2013-2014 SFL Annual Report 1 | Page 11

What SFL Does Students For Liberty’s goal is to create a freer world. Our strategy to effect change is to grow the student movement for liberty as much as possible to grow the liberty movement at large. What it means to grow such a movement means a lot of things. It means helping get as many people to embrace pro-liberty positions as possible by both identifying libertarians when they are young to keep them involved and introducing the ideas of liberty to those who are initially apathetic or hostile towards them. It means starting and supporting groups, both on and off campuses. And it means helping to ensure that activities are taking place to promote the ideas of liberty to more people. What this actually means in terms of SFL’s programming can be broken down into 5 categories: Leadership Training Resources SFL offers in-depth leadership training programs to help students at all levels, from freshmen who are learning about libertarianism for the first time to seniors who have run their campus group for 2 years, become more effective advocates of liberty. SFL provides hundreds of thousands of resources each year to help students organize activities to spread the philosophy of liberty on campuses. Events SFL helps leaders of liberty build communication skills and get placed with various media outlets to impact the public discourse. SFL organizes events around the world that bring proliberty students together to become more involved in the cause of liberty, from small, 12-person roundtable discussions on the meaning of Austrian Economics, to 30 person Leadership Forums on how to more effectively run a student group, to 300 person conferences that serve as a joint lecture hall, debate forum, strategy room, and pep rally. Young Voices Alumni Support SFL helps keep alumni involved in the liberty movement by having them join the Alumni For Liberty network where they not only receive updates on the growth of the student movement for liberty, but also opportunities to stay connected with other pro-liberty alumni and access resources to promote the ideas of liberty in their areas. 11 ...