For Our Grandchildren

For Our Grandchildren is a nonprofit organization that advocates social security reform. The group is a project of the American Institute for Full Employment.

For Our Grandchildren's describes itself as a, "bipartisan organization working to: fix social security, lift the unfair burden from our kids and grandkids, and stop Congress from spending our social security taxes."[1] The group seeks to raise awareness on the issues our nation faces regarding social security and promotes solutions in favor of personal retirement accounts.

For Our Grandchildren is a member of the Coalition for the Modernization and Protection of America's Social Security, which promotes Social Security privatization.

Personnel

• Leanne Abdnor, President, was a member of the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, and founder of the Alliance for Worker Retirement Security
• James Hamilton, National Director, who has worked at the Heritage Foundation and Economic Security 2000. He also served as legislative assistant to Charles W. Stenholm (D-TX).
• Tim Penny, Chairman of the For Our Grandchildren National Advisory Board, former conservative Democratic Congressman from Minnesota. Penny served as a Commissioner on the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. [2]

National Advisory Board

• Tim Penny, Chairman, Former Member of Congress (D-MN)
• Leanne Abdnor, Founding Director, Alliance for Worker Retirement Security
• Ted Abram, Executive Director, American Institute for Full Employment
• Eloise Anderson, Director, Program for the American Family, The Claremont Institute
• Sam Beard, Founder, Economic Security 2000
• John Cogan, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; former Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• Bill Frenzel, Former Member of Congress (R-MN)
• Jack Gargan, Former Chairman, United States Reform Party
• Mike Gravel, Former United States Senator (D-AK)
• Brian Keane, Executive Director, Smartpower, Inc.
• Robert Keefe, Former Executive Director, Democratic National Committee
• Jack Kemp, Co-Chairman, FreedomWorks
• Charles Jarvis, President, USANext
• Herbert I. London, President, the Hudson Institute
• Jim Martin, President, 60 Plus Seniors Organization
• Derrick Max, Executive Director, Alliance for Worker Retirement Security
• Steve Moore, President, Free Enterprise Fund
• Heidi Neel, Senior Fellow, American Institute for Full Employment
• Gerald L. Parsky, Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
• Richard Parsons, CEO of AOL/TimeWarner; Co-Chairman, President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
• Nancy M. Pfautenauer, President, Independent Women's Forum
• Jose Pinera, former Chilean Minister of Labor; architect of the reformed Chilean Social Security Program
• Robert W. Poole, Jr., Founding Chairman, Reason Foundation
• Mario Rodriguez, President, Hispanic Business Roundtable
• Thomas R. Saving, Public Trustee of Social Security and Medicare;
• Edward Stuckey, Executive Director, The Committee for Good Common Sense
• Michael Tanner, Director, Project on Social Security Choice, Cato Institute
• Jose Trujillo, President, Bay View Funding
• Rick Swartz, President, Swartz and Associates
• William Shipman, Co-Chairman, Project on Social Security Choice, Cato Institute
• Phillip N. Truluck, Executive Vice President, the Heritage Foundation
• Fidel Vargas, Member, 1994-96 Advisory Council on Social Security[3]

Conact Information

For Our Grandchildren
2636 Biehn Street
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Phone: 541-273-6734
Fax: 541-273-6496
Website: http://www.forourgrandchildren.org/

SourceWatch links

• Coalition for the Modernization and Protection of America's Social Security
• Alliance for Worker Retirement Security
• U.S. Social Security privatization

External links

• Edmund L. Andrews, "Clamor Grows in the Privatization Debate," New York Times, December 17, 2004.
• http://www.forourgrandchildren.org