Jason Barbour is a vice president and the director of development at Young America’s Foundation. In this executive leadership role, Jason leads the organization’s national fundraising program, helping individuals achieve their philanthropic goals of conveying the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values to our nation’s young people (middle school, high school, and college). 

In 2000, Jason joined Young America’s Foundation’s leadership team as the director of donor relations at the Foundation’s National Headquarters in Virginia. After a year of coordinating events and visiting supporters around the country, Jason transferred to Santa Barbara, California, to serve at the Reagan Ranch as the national director of development of Young America’s Foundation. 

For over two decades, Jason has hosted hundreds of supporters for private visits to the Reagan Ranch and worked closely on the acquisition and development of the Reagan Ranch Center.  He has planned successful Reagan Ranch Getaway Weekends, President’s Club Weekends, and Rawhide Circle Retreats at historic locations such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill, Winston Churchill’s Chartwell, and Ronald Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo.

Jason is an alumnus of YAF’s 1994 National Conservative Student Conference and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During college, YAF helped his conservative club bring a conservative speaker to campus. 

Prior to joining Young America’s Foundation, Jason served as the director of donor relations at the Leadership Institute.