Founding Forward aspires to educate and inspire by:
Founding Forward fosters immersive education experiences for students, teachers, and citizens through an array of in-person programs, historic resources and collections, scholarships, awards, speaker programs, and other unique learning opportunities.
We take students beyond the textbook and classroom to immerse them in the places and events where history happened. We instill insights and leadership skills to last a lifetime and give students a personal understanding of our country’s founding principles and their responsibilities as citizens.
Our accredited and critically acclaimed professional development seminars enrich educators’ knowledge of history and provide inspiration to bring back to their classrooms. More than 14,000 diverse educators have deepened their understanding of America’s founding principles through courses and seminars taught by extraordinary scholars and thinkers.
Our speaker programs, historic resources, collections, and exhibits provide year-round opportunities for the public to learn more about our history, the founding principles, and continue what we believe should be a lifelong pursuit of education.
Founding Forward also cares for the history and values of The Union League of Philadelphia, including sharing the historic collections, producing interpretive exhibits, and presenting speakers programs for thought leadership. The extensive Civil War-based historic collections of the Union League and related organizations, along with exhibits in the Heritage Center, serve to educate, inspire, and inform our program participants.
Founding Forward’s work and mission is made possible through voluntary contributions. We need your support to ensure a future rooted in liberty. Please join our efforts to uphold our democratic system of government with your tax-deductible contribution.
