Program areas at Heartland Institute
Publications: research, writing, and distribution of publications on public policy issues, in print and online. Heartland produced print and digital issues of two newspapers (environment & climate news, health care news) and digital versions of budget & tax news, school reform news, and rights, justice & culture news; for a total of 2,978 articles. In addition, The department produced one print quarterly newsletter (The heartlander) and nine weekly or biweekly email newsletters (climate change weekly, The leaflet, Heartland weekly, budget & tax news, environment & climate news , health care news, school reform news, stopping socialism, and life, liberty, property). Heartland has 13 websites, more than 480,000 fans of its facebook page, more than 78,000 twitter followers, and more than 95,000 subscribers on youtube.
Heartland hosted 13 conferences on climate change and two america first energy conferences since 2008 attended by more than 5,000 people.
Heartland representatives appeared in print, online, or on broadcast 4,957 times, reaching a print audience of 197.6 million readers. Heartland's podcasts were downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, and our videos got 3.5 million views.
Government relations: publications and events geared toward educating and informing local, state, and national elected officials about public policy issues. Heartland participated in conferences sponsored by The american legislative exchange council and testified before legislative committees in multiple states.expense: $445,250stopping socialism: stopping socialism is a project launched in 2018. Owned by justin haskins, co-director of The socialism research center at The Heartland Institute and The author of The amazon bestseller socialism is evil: The moral case against marx's radical dream (2018). Expense: $344,122