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Resolution Number: 2000-D102
Title: Urge CPF to Develop Investment Policies in Keeping with the Jubilee Year
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 73rd Convention urge the Church Pension Fund Board to develop policies consonant with the celebration of the Jubilee Year of Justice:

1)Continue the development and implementation of a socially responsible screen to guide the development of an investment portfolio that conforms to the positions taken by the conventions of the Episcopal Church (e.g., tobacco, firearms, environmental concerns, and treatment of employees).
2)Explore dedicating a small percentage of the assets of the Pension Fund (e.g., 5%) to investments which achieve the economic development of lower income people in rural and urban neighborhoods both in this country and in developing nations.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 583.