Students For Liberty

The following organizations participated in the 2008 Students For Liberty Conference Liberty Fair.

Acton Institute—The Mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles. Toward this end, Acton organizes seminars, conducts research and produces publications and films aimed at educating current and future religious leaders of all denominations, business executives, entrepreneurs, university professors, and academic researchers in economics principles, and in the connection that can exist between virtue and economic thinking.

Website: www.acton.org

Phone: 616.454.3080

Email: info@acton.org

Mail: Acton Institute, 161 Ottawa NW, Ste 301, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503

Atlas Economic Research Foundation—The mission of the Atlas Foundation is to discover, develop, and support intellectual entrepreneurs’ worldwide who can advance the Atlas vision of a society of free and responsible individuals.

Website: www.atlasusa.org

Phone: 703-934-6969

The Atlas Society— The Atlas Society researches and promotes Objectivism, the philosophy of reason, achievement, and liberty founded by Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. We hold annual Summer Seminars, create books and recordings, and publish a magazine: The New Individualist.

Website: www.atlassociety.org

Phone: 202-AYN-RAND

Email: tas@atlassociety.org

Ayn Rand Institute—The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) works to introduce young people to Ayn Rand’s novels, to support scholarship and research based on her ideas, and to promote the principles of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism to the widest possible audience.

Website: www.aynrand.org

Email: mail@aynrand.org

Bureaucrash—Bureaucrash is dedicated to fighting the increase of government control over our lives. Our international network of pro-freedom activists works to change the political ideology of our generation through creative activism. While most youth politics supports the growth of the already bloated government bureaucracy, we fight for freedom. Our activists are of all political persuasions united by the belief that sprawling governments and the bureaucrats and politicians who control them ought to be mocked. Mercilessly.

Website: www.bureaucrash.com

Email: hq@bureaucrash.com

Cato Institute—The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.

Websites: www.cato.org and www.catocampus.org

Phone: 202-789-5251

Email: jcoon@cato.org (Joey Coon, Manager of Student Programs)

Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation—The mission of the Foundation is to advance social progress and well-being through the development, application and dissemination of the Science of LibertyTM. Within that framework, the Koch Associate Program was established to identify up-and-coming leaders and entrepreneurs interested in liberty and help them develop the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for careers with market-oriented think tanks, policy institutes, and other non-profit organizations.

Website: www.cgkfoundation.org

Phone: 202-737-8028

Foundation for Economic Education—The Foundation for Economic Education — FEE — is a voice for individual liberty and responsibility, private property, free markets, constitutionally limited government and the rule of law.

Website: www.fee.org

Phone: 914-591-7230

Address: 30 S. Broadway Irvington NY 10533

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education—The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE’s core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.

Website: www.thefire.org

Phone: 215-717-3473

Address: 601 Walnut St, Suite 510, Philadelphia, PA 19106

The Fund for American Studies— TFAS has been educating young leaders on the values of freedom, democracy and free-market economies since 1967. Eleven Institutes around the world bring college students together for educational programs engaging them in a rigorous examination of economic concepts, political systems and moral philosophy. Our goal is to prepare young people for honorable leadership by educating them in the theory, practice and benefits of a free society.

Website: www.tfas.org

Phone: 202-986-0384

Address: 1706 New Hampshire Ave. NW Washington, DC 20009

Institute for Humane Studies—IHS is grounded in the principles of the classical liberal intellectual tradition, which include recognition of the dignity and worth of each individual and inalienable individual rights; protection of those rights through the institutions of individual private property, contract, and the rule of law and through freely evolved intermediary institutions; the ideal of voluntarism in human relations; and the goals of free trade, free migration, and peace. In pursuit of these goals, IHS promotes the study of liberty across a broad range of disciplines, encouraging understanding, open inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and creative problem solving.

Website: www.theihs.org

Email: ihs@gmu.edu

Mises Institute—The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. Working in the intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard, with a vast array of publications, programs, and fellowships, the Mises Institute seeks a radical shift in the intellectual climate as the foundation for a renewal of the free and prosperous commonwealth. In this cause, the Mises Institute defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

Website: www.mises.org

Email: info@mises.org

Students for a Free Economy—Students for a Free Economy (SFE) is a nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to promoting the benefits of free markets, civil society and individual liberty. SFE accomplishes this goal by establishing a presence at colleges and universities, providing resources and materials, developing future leaders in the free-market movement and acting as a network for students to connect with like-minded peers, faculty, mentors and entrepreneurs who share their passion for a free economy and society.

Website: www.michigansfe.org

Email: morehouse@mackinac.org

Address: 14000 S. 38th St., Vicksburg, MI 49097

Students for Saving Social Security—Students for Saving Social Security is a grassroots network on college campuses across the country. We represent the interests of our generation by advocating for genuine Social Security reform through personal ownership. It has become obvious that the controversy over the future of Social Security lacks balance: the opinions and welfare of young Americans have been relegated to the fringe of the debate. As college students, we are preparing to enter the workplace as contributors to the Social Security program. Our very first paychecks will be taxed for a system that cannot fulfill its promises to us. This is not merely a distant crisis concerning retirement benefits. The immediacy of the problem for our generation is pressing: Social Security reform affects us now. On Social Security reform hinge numerous issues of vital and immediate importance to us: the ability of employers to hire us as we graduate, the opportunity to save for our future, and economic growth and prosperity in the years ahead. Students for Saving Social Security will lead the charge to inform, organize, and mobilize today’s college students to engage in the Social Security debate. Through honest, non-partisan debate we hope to represent the interests of young Americans. We want politicians to understand that an entire generation of voters can be won – or lost – on an issue with lasting implications for our future.

Website: www.SecureOurFuture.org

Phone: 530-524-2645 (Evan Dent)

Email: Evan@secureourfuture.org (Evan Dent)

Tax Foundation—The Tax Foundation is a non-profit research organization founded in 1937 to educate taxpayers about sound tax policy. We calculate “Tax Freedom Day” each year (the day Americans have paid their taxes for the year), disseminate information and analysis on taxes, and promote tax systems that are simple, fair, and conducive to economic growth.

Website: www.taxfoundation.org

Email: henchman@taxfoundation.org (Joseph Henchman, Tax Counsel)

Address: 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 1050, Washington, DC 20035