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Members of the AAI board bring their passions to work with them. They are passionate about a more open and rational world. They are passionate about freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, about freedom of religion and freedom from religion. And they are passionate about the safety of atheists wherever they are in the world.
Every year at this time we have important decisions to make. How can we direct our resources, our expertise and our money to impact the things we are passionate about? We have developed a process to assess competing options to arrive at a plan for next year. The process takes account of benefits, costs and risks.
If you work for a large company, you probably have a similar annual planning process. What sets our process apart is the effort we make to ditch the politics and replace it with evidence and analysis. This is where our collective passion becomes a trump card. We aim to make the process not about us, but about you.
We start by collecting campaign ideas from board members and from AAI affiliates to arrive at a long list of possible campaigns. This has already started but will continue through mid-December. If you have an idea for a campaign, please let me know, vicepresident@atheistalliance.org. Your idea may be the one that makes all the difference.
Our campaigns usually are one of two types: they either seek to promote critical thinking, important freedoms and to normalize atheism, or they campaign against the repression of atheists or other abuses of religious power.
Once the long list is completed, we go through a methodical process to eliminate the less effective ideas and end up with a program of work that matches our resources and will take us furthest towards our goals.
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