TRUSTEES PROGRAM

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) welcomes supporters making contributions of $10,000 or greater to the Trustee level. As a Trustee you will enjoy a number of benefits including:

• FDD Experts and Conference Calls
• Invitations to "Leading Thinkers" Conference
• Books, Documentaries, and Publications
• Invitations to Special Events
• Insider Edition of the Newsletter
• Opportunity to Become an FDD Board Member
• Venture Philanthropy

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Every day brings news that makes headlines and leads the nightly newscasts, yet traditional news sources only skim the surface. Get the full story and understand its implications for you and our nation's security. As a policy institute with broad expertise on the issues that concern you most, FDD will provide you with access to FDD's veritable brain trust of experts in foreign affairs, public policy, democracy-building, and counterterrorism.

• Through exclusive dial-in access, you can participate in our regularly scheduled conference calls conducted by FDD experts on timely and pertinent issues in the war on terror.
• An open invitation to visit FDD's office to meet our scholars and senior staff members

As a trustee you will also receive an invitation for you and a guest to attend FDD's "Leading Thinkers" Conference at a beautiful resort in the Bahamas.

You will meet leading experts from the United States, Europe, Israel, and the Middle East at our informal two-day workshop to discuss and select issues pertinent to the war against terrorism and the fight for democracy.

Past speakers and attendees have included Henry A. Crumpton, the former chief of the State Department's counterterrorism office and a key strategist in the war in Afghanistan; David Aaron, director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy; Paula Dobriansky, U.S. undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs; Steven Krasner, director of public policy for the U.S. State Department; Bernard Lewis, Clevland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University; Uri Lubrani, advisor to the Israeli minister of defense and former Israeli ambassador; Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard editor; Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foriegn Affairs; Bret Stephens, editorial writer and "Global View" columnist for The Wall Street Journal; and scores of other government officials, policy experts, and journalists.
 

FDD Trustees will recieve copies of books published in by staff and fellows at FDD as well as documentaries, research reports, and white papers. Many FDD experts are best-selling authors whose earlier books have been updated and will be released in paperback.

• My Year Inside Radical Islam by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, paperback version
• Daveed Gartenstein-Ross's upcoming book on homegrown terrorism
• Andrew C. McCarthy's book Willful Blindess: Memoir of the Jihad on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, its trial, and its implications
• Dr. J. Peter Pham's upcoming book on Africa and radical Islam
• The War of Ideas by Dr. Walid Phares, paperback version
• Dr. Walid Phares's upcoming book on international threats to democracy
• Claudia Rosett's upcoming book on her investigation into corruption in the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program
• A monograph by FDD's research division on energy security
  

Invitations to Special Events

FDD Trustees will be invited to be our special guest at our full calendar of special events. Specifically, you will be invited to attend all FDD conferences, congressional hearings on Capitol Hill featuring FDD officials, private FDD dinners, press conferences both here and in Europe, book parties, and book signings with FDD authors, and other FDD events.

Stay informed with insider information. As a trustee, you will receive an elite version of the FDD newsletter sent every week via e-mail. Your special edition will contain confidential insider information as well as updates on FDD programs and activities.

 
 

 Opportunity to Become an FDD Board Member

Trustees can join FDD's Board of Directors by raising an additional $90,000. Recruit other people to become trustees supporting our noble cause and you will be eligible to be an FDD board member -- part of FDD's leadership team of visionary business leaders and policymakers who help set our priorities and strategies. Arrange a meeting of prospective trustees and we will be there to help you make the case.

• $10,000 Trustee
• $25,000 Chairman's Circle
• $100,000 Board of Directors
• $250,000 Executive Committee

An FDD trustee makes a real difference in the battle against radical Islam by working with us as a venture philanthropist.

You can specify that your donation (and the support of others who share your enthusiasm) benefit a new FDD project or an existing one that addresses your vital concern.

With the assistance of our supporters, we have incubated a number of different projects that are achieving real and measurable results.