With a budget of US$ 23 million and assets worth US$ 192 million the
Among the 138 corporate donors are: Bell Atlantic,
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Based in Washington D.C. the AEI is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the "foundations of freedom" - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense. The Institute publishes dozens of books and hundreds of articles and reports each year, and an influential policy magazine, The American Enterprise. AEI publications are distributed widely to government officials and legislators, business executives, journalists, and academics. The Institute is a nonprofit organization supported primarily by grants and contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals.
Formally European Recovery Program (April 1948 - December 1951), U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European nations in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. The United States feared that the poverty, unemployment, and dislocation of the postwar period were reinforcing the appeal of communist parties to voters in western Europe. On June 5, 1947, in an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George C. Marshall advanced the idea of a European self-help program, to be financed by the United States.