Your generosity sustains the Claremont Institute’s scholars and core work, including its fellowships and publications. In recognition of that support, donors who meet annual giving levels are welcomed into the Claremont Institute Societies.
Society membership reflects annual giving and offers opportunities for engagement with Claremont’s work throughout the year. These opportunities are extended selectively and with discretion, reflecting both the seriousness of that work and the varied ways our supporters choose to engage.
All recognition and communications are opt-in. You can adjust preferences at any time. To adjust recognition and benefits preferences, please email donate@claremont.org.
Thomas Jefferson Society
$1,000–$4,999
- Invitations to select Claremont events (in-person or virtual)
- Access to curated core texts and foundational works
- Recognition as a Thomas Jefferson Society member in select Claremont communications (opt-in)
James Madison Society
$5,000–$14,999
- All Jefferson Society benefits
- Invitations to national events
- Early previews of select research and publications
- A dedicated stewardship liaison for personalized engagement
- Recognition as a James Madison Society member in select Claremont communications (opt-in)
Abraham Lincoln Society
$15,000–$24,999
- All Madison Society benefits
- Exclusive invitation to Claremont’s Alumni Retreat
- Invitation to attend Claremont’s Henry Salvatori Prize Dinner
- Early access to forthcoming Fellowship program announcements
- Recognition as an Abraham Lincoln Society member in select Claremont communications (opt-in)
Alexander Hamilton Society
$25,000–$49,999
- All Lincoln Society benefits
- Invitation to small-group discussions with senior scholars (invitation-only)
- Priority seating at designated Claremont events
- Recognition as an Alexander Hamilton Society member in select Claremont communications (opt-in)
John Quincy Adams Society
$50,000–$99,999
- All Hamilton Society benefits
- Priority access to private briefings with senior fellows
- Opportunities for deeper engagement with Claremont’s publications and editorial leadership (by invitation)
- Personalized engagement with a senior Claremont director
- Recognition as a John Quincy Adams Society member in select Claremont communications (opt-in)
President’s Society
$100,000+
- All Adams Society benefits
- Tailored access to Claremont leadership and senior fellows
- Private, off-the-record briefings with select Claremont leaders
- Invitations to exclusive donor receptions and priority seating at major Claremont events
- Periodic private gatherings with the President and invited guests
- Recognition as a President’s Society member in Claremont select communications (opt-in)
Our Programs
Publius, Lincoln, John Marshall, Speechwriters, and Sheriffs Fellowships
We educate the best and most promising young writers, lawyers, activists, academics, entrepreneurs, and public servants through our annual Publius, Lincoln, John Marshall, Speechwriters, and Sheriffs Fellowship programs, engaging this next generation of conservative leaders in a life-long study of the true principles of government and their application to today’s policies. Each fellowship is designed for a different audience, but all are equal in their intense curriculum of daily seminars and relaxed evening symposia examining the historical arc leading from the American Founding to the progressivism of today.
The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (CCJ)
The mission of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence is simple but vital: to restore the constitutional protections created by our Founding Fathers. This means fighting to uphold the Constitution’s guarantees of natural rights as well as working to restore the Constitution’s structural protections of our liberty, such as the separation of powers, the non-delegation doctrine, and enumerated powers. The Center undertakes litigation to place Originalist, natural law-based arguments in front of state and federal courts in strategic cases that will have an impact far beyond the immediate issue. Our involvement in these cases ranges from direct representation of clients to compelling, painstakingly-researched amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs, from the lower appellate courts to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Claremont Review of Books (CRB)
The Claremont Review of Books, our flagship publication, is recognized as the source above all others for penetrating analysis and clarifying perspective in political matters. Its aim is to reinvigorate the public mind by returning to the first principles of a distinctively American conservatism, and to elevate the public discourse through a serious examination of the ideas, statesmanship, and cultural currents that have shaped the political and social life of America and the West. Under the leadership of Founding Editor Charles Kesler and some of the most impressive and respected minds writing on politics and policy today, the CRB has been called a graduate education in itself. Drawing from the deep well of American political thought and Western civilization, each issue takes time to read and digest. We seek to elevate the public discourse, and in our best moments, we have succeeded.
The American Mind (TAM)
An online-only publication and podcast dedicated to the ideas that drive our political life, The American Mind brings in audiences looking for deeper discussion and consideration of the ideas behind the news cycle. While eschewing the deceptive pandering which many online publications engage in to attract views, it plunges into the cut-and-thrust of America’s political crisis with more immediacy and energetic expression than is possible in the CRB’s quarterly format. The continuing shake-up of what was once called the conservative movement has revealed a great deal of ruin, with signs of repentance in some quarters and a turn to perniciousness in others. The American Mind is dedicated to driving the reformation of the political agenda at the highest level by applying founding principles to regime-level questions about governance, citizenship, nationhood, and statecraft in a digital age.
The Center for the American Way of Life (CAWL)
The Center for the American Way of Life works to contest the Left’s capture (and the conservative establishment’s surrender) of the country’s major institutions—ranging from the political bureaucracy, universities, and K-12 education to the press, Big Tech, and Fortune 500 companies. CAWL’s goal is to disrupt the Left’s unified front, and boldly attack their doctrine of “wokeism”—a toxic stew of Marxist-adjacent ideologies that is also an outgrowth of America’s flawed civil rights regime. This includes radical feminism, the identity politics of “anti-racism” (which is actually racism), and globalism.
Lectures and Conferences
Across the country, the Claremont Institute provides the scholarship and platforms necessary to fill in the gaps to help Americans understand the ideas that birthed our great nation—ideas that provide the only sure path to reform and the preservation of the American way of life. Since opening our Washington, DC office in 2016, we have hosted a wide array of events for alumni of our Fellowship programs, as well as policymakers, members of the press, and the public at large. The Claremont Institute also continues to serve as a bastion of distinctively American conservatism on the West Coast, where it is sorely needed. In addition to debates, panel discussions, book launches, and private salons, we also host our Annual Gala and our Constitution Day event each year.
Continuing Education and Career-Building Assistance for Fellows
The Claremont Institute hosts a wide array of events for alumni of its Fellowship programs, policymakers, engaged citizens, and members of the press on the east coast. These alumni events keep our Publius, Lincoln, John Marshall, and Speechwriters Fellows engaged with Claremont’s work long after their Fellowship programs have ended. Whether we are hosting a formal dinner and discussion or a more casual get-together, our alumni events provide Fellows with a chance to continue their education in the principles of the Founding and their application. By bringing our Fellowship alumni together regularly in our nation’s capital, we also facilitate continued networking and collaboration between friends and peers working to restore limited government and constitutionalism.
