FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC

LAWSUITS CHALLENGING ENTANGLEMENT OF RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF RELIGION. FFRF FAVORABLY SETTLED TWO LAWSUITS AND FILED THREE NEW COURT CHANGES. FFRF FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST A MEMPHIS-AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR UNLAWFULLY DISCRIMINATING AGAINST AN AFTER SCHOOL SATAN CLUB, WHICH WAS SETTLED AFTER THE DISTRICT AGREED TO TREAT THAT CLUB EQUALLY GOING FORWARD. FFRF SUED WITH A COALITION IN FEDERAL COURT TO CHALLENGE A LOUISIANA LAW THAT REQUIRES TEN COMMANDMENTS DISPLAYS IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOM FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH COLLEGE. FFRF ALSO FILED A LAWSUIT WITH A COALITION IN OKLAHOMA, OPPOSING THE STATE'S SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT MANDATE TO INFUSE BIBLICAL TEACHINGS AS PART OF THE CURRICULA AND ALLOCATING $3 MILLION IN STATE FUNDS TO PURCHASE BIBLES. SETTLED WAS A LAWSUIT AGAINST 8 FEDERAL AGENCIES RESULTING IN REINSTATEMENT OF SAFEGUARDS TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION BY FAITH-BASED PROVIDERS. FFRF ALSO WAS REIMBURSED $358,000 FOR ATTORNEY'S FEES IN A VICTORIOUS LAWSUIT AGAINST TEXAS GOV. ABBOTT FOR ILLEGALLY CENSORING OUR BILL OF RIGHTS DISPLAY IN THE TEXAS STATE CAPITOL. FFRF RESPONDED TO 2,451 REPORTS OF POTENTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS, SENT MORE THAN 667 FORMAL COMPLAINT LETTERS TO VIOLATING GOVERNMENT ACTORS, MOSTLY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, RESULTING IN 227 SIGNIFICANT CONSTITUTIONAL VICTORIES. IN ADDITION, FFRF FILED AMICUS BRIEFS IN 12 OTHER STATE/CHURCH LAWSUITS.

EDUCATIONAL EVENTS, CONVENTION, MEETINGS, MEDIA APPEARANCES, SPEECHES, DEBATES, TRAVEL, AND AWARDS. FFRF TOPPED MORE THAN 40,000 MEMBERS, AND HELD ITS 47TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION IN DENVER, COLO.., WITH MORE THAN 600 ATTENDEES FROM 46 STATES, D.C., NEPAL, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND CANADA. LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE STAFF SPOKE AT MORE THAN A DOZEN CHAPTERS AND CONFERENCES, AND CO-PRESIDENTS SPOKE OR DEBATED AT EVENTS IN FINLAND, NIGERIA, CAMBRIDGE UNION, U.K., AND VIRGINIA. FFRF AWARDED $130,250 IN SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS TO 81 STUDENT WINNERS; TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS TO 8 STUDENTS WHO WERE FIRST-IN-FAMILY TO ATTEND COLLEGE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH BLACK SKEPTICS LOS ANGELES; AND 7 STUDENT ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIPS, SOME AWARDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE. ESTABLISHED, WITH PARTNERS, THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL REASON RECEPTION ON THE HILL.