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$1 Million Matching Fund for the Free Books Project Volume 11, Number 11, November 2005 Schwartz’s Tenure $1 Million Matching Fund for on ARI Board the Free Books Project Comes to a Close or a limited time ARI donors can support the sponsorship was Lin Zinser. Ms. Zinser runs an Statement from Peter Schwartz FFree Books to Teachers project at half the Objectivism study group that occasionally brings normal cost. This opportunity has been made in Objectivist intellectuals to give supper talks in fter nineteen possible by the $1 million gift (announced in the Denver, Colorado. “Ayears on the August issue of Impact) that was donated to help When Ms. Zinser initiated the joint sponsor- Board of Directors, I have fund the Institute’s Free Books project. The gift ship, part of the state had already been sponsored decided to resign. ARI has will be used as a matching fund: for example, if so she set herself the goal of raising the $11,000 grown enormously since supplying books to a given city costs $10,000 necessary to cover the rest of Colorado. That goal its inception, and I’ve and an ARI donor can contribute $5,000, the fund was achieved in about seven weeks. ARI applauds enjoyed my role in that will match that amount dollar-for-dollar. This Ms. Zinser (and her co-contributors) for helping to progress. I want to offer opportunity will be available until the $1 million bring Ayn Rand’s books to Colorado schools. my gratitude to my fellow gift has been fully allocated. Several years ago a group of Impact readers in board members, the ARI The matching fund is open only to new spon- Texas likewise pooled their resources in order to staff and our donors for sors of the Books project; if you have already fund the Free Books to Teachers project in Houston. all their efforts in making the Institute a success. sponsored the Books project you can use the fund If you would like to sponsor a region but are I will continue to work with and for the Institute to help sponsor any new areas you wish to add to unable to cover the entire cost, ARI encourages on a range of projects. I plan to be no less actively those areas you are already sponsoring. you to consider a joint sponsorship. (ARI may involved in achieving our goal of spreading Objec- The Free Books project was begun in 2002 know of other individuals who would like to help tivism; I will simply be doing so from a different and has grown phenomenally since then. Under sponsor the same region as you; please contact us vantage point.” the project, ARI sends free copies of The Foun- for information.) * * * tainhead and Anthem to high school English * * * teachers who would like to teach these novels but ARI recently sent sample copies of The Fountain- are unable to for lack of school funding. Teach- head and Anthem to more than 400 high school A Conversation with ers have welcomed our offer with open arms. curriculum directors in the states of Washington As one teacher from Rio Linda, California, said, and New Jersey. Showing these decision-makers Peter Schwartz “I’ve been trying to [obtain] copies of Anthem the value of Ayn Rand’s novels is one means of for several years from my district, but with recent eventually getting schools to purchase the books Peter Schwartz became a member of the Ayn Rand budget cuts statewide, I have been blocked again using their own funding. Included with the sample Institute’s Board of Directors in 1986. In 1994 he and again for the last five years. I would really books were teachers’ guides to the novels. became chairman of the board and served in that appreciate ARI’s assistance.” role through October 2005. Mr. Schwartz has taught So far, ARI has sent more than 170,000 copies Announcing “The Ayn Rand writing classes for the Objectivist Academic Center of Ayn Rand’s novels to classrooms across North and has served as editorial director of the Institute’s America. Assuming these books are reused for five Institute (Canada)” op-ed program. He is now a Distinguished Fellow years, they will reach some 850,000 students. This at ARI and will, among other activities, conduct project is accomplishing the crucially important mpact is pleased to report the start of a new advanced seminars for ARI’s writers. goal of introducing students to the rational universe Iorganization: The Ayn Rand Institute (Canada). Impact recently spoke to Mr. Schwartz briefly and heroic characters of Ayn Rand’s fiction—and The new organization is separate from ARI about his tenure on the Board of Directors and the ideas that underlie her novels. As a sample of and is based in Vancouver, Canada. As a charitable his new relationship with the Institute. the effect the project has had, consider what one organization, it has tax-exempt status under Cana- * * * teacher from Kinston, North Carolina, wrote to