SFL has just completed two reports summarizing our successes over the past semester: the 2009 SFL Regional Conferences Report as well as 2009-2010 Midyear SFL Report. And what a semester it has been! In just a few months, SFL has:
- Grown the SFL Group Network to more than double, going from 109 student groups to 250+ pro-liberty student groups around the world!
- Hosted 7 Regional Conferences around the US with 7111 unique participants from 201 schools;
- Helped form 2 new coalitions of pro-liberty student groups: New York Liberty Alliance and the Chicago Forum for Freedom, bringing the total number of coalitions to 5;
- Founded Alumni For Liberty, a project of SFL that serves as both an alumni association for SFL members and network for individuals who graduated before SFL’s founding to stay involved in the student movement for liberty;
- Developed a Speakers Network for students to invite both national and local leaders of liberty to speak to their student group;
- Hosted 2 Student Action Events (here and here) to provide students with resources and a common event to host on their campuses;
- Had 300+ students participate in the SFL E-Leadership Series to learn about the intellectual foundations of liberty and effective strategies for promoting liberty on campus;
- Launched a new Student Protests Grant program in conjunction with Bureaucrash to provide financial and strategic support for student activism dedicated to liberty;
- Began a new Op-Ed project to assist students in writing Op-Eds related to the timely health care debate in favor of freedom (see Liya Palagashvili’s Op-Ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer);
- Helped send 30 students to the State Policy Network annual conference to learn about strategies for promoting liberty at the state level.
Check out the 2009 SFL Regional Conferences Report as well as 2009-2010 Midyear SFL Report (both are also now available at www.studentsforliberty.org/support/ to see the full details on what has been accomplished. There is no better time to be a student for liberty and while the present is beset on all sides by the threat of statism, the future of liberty looks brighter than ever.
If you support the work SFL is doing to promote liberty and develop the next generation of leaders of liberty, please consider making a contribution of $100, $50, or $25 to our Give the Gift of Liberty fundraising drive. Every donation helps introduce more students to liberty and provide the tools for more students to lead the cause of liberty not only in the future, but today as well.
