How can I visit the Reagan Ranch? Q. I am a student and would like to know how Young America’s Foundation can help me promote conservatism?
Young America’s Foundation specializes in helping young people advance conservative ideas at their schools.
We can help you sponsor the stars of the Conservative Movement such as Ann Coulter, Ben Stein, George Allen, Michelle Malkin and many others.
Young America’s Foundation has two resources that will provide you with the ideas and information you need to make a difference at your school. The Conservative Guide to Campus Activism provides revolutionary ideas and information on how you can advance conservative ideas and challenge the leftist orthodoxy. This guide gives you information on how to start and build a campus organization, effectively promote your organization and club, avoid activist traps, and debate and defeat your opponents. The guide also includes exclusive advice from Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, Bay Buchanan, Dinesh D’Souza, and many more!
Also, be sure to pick up a copy of the 2008-2009 Campus Conservative Battleplan. This publication provides you with specific ideas and activities that your group can organize throughout the school year. For example, you will learn how to organize an American flag memorial in conjunction with the Foundation’s 9/11: Never Forget Project, and how to organize activities supporting our troops as part of Freedom Week in November. Finally, Foundation team has decades of experience with campus activism. If you ever need advice or have questions about anything related to promoting conservatism at your school, don't overlook contacting our team of experts.
If you are interested in becoming more closely involved with the Foundation, you can join our activist rewards program, Club 100 – Rewarding Conservative Activism. Club 100 is the first and only program that awards you for promoting conservative ideas on campus.
The Conservative Guide to Campus Activism does offer two chapters on how to start and build a conservative student group. Our team can give you unique advice and strategies on how to launch your group.
College students may attend our National Conservative Student Conference, which brings together more than forty of the Conservative Movement’s biggest leaders and activists who give our students a better understanding of conservatism and its principles.
High school students can take advantage of the National High School Leadership Conference and the Reagan Ranch High School Conference. These are the only programs of its kind that brings conservatives leaders in front of a high school audience.
Both high school and college students may attend our West Coast Leadership Conference held every fall in Santa Barbara, California. Young America’s Foundation’s schedules numerous seminars at the Reagan Ranch Center which educate young people on conservative ideas.. Check the Foundation’s site for updates.
Q. Can you recommend a conservative college? We are glad you asked! We receive many requests each year to aid students and their parents in their college search. As a result, we launched our "Top Ten Conservative Colleges" list. However, if none of our recommendations interest you, follow these guidelines to avoid enrolling in a left-leaning school.
First, review the course catalogs for any schools you’re considering.
Next, find out how many bizarre or politically correct courses are required for graduation. Reviewing a school’s course catalog will partly reveal what kind of education you will be receiving. Also be sure to research what type of speakers have been invited to speak on the campus.
Third, talk to people in your community, church, or other social groups about schools with which they have knowledge and experience. When parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and others start talking, you're bound to come up with some schools you may have never even considered! From there, you can begin further research on your own.
Q. What is the National Journalism Center? The National Journalism Center (NJC) is an unusual venture in journalism education: Devoted to accuracy, balance, and comprehension of the issues, NJC has trained scores of students every year for over a quarter of a century in the skills of press work and assigned them internships at cooperating media locations.
Instead of giving traditional internships, Young America's Foundation offers students the opportunity to participate in the Sarah T. Hermann Intern Scholars Program in our northern Virginia office and at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, CA. Interns are paid, and we encourage them to receive course credit if possible.
Since the needs of each student vary, we do not offer housing as part of the program. You will need to make your own living arrangements, although we will be happy to suggest apartments in the Washington, D.C. area. Young America's Foundation is not Metro accessible, so you will need to have access to a car.
Please visit this page for more information. http://yaf.org/students/activists/resources/internships.cfm
Young America's Foundation is an educational organization that sponsors speakers on campus and in the community, provides activist resources and materials, holds conferences and seminars, and saved the Reagan Ranch. As an educational foundation, it engages in non-partisan and non-political activities; all contributions are completely tax deductible.
Young Americans for Freedom, on the other hand, engages in more activist programs such as political training and programs and more partisan activities such as demonstrations and conventions. As such, contributions to Young Americans for Freedom are not tax deductible.Young America's Foundation's leadership includes individuals who were or are active in Young Americans for Freedom including one chairman and three national executive directors. If you want your support to be tax deductible, you should support Young America’s Foundation.
Q. How can I donate to Young America's Foundation?
Advancing your conservative ideas through a gift to Young America’s Foundation is simple and secure. You can do so:
1.) By Check – Please make all checks payable to Young America's Foundation and mail to:
Young America's Foundation F.M. Kirby Freedom Center 110 Elden Street Herndon, Virginia 20170
2.) By Credit Card – Young America's Foundation accepts all major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. To make a gift by credit card, please click here to make a secure online donation or call us at 800-USA-1776.
3.) Over the Phone – We gladly accept gifts over the phone. If you are interested in making such a gift, please call 800-USA-1776 and a Foundation leader will be glad to assist you.
Q. How can I visit the Reagan Ranch? Young America's Foundation saved the Reagan Ranch in 1998. Our primary goal with the Ranch is to use it to inspire the next generation of conservative leaders for our country.
The Reagan Ranch is one component of the Foundation 's broader mission to "ensure that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of limited government, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and traditional values." In addition to the many students who visit the Ranch through the Foundation's programs, Young America's Foundation also seeks to host as many leaders of the Conservative Movement, media, authors, and scholars as possible. Supporters of Young America's Foundation are also invited to visit the Reagan Ranch. Visits like this are normally reserved for our President's Club members which you become a member of by giving a tax deductible gift of $1,000 or more. President's Club members also have their names engraved on Freedom Wall, which you will see during your Ranch visit. For more information on visiting the Reagan Ranch, please complete this form.
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