Membership
Are you interested in joining the DCFR? By joining the Denver Council, you will be on a two-way street of foreign policy influence and information. You will be afforded opportunity to converse analytically about the issues and problems in American foreign policy, in an atmosphere of confidentiality and objectivity, and to be part of the great national debates about America’s policies and purposes.
Applications to join the DCFR are welcome. To join, one must submit a boil or c.v. and statement of interest. The biographical information and statement are circulated to a nominations review panel and, upon action by that panel, the nominee is invited to join.
To initiate the process of joining, contact the council in care of the Graduate School of International Studies, 2201 South Gaylord Street, Denver, CO 80208.
Members are drawn from throughout the professions in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Membership is capped at 125 persons.
Ongoing activities of the council.
The primary activity of the council is its dinner meetings, normally held in Denver at a venue such as the Denver Country Club. Ten such meetings are held each year. Some meetings are held in collaboration with like-minded organizations, such as the Denver World Affairs Council.
The council, usually in cooperation with the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies, stages one or two day-long conferences per year.
The American Councils on Foreign Relations, of which DCFR is an institutional member, holds an annual conference of ACFR members in Washington,
The council has two educational outreach programs: a travel grant to an undergraduate at Colorado State University for purposes of study abroad; and a grant to a rural Colorado high or middle school for participation in the annual World Affairs Challenge at the University of Denver’s Center For Teaching International Relations.
In development
Planning is under way to increase our capability to prepare and present studies, provide a more ambitious website, and eventually to open an office to service all of our programs in a professional way. We believe that the council, as a respected non-profit of long standing, is uniquely positioned to highlight, inform, and voice the foreign policy perspectives of the Rocky Mountain region.