Volume XXXIV | Number 2 | FALL 2019 BUILDING LEADER SHIP The Newsletter of the Leadership Institute Praesentia Tibi, Si Mihi Futura “ We’ve got to WIN THE NEXT GENERATION.” — VICE PRESIDENT

Dear Friend, Just weeks ago, Vice President Mike Pence visited the Leadership Institute to send off a class of our newly-minted campus field representatives. The Vice President could not have come at a better time to speak from the heart and impart his wisdom to these young conservatives — as LI’s 21 field reps experienced our summer’s most rigorous training program.

An encounter young conservatives will never forget Vice President Mike Pence himself is a beneficiary of the Leadership Institute’s training and came to share with young Vice President Mike Pence speaks to student Coty Clarke in the Leadership Institute’s classrooms. conservatives his experience The Vice President visited the Leadership Institute and inspired a class of LI field representatives who building the conservative movement deployed nationwide to recruit and organize conservative students on college campuses this fall. — and what they must do to prepare for a lifetime of leadership. You can bet the young leaders the Vice President spoke to in our the country. Throughout this fall semester, they will recruit, train, and classroom will never forget their encounter with him. organize conservative college students and help create strong conservative It’s something special to know that the Vice President agrees with you leadership for the future of our country. and me enough to give his most precious and limited resource — his time You provided the training and inspiration for these young men — to come and speak personally to these students, and invest in the next and women as they deploy nationwide — to train and inspire the next generation of America’s leaders. generation to save the America you and I love. On the next page, I will tell you what Mike Pence said to our class of Thank you for your partnership to turn young conservatives into young conservatives. America’s future leaders. Cordially, Creating the future leaders of America Training and organizing the next generation is the key to America’s future. Your continued support to the Leadership Institute shows you Morton C. Blackwell understand that clearly. As you read this, 21 young men and women, President, Leadership Institute LI’s 2019 fall field representatives, go from campus to campus across

THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE • STEVEN P.J. WOOD BUILDING • 1101 N. HIGHLAND ST. • ARLINGTON, VA 22201 • (703) 247-2000 • WWW.LEADERSHIPINSTITUTE.ORG Vice President Mike Pence and Leadership Institute president stand with Institute field representatives and team members — an encounter the young men and women in that room will never forget. INVESTING IN AMERICA’S FUTURE LEADERS Mike Pence sends off Leadership Institute field representatives “I know I am looking at future leaders — The college years are often when students The work done today not just of the conservative movement — but develop the worldview, , and future leaders of the United States of America,” philosophy they hold for the rest of their lives. determines the state of Vice President Mike Pence said during his In Mike Pence’s case, it was only when he freedom tomorrow speech this summer at your Leadership got to college that he met conservatives who “We as conservatives are given the privilege Institute. And he’s absolutely right. encouraged him to read about the ideals of the of preserving and protecting and expanding Mike Pence addressed an audience of young American founding and the principles of limited freedom for future generations,” the Vice men and women training to become Leadership enshrined in the Constitution. President said. Institute field representatives. Only after listening closely to Ronald Thanks to the training you provided, Reagan did Mike Pence realize that he too was Today, these brave youth serve behind these young men and women now carry our a conservative. enemy lines. And Vice President Pence’s conservative message to college campuses words inspired them to fight all the harder That put him on a path to make a difference across the country this fall. If you and I and for conservative victory in 2020 and beyond. for America. He left the Democratic Party. He our Leadership Institute field reps do our “Our movement is going to be stronger sought out my guidance and hired a Leadership jobs right, many more young Americans will because of the investment that you are Institute graduate as his campaign manager. embrace conservative principles. What a making,” the Vice President told the young Mike didn’t give up even when he lost his first powerful difference you and I can make for the conservatives. two races for U.S. Congress. future of our country. But then he became a Congressman. Then a America’s tomorrow is dependent on the The crucial college years Governor. And now Mike Pence serves as Vice work you and I do today to secure freedom for President of the United States. future generations. As Mike Pence shared at Vice President Mike Pence knows that you You can see how crucial the college the Leadership Institute, “It will not be enough help the Leadership Institute fight today years prove in shaping the course of a young just to win the next election. We’ve got to for a better tomorrow. You and I train a new American’s life. The lessons students learn win the next generation. That’s what the generation of conservative leaders. and the key people they meet have immense Leadership Institute is all about.” He understands what you and I know so influence in their lives. Thank you so much for supporting this well. Mike Pence shared his wisdom with “Don’t ever doubt the impact that you can crucial work for America’s future. these young leaders, saying “some of the most have on young men and women who have important decisions that we make in our lives come into that time in their life,” Mike Pence happen in those college years.” encouraged the young field representatives.

