AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM
6 Hutton Centre Drive 600, Santa Ana, CA 92707 www.aynrand.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To foster a growing awareness, understanding and acceptance of Ayn Rand's revolutionary philosophy, objectivism, in order to create a culture whose guiding principles are reason, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism, a culture in which individuals are free to pursue their own happiness.

To increase readership and understanding of Ayn Rand's works and to find and train the new intellectuals to teach her philosophy of objectivism.

Outreach Programs: Promoted the book of an in-house author whose book applies Ayn Rands ideas. Arranged for 68 public and private speaking events including debates, talks and panel discussions in the US. Held two conferences in Brazil and Latin America for over 290 attendees, sending 5 ARI intellectuals for talks and panel discussions. Recorded talks uploaded to YouTube resulted in approximately 450,000 subscribers. Additional events on Facebook Live exceeded views. Offered 55 episodes on ARI LIVE! podcasts. ARI speakers were interviewed on international, national and local radio and TV shows (traditional and internet), and hosted and appeared on various podcasts. Op-eds and articles by ARI authors were published in print and online publications around the world.

Educational Programs: Coordinated the donation of more than 150,000 free copies of Ayn Rands books to high school and middle school teachers and students. Held three essay contests on Ayn Rands novels, which drew more than 15,000 entries. Hosted 12 students and recent graduates in a 8 weeks seasonal internship program that provided educational programming and professional experience. Distributed more than 5,000 books to young people through free market organizations and professors. Organized the fall conference for more than 128 students, in Atlanta, GA and brought 78 students to the ARI summer conference in Cleveland, OH for classes and networking. The Objectivist Academic Center (OAC) launched a new three-year distance learning program to replace its one-year Core Course, admitting 50 students in fall 2019; it also offered advanced seminars in philosophy to 12 students and sponsored the advising of 4 graduate students by tenured or tenure-track professors in their fields. ARI Campus launched a new and improved mobile application and continued to offer online courses from beginner to advanced levels on Ayn Rands fiction works and on her philosophy and its application, adding 50 new campus courses. The courses and other content are free and open to anyone interested in Ayn Rands ideas. Over 29,000 individuals accessed courses or downloaded audio content during the year, and course content was used by over 100 high school classroom teachers.

Other: The Ayn Rand Archives digitized a large amount of analog audio (primarily cassette tapes), conducted 40 hours of oral history interviews on the Objectivist movement, and assisted 12 outside researchers who examined materials both in person and online. We also continued correcting errors in the keyword-searchable version of the Ayn Rand Papers. The ARI eStore (estore.aynrand.com) continued to publish and sell hundreds of downloadable recordings on Objectivism and related topics. Objectivist Summer Conference 2019 was held in Cleveland, OH with 458 people in attendance.

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