Cranes Club Launch Event Summary

We hope you have had a good start to the year and we’re happy to share a summary of our first Crane’s Club Conference after last year’s initial launch event in Austria with True Mother. This first conference has been an important starting point and a number of key decisions were taken by the representatives present. We hope that through its success we can make this an inspiring and useful club to its members.

Summary of First Cranes Club Conference

The conference was held in Bad-Camberg, Germany from January 8th – 10th. We had a tightly packed 2- day schedule with the opening on Friday evening and departures on Sunday midday. One main goal of the conference was to discuss and agree upon a formalised working structure for the Cranes Club and its members. We had a number of proposals put forward before and during the conference and over the course of the 2 days they were refined and finally voted on. Also there were a number of networking sessions and speeches given by various specialists from different fields ranging from entrepreneurs to doctors to board executives.

We had a total of 60 participants at the conference, and on the last day we held an Annual General Meeting (AGM) to make official decisions on the future of the Cranes Club. It was decided for this initial year to not form a legal entity, but instead take a project based approach, with each project having a Project Manager responsible for ensuring that the project gets completed. There would also be one General Manager to oversee the project managers, handle the general admin and finances, and also manage the relationship with FFWPU. In addition to the structure and projects, the membership criteria was also discussed and voted upon. The decisions made will be in effect for the upcoming year but will of course be open to improvement and development; with the next voting to take place at the next AGM. The final outcome of the voting can be seen at the end of this email.

More details about each project will be communicated as they develop, and we hope that these initiatives prove to be very valuable for every Cranes Club Member. The current benefits for Cranes Club members will be:

1. Access to the mentoring program and member database currently being developed

2. Strong network of young professionals

3. Right to vote in the 2017 AGM to decide the direction and future of the Cranes Club Europe

Quarterly newsletter with industry specific updates, job openings, and announcement for members

For 2016, the membership fee will be 20 Euros, adjusted for PPP (based on German 20 Euros). To sign up to be a Cranes Club member please fill out this form, which also lists the exact membership fee per country. Membership fees can be payed by paypal to cranesclubeurope@ gmail.com. If you prefer to not pay by paypal, then we will have a bank account set up in the coming months that you can transfer your fee directly to, or alternately you can pay in person at the next Cranes Club event.

Thank you for your continued interest and support for the Cranes Club. We have already had lots of people wishing to volunteer and our project managers will be in contact in the coming weeks.. Please email us if you would like to get involved at cranesclubeurope@gmail.com.

Ely Loew Cranes Club General Manager

AGM Key Outcomes

Structure & Projects:

1) Ely Loew voted as the General Manager of the Cranes Club for its first year.

The club voted to run on the following projects and project managers:

2) The club will run a mentoring project with Michael Rawlence as project manager.

3) The club will organize an annual conference and AGM with Bogdan Pammer as project manager.

4) The club will organize an online skills database service with Sammi Vanderstok as project manager.

5) The club will organize a conference on health and medicine with Felix Janssen and Dieter Schmidt as project managers.

6) The club will work on a draft of an ethics code with Hi-Seung D’Alberti as project manager. (Position filled after AGM)

Membership Criteria:

Every person, who has a profession, or is in higher education striving for a defined profession, can be a Cranes Club member and who in written form agrees to:

Strive through his profession to better serve their communities and the greater society, in accordance with Unification principles.

Agrees to contribute to the Cranes Club through the yearly membership fee

There is no age requirement, although the Cranes Club specifically targets members of the ages of 22 to 40 with Unificationist background.

The yearly membership fee is €20 (PPP), based on Germany’s €20 (PPP)

(A list of all countries fees can be found in the sign-up form.)

Finances and Accounting:

Below is a summary of the events finances:

Total Event Income: €4,450.00 Total Event Expenses: €3,708.50 Total Event Profit: €741.50 Membership Fees Collected (12 members): €261.00 Donations Collected: €189.50 Total Balance: €1,226.44