A Young America's Foundation program is typically the first conservative activity a student attends. The Foundation introduces its students to many other fine conservative organizations that can also help in their education and activities. Traditional values fell out of favor with young Americans in the 1960s because there weren't enough effective organizations like Young America's Foundation to compete with the Socialists and Radicals who conducted their own outreach programs. Today, Young America's Foundation's outreach programs are so effective that the Left has responded with desperate measures including restrictive speech codes, mandatory sensitivity training programs, and by banning conservative clubs. Young America's Foundation reaches society's most impressionable audience.
Many college students are away from home for the first time.
These 17 and 18 year olds are open to new ideas and new experiences. They spend four critical years exploring novel intellectual experiences. This is the time to reach individuals with our ideas not later when they are busy building a family or business. This is also the audience that the Radical Left, Hollywood, and other opinion molders target most aggressively. Those who make the effort, invest the most money and talents, will have the most influence on this age group.