2013-2014 SFL Annual Report 1 | Page 14

SFL Annual Report 2013-2014 Events Events are not just educational opportunities for students. They are life-changing experiences for students to realize they are not the only advocates of liberty out there, to form friendships, to hold informal conversations about new ways to advance liberty, and to broaden their perspective of the liberty movement. Conferences Leadership Forums As SFL’s bread and butter events, SFL Conferences expose new students to the ideas of liberty, give more experienced students the opportunity to practice their leadership, and reinforce the community ties of the student movement for liberty. SFL Conferences range in size from 70 to 1,300 attendees, but each one serves as a combination lecture hall, debate forum, strategy room, and pep rally to give young advocates of liberty the educational tools and energy they need to bring back to their campuses to promote the philosophy of freedom. SFL Leadership Forums are one-day events for 1530 students who are leaders or future leaders of their campus organization to come together and share best practices for student organizing. These days are opportunities for students to have meaningful conversations with their fellow students about how to build their groups and their campus activities. In total, SFL ran 37 Conferences for 7,350 attendees in 2013-2014. in 2013-2014 .......... Conferences Attendees 14 ... SFL partnered with Liberty Fund to run 4 Symposia (3 in the US and 1 in Europe) this past year where small groups of 15 students gathered together for weekend-long discussions on topics like the “Institutions of Liberty,” “Hayek & Keynes on Human Nature and Society,” and “Nozick on Liberty, Legitimacy, and Property.” These educational forums are unparalleled opportunities for students to explore the foundations of a free society in a friendly, thoughtprovoking environment. SFL + Liberty Fund Symposia 3 1 .................... for .................... 37 7,350 In total, SFL ran Liberty Fund Symposia 2014 ISFLC Attendees 1,275