us: dian law and the contributions it receives from “I’ve taught Anthem for three years and The Foun- Canadian donors are tax-deductible. The donations Impact: How would you describe the changes in tainhead for two. Students love them! So much, in received by ARI (Canada) will be used exclusively ARI during your years on the board? fact, that they hate to return them.” to fund the Free Books project (see related story) Peter Schwartz: Well, when we began, we We invite you to take advantage of the limited as well as essay contests on Anthem, The Foun- were delighted to be able to reach a couple of opportunity to sponsor a region with the aid of the tainhead and Atlas Shrugged for high school and thousand high school students through our essay matching fund. Please contact us to find out the college students in Canada. The Institute congratu- contest on The Fountainhead. Today, leaving cost of sponsoring a given city, county or state. For lates ARI (Canada) on its successful start-up and aside the unaided sales of Ayn Rand’s books, I sponsorships of $3,000 or more, ARI will (at your wishes it the very best in its ventures. would say that the number of people introduced option) affix bookplates to the inside covers of the While a separate organization from ARI, to her ideas each year through the direct efforts books you sponsor; the bookplates state: “This some of ARI’s staff are also on the staff of ARI of ARI—the Free Books to Teachers project, the book was provided by the generosity of [your (Canada). The president and executive director of media programs, the projects with [Ayn Rand’s name or company name].” ARI (Canada) is Dr. Yaron Brook; its corporate publisher] Penguin Books, the Web site, the secretary and general manager is Debi Ghate; its campus activities, etc.—is in the millions. That treasurer is Julie Ferguson. On the Board of Direc- represents remarkable progress. Pooling Resources to Finance tors of ARI (Canada) are: Dr. Brook, Dr. John We have a clear-cut intellectual mission: to Free Books Ridpath and Mr. Glenn Woiceshyn. expose our culture to the revolutionary philoso- A group of about forty people in Colorado com- To contact ARI (Canada) please write to: Suite phy of Objectivism. We’ve consistently kept bined their resources to fund ARI’s Free Books 812, 6540 East Hastings, Burnaby, British Colum- continued on page 2 project in that state. The prime mover of this joint bia V5B 4Z5, or: [email protected]. A Conversation with Peter Schwartz, continued from page 1 to that goal and, over the years, we’ve become increasingly successful at finding new and bet- ter ways of achieving it. When I started on the board, our budget was just under $400,000; now it is at more than ten times that level. A business grows as it makes products that its market judges are good and are worth buying. Similarly, ARI grows as it creates intellectual products that our supporters judge are good and are worth financ- Ayn Rand’s Periodicals by Miss Rand (and others who wrote under her ing. We have a long track record now, by which editorship) The Objectivist Newsletter contains to show our supporters that they are getting, and Each month Impact suggests readings and other an “Intellectual Ammunition Department” col- will continue to get, their money’s worth. resources for fans of Ayn Rand’s fiction who wish umn that gives answers to questions commonly We’re trying to advance ideas that challenge to learn more about her philosophy, Objectivism. asked by students of Miss Rand’s philosophy. the entrenched philosophy of the entire culture. Many of Miss Rand’s essays were later We’re not like the ACLU, which counts on that published in anthologies, such as The Virtue of entrenched philosophy and tries to accomplish ow does Objectivism apply to current Selfishness, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and something at the margins. We don’t operate at the Hevents in the real world? What is good and The Romantic Manifesto. All the back issues of margins; our aim is to transform the intellectual evil—and how does one apply moral principles Miss Rand’s periodicals—featuring essays by core. The Institute is primarily an educational orga- in life? How does one objectively judge the her that are not included in any anthology—are nization. We function by openly announcing to the character of other men? How can one lead a available in hardcover, bound volumes. These world: “We have a radically different philosophy to rational life in an irrational society? What stand volumes are an intellectual feast for anyone offer—let us show you why you ought to adopt it.” does Objectivism have on abortion? Answers seeking to enhance his understanding of Objec- The most efficient way for us to teach people to such questions can be found in Ayn Rand’s tivism.
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