In 2008, AIER will celebrate its 75th year as a widely-recognized, authoritative source of economic information, stemming from our independent, proprietary research and publications.

As we look back and reflect on this anniversary, we are also looking ahead to assure that we can continue serving our Nation and its citizens efficiently and effectively in the years ahead. Toward this end, we took several significant steps this year to enhance our programs, better market our products and streamline our operations. Our goal was to maximize resources applied to our core mission: independent research and education.

Our programs have reflected this renewed focus on mission. Our 2007 Summer Fellowship featured an unprecedented breadth of expertise among our teachers and speakers. We have updated many of our most popular books and added important published works to our collection on such timely topics as immigration and globalization. By year’s end we will have produced and mailed nearly 5 million marketing circulars, 200,000 Economic Education Bulletin booklets and a quarter of a million Research Reports.

We do all of this with a lean, professional staff, and are dedicated to keeping costs to our customers down. While we are continually working to increase readership, more than two-thirds of our 2007 operating budget will still need to be met by charitable contributions. Because our independence is our most valuable asset, we do not accept gifts from private foundations, commercial interests, or the government. We depend, instead, solely on continued support from individual readers and friends, who understand the importance of the independent economic perspective we offer.

This support has allowed us to keep our products affordable to everyone, even while expanding our programs and absorbing years of creeping inflationary pressure. We offer several different ways for readers and friends to support our programs, including planned giving programs. You may use the boxes and buttons below to contribute now to our current funding appeals.