Achievements of the Stiefel Freethought Foundation and Todd Stiefel

Accomplishments in 2012:

• SFF is the largest financial sponsor of both the Reason Rally and Rock Beyond Belief. (Note: the money was donated in 2011.)
• SFF donated $100,000 to support the "We Are AAH" campaign from African Americans for Humanism. SFF brought the concept for this campaign to AAH, and provided strategic and creative guidance.
• SFF is offering a dollar for dollar matching challenge with Camp Quest. We will match up to $50,000 in total donations given during 2012.
• SFF is also offering a dollar for dollar matching challenge with the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF). We will double gifts, up to $50,000 in total donations, made to MAAF by veterans and current members of the military.
• SFF donated $10,000 to ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation to support their work against the North Carolina marriage inequality constitutional amendment.
• So far this year, Todd and SFF have given a number of smaller gifts to the freethought movement. These donations come to a total of around $34,000 from SFF.
• More to be announced soon. Many projects are in the works!

Accomplishments in 2011:

• SFF has donated $200,000 toward the Reason Rally in Washington, DC. This will be an incredible event for freethinkers in the spring of 2012 and will feature top talent, great speakers and amazing music.
• SFF donated $50,000 to Religion News Service to bolster its coverage of freethinkers with a series of news, investigations, feature stories and photos.
• SFF donated $50,000 to support the Rock Beyond Belief secular festival at Ft. Bragg.
• Todd donated an additional $500,000 to SFF.
• SFF donated $12,000 to the American Humanist Association for their general fund and to invest in technology for the Humanist Hour podcast.
• SFF donated $10,000 to the legal fund for Atheists of Florida to assist in their defense against religious-based persecution by their local government.
• SFF gave $10,000 to Center for Inquiry to help them expand their Living Without Religion advertising campaign. Their campaign promotes the concept that "you don't need God to hope, to care, to love, to live."
• SFF gave $10,000 to Equality NC Foundation to support marriage equality in NC and oppose the religious bigotry that feuls this debate.
• SFF donated $3,508.73 to Camp Quest as part of matching challenge gift to spur donations over the last few hours of a blogger fundraising contest.
• Facilitated the creation of the Triangle Coalition of Reason, a part of the United Coalition of Reason.
• So far this year, Todd and SFF have given a number of smaller gifts to the freethought movement. These donations come to a total of around $74,000 from SFF and and around $23,200 from Todd directly.

Accomplishments in 2010:

• SFF gave a total of $257,200 in 2010 including one-time gifts and annual gifts to freethought and church/state separation organizations.
• Todd was recognized with the American Atheists' 2010 Activist of the Year Award
• SFF gave $150,000 to the American Humanist Association toward the Consider Humanism campaign. SFF brought the idea for the ads to the AHA and assisted in the development of the campaign.
• Via a $20,000 donation to the American Humanist Association, Todd and his wife helped sponsor the Second Chance Prom for Constance McMillen after she was not allowed to attend her prom with her girlfriend.
• SFF gave $15,000 to sponsor the ReligionLink source guide on the Freethought Movement. This provides the general public, and thousands of journalists in particular, with an extensive online guide to the Freethought Movement including trends, story ideas, sources, contact information, links to pertinent groups and reference articles.
• Todd was a panelist on the "Dialogue of Reason: Science and Faith in the Black Community" event at Howard University.
• Todd gave a $100,000 matching challenge gift to the American Atheists.
• SFF donated $50,000 to the Secular Student Alliance to help organize and support high school groups for nonreligious teenagers.
• Todd donated $32,000 to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
• SFF gave $4,000 to Atheist Alliance International to help in the construction of the Kilembe Valley Humanist Nursery and Primary School in Uganda.
• SFF gave $2,500 to fund a portion of the "Reason's Greetings" Freedom From Religion Foundation billboard in Raleigh, NC. This was in support of the local FFRF chapter, the Triangle Freethought Society.
• Todd was the liaison between the Triangle Freethought Society and Americans United for Separation of Church and State in an effort to stop un-Constitutional aspects of the Wake County Public School System's faith-based Adopt-A-School Initiative. Positive outcomes included new provisions put in place by the school system to prohibit proselytizing by volunteers to students, regardless of location, and the removal of a fundamentalist church as the official county training provider for volunteer mentors in the program. The church's mandatory volunteer training sessions had encouraged mentors to use students to get to their parents and then get the families off school grounds where, according the the training, "when they're in your area, you can do whatever you want in terms of giving them Christ and ministering to the whole family."
• Todd's activism was featured in a front-page article in the Raleigh News & Observer.
• Todd and SFF gave a number of smaller gifts to the freethought movement. These donations came to a total of around $25,000 from Todd directly and around $36,000 from SFF.

Accomplishments in 2009:

• SFF was founded by Todd with a $2,000,000 endowment.
• Todd gave $500,000 to the Secular Coalition for America Education Fund.
• Todd gave a $100,000 matching challenge gift to the American Humanist Association.
• Todd gave a gift of $100,000 to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
• Todd gave a $50,000 matching challenge gift to the Secular Student Alliance.
• Todd gave a number of smaller gifts to the freethought movement. These donations came to a total of around $30,000.

Accomplishments in 2008:

• Todd sponsored the Freedom from Religion Foundation's "Keep Religion out of Politics" billboards that were run during the Republican and Democratic national conventions.