
| Dominican Republic - Water resources | 5,000 |
| Egypt - Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Service
Rural mobile team | 3,000 |
| El Salvador - CREDHO Rural legal aid | 4,978 |
Ethiopia - Cheshire school for physically handicapped| Mobile medical team | 15,000 | | Orthodox Church - urgent food needs | 5,000 | | Technical resources library | 1,500 |
| 3,000 |
| * Ghana (Northern) - Agricultural Extension work | 12,000 |
| Haiti - drought relief | 4,000 |
| Haiti - water resources | 5,000 |
| Haitian Refugee Center, Miami | 19,500 |
| Honduras - CEDEN - Rehabilitation from hurricane Fifi | $25,000 |
| India - famine relief and food for work | 153,000 |
| India - Agricultural development (AFPRO) | 3,750 |
| Indochina - Fund for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation | 80,000 |
| Indonesia - Development of human resources | 500 |
| Ireland (Northern) - Community development program | 2,000 |
| *Kenya - Maasai Rural Training Center | 15,000 |
| Laos - Refugee Resettlement | 12,000 |
| Lebanon - Emergency relief | 5,500 |
| Mauritius - Cyclone relief | 1,000 |
| Middle East - Palestine refugee program (MECC) | 27,500 |
| Namibia - Vocational training | 5,000 |
| Nicaragua - drought relief | 5,000 |
| Pakistan - relief of Biharis | 1,560 |
| Pakistan - Agricultural development, Jati | 5,000 |
| Peru - Andean agricultural development | 30,000 |
| Portugal - Angolan refugee relief | 4,000 |
| Roumania - flood relief | 7,000 |
| Somalia - famine relief | 2,000 |
| South Africa - Dependents' conference | 4,500 |
Sudan Emergency - development program| Rebuilding churches | 54,000 | | Flood relief | 4,000 | | Refugee relief | 2,500 |
| 71,000 |
| Syria - flood emergency | 2,500 |
| Tanzania - medical assistance | 1,000 |
| Turkey - Earthquake rehabilitation | 3,000 |
| Turkey - Rural development, Diyarbakir | 10,000 |
| Venezuela - Center for Communal Education, Barquisimente | 3,000 |
| Vietnam Christian Service | 15,000 |
| * from Rochester gift |
| Other Agencies |
| Africare - Water resources, Upper Volta | 64,467.61 |
| CODEL (Coordination in Development) - Membership & Project support | 47,000.00 |
| Heifer Project International - Membership & Project support | 10,000.00 |
| Interchurch Medical Assistance - Membership & shipping costs | 6,074.00 |
| International Social Service, Travelers Aid - Intercountry Adoption | 2,250.00 |
| Ohio - West Central Hunger Center - project support | 1,500 |
| Oxfam America - project support | 161.90 |
| Tchuba (Boston, Mass.) Cape Verde Islands drought relief | 5,000.00 |
| Technoserve, Inc. - Membership & project support | 6,000.00 |
| World Alliance, YMCA - refugee program | 4,000.00 |
| World Neighbors - project support | 70,000.00 |
| World YWCA - Leadership training | 6,000.00 |
| EDUCATION |
| *Ad Hoc Interprovincial Task Force - program costs | 78,077.59 |
| American Freedom from Hunger Foundation | 10.00 |
| Bread for the World - general support | 5,000.00 |
| Bread for the World - Support of Washington office | 5,000.00 |
| Interreligious Task Force on U.S. Food Policy | 6,500.00 |
| * P.B. Fund Development Consultation | 2,396.45 |
| * from Rochester gift |
| Administration 4 Promotion |
| Church World Service Administration | $30,000.00 |
| Church World Service Promotion | 5,000.00 |
| CICARWS (15%) | 18,150.00 |
| Promotion * | 30,629.80 |
| P.B. Fund Salaries | 30,497.42 |
| * in addition to 2 paid by general Church program budget |
