Individual Membership Benefits

• FEN makes it easy for you to tell elected officials what you think. Our Legislative Action Center allows you to enter your zip code, and contact links for all of your elected State and Federal officials appear immediately. You can select one, several, or all, and at the click of a button tell your elected official exactly what you want to tell them.
• FEN is working for you while you concentrate on other things. We know you are busy dealing with other things during these tough economic times. We amplify your voice, via our personal visits to elected officials, the use of independent lobbyists, or by massive radio, television, email, or direct mail campaigns. We spread the word of government over-reaching to every American, so that they can understand and vote intelligently in local, state, and national elections.
• FEN connects you. You can join our on-line discussion groups, participate in our blogs, or follow us on FaceBook or Twitter. Upon request, we’ll connect you with like-minded FEN members who share an interest in the initiative or issue(s) that you care most about, including state-specific or community-specific issues.
• FEN reminds you. When you join, we’ll send you a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Open your copy of the Constitution, and take a few minutes to read the document that has made America the freest and most prosperous nation on earth. And then thank those who fought and died to defend it, and promise you’ll do your part to keep it alive.
• FEN listens to you. We maintain member-only discussion groups and blogs, and we read them to learn what is important to you. Frequent member polling allows us to be sure that we stay on-track and that our initiatives meet the needs of our membership. We read and respond to every question or comment from every member and use your input to help us do a better job representing your interests.
• FEN gives you the independent voice you are looking for. We do not accept grants, contracts, or any remuneration of any kind from any government or government-sponsored organization. We are entirely self-supported. Our initiatives and position papers are based solely on input from you and on the broad economic interests of the private sector.
• FEN tells you exactly what we are doing. FEN has all of our position papers on our website. You know exactly what we are doing. Ad-hoc activist groups often lack resources and a clear definition of their mission and initiatives and often have a political aim. FEN is non-partisan, and we spell out exactly what we represent. We have the resources to make sure that policymakers will not ignore the collective voice of our huge membership.
• FEN keeps you "in the know." Your membership supports full-time and contracted researchers to serve as "watchdogs" in the area of government spending, debt and deficits, as well as current or proposed legislation (on federal, state, and local levels). We provide this information to you via newsletters, email updates, and by allowing you unlimited access to our entire research database.
• FEN supports you. Your member benefits allow you to customize searches, updates, and reports that contain the specific information that you want. You’ll have a personalized research page, comprised of content from our ongoing and constantly updated research database, which will include topics and contents that you select.
• FEN makes sure you are not forgotten. We maintain relationships with major “think tanks” and provide data and information to them in order to ensure that the interests of individual citizens and small businesses are at the forefront of their research and policy recommendation efforts.
• FEN guarantees that we will do what we say we will do. Any time you determine that we are not fairly or adequately representing the economic interests of the private sector, we will, upon request, immediately refund the pro-rata portion of your annual dues or contribution.