We expanded to 86 councils, including new councils in Salt Lake City, Corpus Christi, Las Vegas, Lansing, and Hilton Head. Again our highest in history.

Our councils hosted 10 heads of state or government.

We celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Great Decisions nationwide. We adopted Great Decisions as a Flagship Program and now have 45 councils participating in it.

The Southern Center organized World in Transition flagship workshops for 1290 teachers, working with nine councils nationwide.

The San Francisco Council's radio program It's Your World is now syndicated at 21 NPR stations around the country.

The Chicago Council produced US and Mexican foreign policy opinion polls and a task force study on US immigration. Its portal website GlobalChicago.org is now complete.

We held our second national Academic WorldQuest high school competition at the World Bank. Momentum is growing nationwide.

The Seattle, Minnesota, and Dallas councils passed the $1m budget mark.

The Philadelphia Council organized 15 trips for 179 members nationwide.

Rhode Island celebrated its 70th anniversary, New Orleans its 60th, Hawaii its 50th, and Colorado Springs its 25th.

We produced our first-ever Foreign Policy 500 book, selecting our 500 most influential people in foreign policy.

Our councils had 16 programs on C-SPAN and 29 on PBS, including 5 FPA specials on election issues. The Southern Center ran The Angry World on PBS.

The FPA published its Citizens Guide for voters, completed an Americans and the World national poll, and published its first-ever Foreign Policy Book Reviews.

We organized national series on: European Union, Weapons in Space, The People Speak, By the People, Anti-Americanism, Future of Korean Peninsula, Iraq: Before and Now, and Human Rights and Democracy Worldwide

Congratulations to everyone on this remarkable list of accomplishments!

Our system is growing in membership, funds, programs, innovativeness, cohesiveness, visibility, and impact!