2 The Vice President of the United States told the room of young conservatives, “Thanks to the leadership that Morton Blackwell has provided now for more than 40 years here at the Leadership Institute, we’re winning. Our ideas are winning.” He shook the hands of all the Institute’s field reps and told them, “I’m absolutely confident that if all of us continue to do all that we need to do, not just in the next election but in the years ahead, we’re going to make this country more prosperous and more secure than ever before.” “I know I am looking at future leaders — not just of the conservative movement — but future leaders of the United States of America.” VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE

3 The Leadership Institute’s CAMPUS RESCUE MISSION

OBJECTIVE: Train and empower young conservatives to win back America’s colleges and universities for free speech and constitutional principles

DEPLOY & RECRUIT

Send out field organizers to identify conservative students At colleges nationwide, Institute field representatives organize students to advance conservative principles on campus. Through your support, you helped the Leadership Institute equip top-notch conservatives this summer with inspiration — including a visit from Vice President Mike Pence — and highly-effective training to mobilize students. Once identified by LI’s field representatives, students organize into groups, Now, 21 Leadership Institute field representatives recruit more students to grow membership, advance conservative principles, organize on college campuses throughout this fall and gain the skills to engage in successful activism against the campus left. semester to conduct a rescue mission for conservative students. A conservative student on campus is surrounded on all sides — by liberal professors, leftist administrators, and indoctrinated students. But your support of the Leadership Institute sends field staffers to identify, recruit, and organize embattled conservative students. Thanks to you, a conservative student breathes a sigh of relief when he or she meets and bands together with like-minded students on campus. The Institute teaches these young conservatives how to fight leftist bias, abuses, and indoctrination from professors and campus administrators. Once formed into groups, these students join the Leadership Institute’s powerful national network of With the help of the Leadership Institute, conservative students at California conservative groups — now 2,117 active, local groups State University in Fresno set up a right-to-work vs. union hot dog stand. The strong on campuses in all 50 states — and receive training students won an award and successfully demonstrated free-market principles and support to push back the leftist campus onslaught. to the community.

4 TRAIN & SUPPORT

Prepare students to end leftist domination on America’s campuses Just because conservative principles lead to prosperity doesn’t mean conservatism will advance on campus. To defeat the left, students must learn how to win. With your support, the Leadership Institute forms conservative students into organized units — student groups — and then helps turn their principles and ideas into action. Across America, expert faculty in the Leadership Field representative candidates train at the Leadership Institute’s national Institute’s Youth Leadership School — our “boot camp of headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Twenty-one cream-of-the-crop field reps politics” — teach students how to: travel from campus to campus this fall to recruit and organize conservative students. l increase the size and effectiveness of their campus groups l host successful high-profile speaker events l engage in campus activism to promote conservative principles l use the media to get their message out Conservative students then learn special tactics — to make them fearsome activists — at the Leadership Institute’s Student Leadership Conference. Here, students learn how to formulate and execute activism ideas, organize rallies, and take high-quality photos and videos to expose indoctrination and provide evidence of violent assaults to the media and police. Throughout the academic year, the Institute’s regional field coordinators provide continual support to train and mentor students in their activism.

ADVANCE

Win elections to student Leadership Institute campus staffers Allen Clarke and Kelsey Mix prepare Your support helps conservative students fight the liberals activism kits for student groups across the country. High-profile activism from within campus governments. events grab the attention of students and get them engaged in conservative At college, conservative students face heavy-handed ideas. leftist bias not just from professors and administrators, but also from liberal students. Liberal student governments often deny official recognition to student groups — to stop them from holding conservative events on campus. And biased student governments can close the purse strings — to deny conservative groups funding equal to what they give to leftist groups. They often deny conservatives any funding at all. The Burke Society at the University of Virginia experienced anti-conservative bias twice. First, the student government denied the Burke Society official recognition because their group “restricts membership to only those that have conservative values.” Then, the student government denied the Burke Society’s request for a Conservatism 101 class to balance the heavily-liberal curriculum. With the help of the Leadership Institute, the Burke Society’s members reversed both denials. Institute staff trained Burke Society members in a Campus Election Workshop how to win election to student government — and how to change campus policies from within. Leadership Institute team member Rebekah Beeton shows a field rep how to answer questions from students on campus and promote conservative Conservatives elected to student governments can vote principles. to formally recognize conservative student groups and fairly allocate funding to them to promote their conservative principles. CONTINUED s

