SFL publications provide authoritative analysis on best practices for running student organizations dedicated to liberty. These publications are the product of aggregating information and data on how students run organizations for liberty around the U.S. By compiling comprehensive accounts of how to effectively organize students, these handbooks will help transfer knowledge between individuals for the common cause of liberty.
Available Publications
How to Start a Student Organization for Liberty
This handbook provides a simple, 10-step process to starting an organization dedicated to liberty. Feel free to share it with friends who want to start an organization for liberty, as well as visit http://studentsforliberty.org/start-a-student-group/.
Strategic Action Plan
A strategic action plan is crucial to building a lasting organization. Your student group will have a much more productive year, and you can cut down plenty of stress for yourself, if you take the time to develop a strategic action plan.
Libertarian Campus Calendar
The Libertarian Campus Calendar is a template for student organizations to follow during the academic year. It provides a list of important historical events in the cause of liberty and suggestions for activities that organizations can hold each month.
Leadership Transition Handbook
As an officer, it is not enough to build and run a good organization; one of your missions should be to leave your organization in the hands of students that will continue to build on your accomplishments. This handbook will help make sure that your student organization continues to thrive after you graduate.
Sample Executive Board Handbook
One of the most effective means of transitioning leadership is to produce and pass down an Executive Board Handbook that provides pertinent information to the new Executive Board about how to run the organization. Check out SFL’s Sample Executive Board Handbook as an example of what you can produce.
Student Protests Handbook
This handbook provides a 5 step plan for hosting a student protest for liberty as well as many tips and insights to make sure that your protest for liberty is successful! If you plan to host a student protest for liberty, be sure to apply for a Student Protest Grant. Even if you do not receive financial support for your protest, we will work to help provide you with non-monetary resources and support.
Successful Speaking Event Handbook
This handbook will walk you through the process of bringing a speaker to your campus. Follow the steps outlined, and you’re certain to make an impact!
College Students: the Future & the Present
SFL’s Executive Director, Alexander McCobin, wrote “College Students: the Future & the Present” for the State Policy Network’s 2009 January/February Newsletter. The article covers the importance of state-based think tanks supporting students, how think tanks can identify students, and the best ways think tanks can help students. PDF version here (on page 3). HTML version here.
Successful Tabling
This guide goes over some techniques for improving your on-campus tabling. It is designed to help you attract students to your table as well as hold meaningful conversations with those who come to your table. If you plan on tabling for liberty this guide is for you. It works great with the supplies you get from The Operation:Politically Homeless Kit as well as The Students For Liberty Tabling Kit.
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Hi, I currently am the president of the Liberate Students from the Tyranny of the Free Market. We currently help students who are shackled at the ankles by tyrannical private health care costs, private banking fees, and most of all, we help students who feel oppressed by the tyranny of individualism and have lost hope in the kindness of one another. We operate completely without government assistance, as we don't like big brother- whether it's a tyrannical big government or the big corporation. big is bad. small is good- it's human sized after all, something we can handle and feel free about.
I am super excited to have found your guys' organization as we are thinking of expanding our operations, but definitely could use some coalition support of liberty-minded groups. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the sign up button anywhere, so I was wondering where do we sign up?