Campus and Community Outreach
The Center for Inquiry isn't just a think tank - we're a world-wide movement of humanists, skeptics, freethinkers, and atheists, all working together at the grassroots level to advance scientific and secular values where we live.
From social events to educational lectures, community volunteering to national advocacy, CFI members are living proof that there are good, ethical alternatives to religious and paranormal worldviews.
CFI Events
From weekly book clubs and dinner socials to major lectures with prominent speakers, CFI's grassroots groups host dozens of activities every month. Major events can be found on this central calendar as part of our CFI On Campus website. For monthly branch activities, look for a group near you in these lists of U.S. and international CFI Branches.
The CFI Virtual Community:
When you can't make it to an event...
We know it's not always possible to make it to a CFI event, but that doesn't mean you have to miss out! CFI has a thriving online community where the free thinking never stops.
CFI's YouTube Channel
CFI has been granted a coveted YouTube nonprofit channel which is allowing us to make available hundreds of hours of CFI programming for FREE without the standard 10-minute-content-limit reloading frustrations. You'll find program listings on our own CFI Digital Media page or you can go directly to our CFI YouTube channel. If you'd like, you can subscribe to the CFI channel and you'll be notified every time we add a new program to the list.
CFI's Podcast: "Point of Inquiry"
Point of Inquiry is the premiere radio show and podcast of the Center for Inquiry featuring the leading minds of the day, including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, public intellectuals, social critics, and renowned entertainers. You can listen to the episodes on your computer, copy them to a CD for your car or home stereo, or download them to your iPod or MP3 player, in addition to hearing the show on a few dozen campus and community radio stations across North America.
This week on Point of Inquiry: William Little, The Psychic Tourist
CFI's Blog: "Freethinking"
Check out our new blog, Freethinking. Regular contributors include Ron Lindsay (CFI's new CEO), Tom Flynn (ED of CSH and editor of Free Inquiry magazine), Joe Nickell and Ben Radford (CSI Investigators Extraordinaire), and many others.
CFI's Discussion Forum
If you're looking for more of a two-way discussion, the CFI Forum is the place for you. You'll find lots of different topics where you can jump right in and join the free thinking and debating. Meet other people from all over the world who share your values and participate in CFI's "virtual community" online.
Outreach News & Announcements
- Special Event: CFI NYC "Celebrating 150 Years of Origin of Species", October 2009
- Special Event: CFI DC "Heavy Mental with Jamy Ian Swiss, Magician & Mentalist", October 2009
- Happy 10th Anniversary, CFI Indiana!, October 2009
- Richard Dawkins Book Tour, October 2009
- Special Event: CFI Canada Conference "The Intersection of Art & Science", October 2009
- Conference 10/22-24: CFI Amherst "Celebrate John Dewey's 150th Birthday", September 2009
- Bring Blasphemy Day and the Campaign for Free Expression to Your Campus, September 2009
- CSI Workshop 10/9-11: "UFOs - The Space-Age Mythology", September 2009
- CFI Institute in Indiana: "Religion Under Examination", September 2009
- 2009 Summer Leadership Conference a Grand Success, July 2009
- What We Did on Our Summer "Vacation", June 2009
- Yes, Virginia, There IS Science & Reason in Washington, April 2009
- Halting Marriage Discrimination in Indiana, April 2009
- Science Education: Raising the Bar in the Lone Star State, March 2009
- CFI NYC Gets a New Director, March 2009
- Richard Dawkins March Tour, February 2009
CFI On-line Store:
Show your support for science and reason!
CFI products give you a great opportunity to show others that science, reason, and secular values are important to you. Proceeds are used to help support CFI programming - and they're great conversation-starters, too!
Contact CFI Outreach
Questions? Comments? Want to sign up? Contact CFI Outreach at
grassroots [at] centerforinquiry [dot] net.
To become a member of CFI and add your voice to the call for science, reason, and secular values, please click here.
To make a donation to CFI to support our Outreach efforts in your community and around the world, please click here.
