The Academy Purpose
Free market capitalism, limited government, individual rights, individual responsibility, enterprise and entrepreneurship are the foundation of a productive and successful American society. To promote and advance scholarly research and teaching about these vital principles, gifts from donors have established an endowment within the University of Illinois Foundation—The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund. The Fund is overseen by the Academy Fund’s board of directors and it will provide grants for programs, research and activities on the Urbana-Champaign campus in response to proposals submitted by faculty and approved by the Chancellor’s office.
The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund encourages and enables visionary friends of the University to endow chairs, professorships, scholarships, and fellowships, and to support lectures and symposia, curricular development in response to requests from the faculty, research activities and publication of findings through private gifts.
Our Founding Fathers subscribed to and advocated an enlightened yet limited government, one that vigorously promotes political freedom and economic opportunity, one that anticipates and nurtures the unlimited potential and private energies of the individual.
For additional information on The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund, please download our brochure. 
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