5 Massive readership means networks and programs including , Hannity, The Ingraham Angle, The Show, , Huffington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, and many others take notice EXPOSE & BOMBARD of CampusReform.org’s investigative coverage and communicate it to an even larger national audience. Investigate leftist abuses on campus Our Campus Reform reporters and students have published 930 and launch an air assault through LI’s articles so far in 2019. Since 2014, LI’s Campus Reform coverage has exposed and undone at least 192 liberal policies and outrageous actions CampusReform.org on college campuses. While conservative students battle leftists at colleges on the ground, Your support equips the Leadership Institute to bombard the air waves Leadership Institute investigative journalists assist them with an air and online media. Our Campus Reform coverage has forced universities assault. to reverse liberal policies, issue apologies, and even suspend or fire The Leadership Institute’s campus news watchdog website, abusive leftist professors. CampusReform.org, nationally exposes and stops liberal violence and other leftist abuses on college campuses to level the playing field for conservatives. When a student reports to us evidence of abuse, our Campus VICTORY! Reform staff thoroughly investigate the issue and then publish a story on our widely-consulted website. LI’s CampusReform.org has experienced explosive growth since its Thanks to Leadership Institute donors like birth in 2009. Our website has earned 8.3 million unique page views you, conservative students stand up to win so far this year. The Leadership Institute’s operation to rescue conservative students from the clutches of the left would not exist without you. Otherwise, conservative students would stand alone on the battlefield, surrounded by the enemy, and faced with two options — convert to leftism, or suffer in silence. As a Leadership Institute donor, you understand our vital mission to recruit, organize, train, and equip conservative students to fight back against liberal indoctrination and violence on college campuses. Your support not only has immediate effects in young conservatives’ lives. When you inspire them to stand up for their principles now, you turn them into lifelong leaders who will save America from the left’s push toward socialism. The free speech ball is one of LI’s most popular and visible activism events. As The work is not easy, but you have achieved so much college students write their thoughts on the ball, they demonstrate the importance of First Amendment rights. When leftist malcontents call campus police to to roll back the left’s domination of America’s higher- complain that the beach ball makes them feel “unsafe,” or attempt to disrupt the education system. Thank you for your continued support conservatives’ right to hold an event, conservative students film the encounters. of the Leadership Institute to help conservative students, This evidence helps students built air-tight cases against liberal disruptors. activists, and leaders stand up and win.

Come see what your support does. Friend, it’s one thing for me to report back to you about the young men and women you train for victory. It’s quite another to look those young conservatives in the eye and shake their hands. You’ll energize students because they know you stand with them. Please call (703) 247-2000 to visit the Leadership Institute’s headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. You’ll be glad you did.

6 Stand for what you believe, even in the face of adversity.

JACQUELINE MOCK A DONOR PROFILE

“If you don’t stand up for something you fall for everything,” Mrs. Mock was inspired by the bravery and moral courage said Jacqueline Mock of Kunkletown, Pennsylvania. “That’s why I of her ancestor, Naval Officer Joseph Hazard Terry, whom she give to the Leadership Institute.” remembers for his strong faith, love of family, and duty to country. Jacqueline Mock grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh. These values are what informed her decision to give to the She has a deep gratitude for her pastor, who taught her the power Leadership Institute. of public speaking and how to communicate effectively. She uses Mrs. Mock knows that by supporting the Institute, she is these skills to stand up for her conservative principles and works training a new crop of conservative leaders. through LI to teach young Americans to do the same. “You haven’t lived until you’ve stood up for something that you Building a movement, not an empire really believe in and taken some slings and arrows for it,” Mrs. Mock shared. “I know what it’s like to be bullied and called Mrs. Mock was not only inspired by the mission of the names, but these conservative students give me hope. I’ve faced Leadership Institute, but also the leadership of Morton Blackwell adversity for my values too.” who founded the Leadership Institute in 1979. “It’s not just that I like what the Leadership Institute is doing. Take action for what you believe in It’s that the heart of what they’re doing is very good,” Mrs. Mock shared. “Morton has set out not to build an empire, but a There is power in one good teacher being able to change lives, movement. That’s something that I support.” which is why for a time Jacqueline supported her late husband’s It’s important to stand for what you believe in, especially in alma mater, Lehigh University. the face of adversity. Because of the generous support of Mrs. But after seeing the radical left’s takeover of America’s college Mock, and many other supporters of the Leadership Institute who campuses — including Lehigh University — Mrs. Mock decided agree with her, the Leadership Institute will continue to build the that she couldn’t stand on the sidelines any longer. conservative movement and create America’s future leaders. Mrs. Mock was disheartened to see a university she loved turn — by Bill Dowhy more and more liberal every day. She decided to take action. “When I read their alumni magazine, and some of the things that “It’s not just that I like what the college administrators were saying — I felt like weeping,” Mrs. Mock said. “If there were twelve college professors, eleven of them would be liberal. Eleven! I just couldn’t support it any longer.” the Leadership Institute is America cries out for strong, conservative leadership, and over doing. It’s that the heart the last 40 years, the Leadership Institute has trained more than 217,100 conservative activists and movement leaders. of what they’re doing is very good.”

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