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'''Young America's Foundation''' "The Conservative Movement Starts Here" is a tax free group developed as an organization to promote the Conservative Movement. The Foundation introduces thousands of [[American]] youth to [[conservative]] principles. Young America’s Foundation began at Vanderbilt University in 1969 when a group of students started an organization called University Information Services. Ron Robinson is their current president. Their mission provides essential conferences, seminars, educational materials, internships and speakers to young people across the country. YAF's website contains news, resources, and information to enhance your own understanding of conservative ideas. "Walk in [[President Reagan]]’s Footsteps," visit their Reagan Ranch section and learn how Young America’s Foundation is preserving and protecting Ronald Reagan’s Western White House -Rancho del Cielo- in Santa Barbara, [[California]]. Visit their "National Journalism Center" section to find out more about how you can spend a semester in [[Washington, D.C.]], interning at a prominent media outlet. They have an extensive online video and podcast gallery where you can watch speeches and download audio podcasts from leading conservatives. Every year, Young America's Foundation ranks the top 10 conservative colleges.

'''Young America's Foundation''' is a 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values, with the motto of "The Conservative Movement Starts Here."

 

As the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement, the Foundation introduces thousands of American youth to these principles. YAF pursues its mission through conferences, seminars, educational materials and activism resources, internships, and a campus lecture program.

 

 

Young America's Foundation began at Vanderbilt University in 1969 when a group of students started an organization called University Information Services (UIS) to provide students with conservative ideas that were missing in their educations.

In 1971, UIS became a national organization and is renamed Young America's Foundation. The goal of bringing conservative speakers to campuses remained, but the Foundation launched a nationwide effort to share the Conservative Movement's greatest minds and voices with student audiences to provide intellectual balance.

Beginning in 1974, the Foundation expanded its activities by sponsoring a nationally syndicated radio program featuring California Governor [[Ronald Reagan]]. Foundation leaders Frank Donatelli and Ron Robinson also established the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] (CPAC).

In the summer of 1979, Young America's Foundation held its first annual National Conservative Student Conference (NCSC).

After taking office in 1981, [[President Reagan]] began the tradition of hosting Young America's Foundation's annual summer conference at the White House.

Young America's Foundation published in 1982 "American Economic Texts: A Free Market Critique," analyzing the array of economics principles being used colleges.

The Foundation made national headlines in 1983 when D.C. police arrested two summer conference attendees for protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan outside the Soviet Embassy. Young America's Foundation appealed the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court when, in 1988, the Court awarded the students a major First Amendment victory. The ruling in Boos v. Barry overturned a 50-year-old law barring protests outside of embassies.

In 1984, the Foundation sponsored a set of campus tours by two groups of overseas students. The first during the spring of 1984 featured two pro-Contra students from Nicaragua and Costa Rica who spoke on a dozen campuses in support of freedom fighters. That fall, a group of pro-Americans students from Europe spoke on campuses in support of NATO and the placement of Cruise and Pershing II missiles.

The Foundation published "Entrepreneurs vs. the State, A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America" by Dr. Burt Folsom in 1987. The book was later renamed "The Myth of the Robber Barons" and is currently in its sixth edition.

In 1989 Young America's Foundation reprinted "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater.

When campus leftists led by university faculty and administrators tried to force ROTC programs off campuses across the country in 1990, Young America's Foundation launched a national campaign to protect students' rights to participate in ROTC and have equal access to military recruiters on their campuses.  

 

 

 

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