32nd Annual TFAS Journalism Forum + Awards Dinner

Please save the date for the 32nd Annual TFAS Journalism Forum + Awards Dinner in New York City. Your support enables TFAS to develop the next generation of excellent journalists while honoring today’s leaders who are paving the way.

Developing Courageous Leaders Since 1967

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The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) is an educational nonprofit that is developing courageous leaders inspired and equipped to protect and advance the ideas of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic freedom in their communities and throughout the world.

By offering a portfolio of more than 30 academic programs, fellowships and seminars, the TFAS Journey helps cultivate future leaders from high school, all the way through to their university studies and professional careers.

TFAS builds the intellectual rigor and sustained relationships over time that result in deep impact and long-term change. After more than 50 years of programs, the evidence of TFAS’s success is clear. TFAS alumni are the leaders our nation needs right now and in the decades to come.

Today, there are nearly 53,000 TFAS alumni making a difference in their communities and throughout the world by upholding the values essential to the preservation and success of a free society.

Liberty + Leadership Podcast Latest Episode

TFAS President Roger Ream and TFAS Campus Transparency Fellows Ben Rothove and Elsa Johnson discuss restoring honesty on campus.

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The Latest at TFAS

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Would Mamdani’s city-owned grocery stores work? Ask some that tried, by Anne Bradley, The Washington Post

This op-ed by Dr. Anne Bradley, TFAS vice president of academic affairs, originally appeared in the online and print editions of The Washington Post. You can find the original article here. In September 1989, two years before he would be elected president…

From Mises to Modern Day: TFAS Alumni Engage with the Ideas That Shape a Free Society

From Sept. 26-28, The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) hosted its inaugural Austrian Economics Seminar in Old Town, Alexandria. The intensive weekend immersed select young TFAS alumni leaders in the ideas of the Austrian school of economics and its relevance…

TFAS Welcomes 2025-26 Woodhouse Public Policy Fellows

The Fund for American Studies is pleased to welcome the recipients of the 2025-26 Woodhouse Public Policy Fellowship.
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TFAS Events

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TFAS Annual Conference: Developing Courageous Citizens

America’s upcoming 250th birthday provides a special opportunity to examine how we as a nation teach the American Founding. Unfortunately, the Founders’ own narrative about what America is and means has been purposefully eroded in our culture and classrooms,…
 
 

LIVE. LEARN. INTERN. in Washington, DC!

TFAS programs include academic credit from George Mason University, an internship placement and furnished housing in the heart of Washington, D.C. Students participate in a variety of exclusive guest lectures, site briefings as well as professional development and networking events.

TFAS students leave Washington with 250+ hours of professional experience, an expanded network of contacts, and a greater understanding of the variety of career opportunities.