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Institute for Humanist Studies
48 Howard St.Albany, N.Y.
12207 U.S.A.
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About the Institute for Humanist Studies
The Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) is a think tank whose mission is to promote greater public awareness, understanding, and support for humanism. The Institute specializes in pioneering new technology and methods for the advancement of humanism.
Founded in 1999 as a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit institute, IHS operates business offices and meeting facilities at the Humanist Center in Albany, New York.
IHS provides accessible and authoritative information about humanism and the nonreligious to the media, academia, and the general public. It also performs a distinctive role within the organized humanist community. As a non-membership organization, IHS is able to complement other humanist organizations rather than competing for members and subscribers. It not only cooperates with other humanist groups, but actively supports them by publicizing their activities and providing financial support to their best programs.
In all its work, the Institute aims to exemplify the humanist values of reason, innovation, and cooperation.
- The IHS Grant Fund supports the most promising and innovative projects in the humanist and freethought communities.
- IHS provides free Web hosting, e-mail and tech support to humanist and related websites.
- IHS developed and now operates the Continuum of Humanist Education, the world's first interactive, online curriculum centered around humanist thought.
- Through our free weekly e-zine, Humanist Network News, IHS delivers news, humor, opinion and more to our supporters and subscribers.
- The IHS Public Policy department lobbies the New York legislature on issues of concern to freethinkers. As a founding member of the Secular Coalition for America, IHS has now brought this lobbying initiative to the U.S. Congress.
As a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit, the Institute for Humanist Studies relies on donations by supporters to fund all its work. All contributions to the Institute are tax-deductible in the United States.