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The following is a listing of projects that we are currently raising money for and working on.  You can direct your contribution to a specific project that is of interest to you.  If you would like more detailed information about a specific project, please send an email to jenni.irving@chitester.net

  • Choices that Matter – Four half hour programs hosted by Bjorn Lomborg, outlining the concept and initial results of the Copenhagen Consensus initiative.  This will be a co-production with London based documentary producer ITN Factual.
     
  • Johan Norberg Series – A major TV series with him, based on his latest book, which has the working title, When Mankind Created the World.  Norberg will revisit the points covered by Milton Friedman in Free to Choose from a contemporary perspective.
     
  • Private Space Exploration – Two teaching units hosted by Scott Bakula, star of Star Trek Enterprise and Quantum Leap, on the value of competition.  Points out that governments and government agencies impede innovation and wealth creation.
     
  • Planning for Freedom Index – A one hour program and several teaching units based on the Fraser Institute ranking of nations by their level of economic freedom.  We will highlight the correlation between economic freedom, standard of living and personal and political freedom.
     
  • TV Biography of George Shultz – Two one hour programs documenting the life and work of George Shultz.  Secretary Shultz has provided us access to his professional and personal archives and agreed to several hours of interviews.
     
  • Unintended Consequences:  The New Deal – A teaching unit examining the impact of policies developed by the Franklin Roosevelt administration to overcome the Great Depression.
     
  • Unintended Consequences:  The Fall of the Ottoman Empire – A teaching unit on the policies and events that led to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and the players involved in its collapse and the motivations behind their division of Empire.
     
  • Unintended Consequences:  Agricultural Subsidies – With positive input from Oxfam, a teaching unit on the negative impact of agricultural subsidies on world poverty.
     
  • Unintended Consequences:  Communism’s Legacy – A teaching unit summarizing the millennium long fascination with communism, and an in depth look at the 70 years of communism in the Soviet Union. 
     
  • Unintended Consequences:  Eminent Domain – In partnership with Reason Foundation we’re producing a pair of teaching units on this concept and its abuse.
     
  • Unintended Consequences:  The Great Depression – The first in a series of teaching units that will examine historical events that are not being accurately or thoroughly presented in history classes.  This unit will show it was government acting through the Federal Reserve system, not a failure of capitalism, that caused the Great Depression.