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Causes: Education
Mission: The academy is a not-for-profit corporation that supports scholarly research and teaching about the authors and ideas of free markets, entrepreneurship, individual rights, individual responsibility, limited government and peace. The aclg foundation is overseen by a board of directors providing grants for programs, research and activities at the university of illinois. The academy on capitalism was created to support programs that teach students (future voters and leaders) the ideas, institutions and policies that made america a successful capitalist country. At the heart of these efforts is creating a systematic program in liberty studies to provide students a well-rounded interdisciplinary alternative to the anti-liberty narrative that dominates most of higher education today. The academy on capitalism and limited government foundation is not a unit of the university of illinois, rather is a supporting organization to the university of illinois foundation providing philanthropic inves
Programs: Liberty studies course development in colaboration with the university of illinois program services underwritten by aclg fdn and uofi foundation contributions.
university of illinois foundation funds for support of aclg funded program activities at the university of illinois.
algc funded support for teaching, research, and career development of university of illinois hayek post-doctoral fellows in university of illinois liberty studies.
aclg fund for the university of illinois foundation to fund the eighth annual fall symposium at the university of illinois on "free market environentalism". Two public lectures, course visits, and faculty and student meetings with stanford economist dr terry anderson.