and boosted Heritage's popularity. Now the focus was on easily accessed, timely, concise research that could fit in a briefcase. A further fillip was the foundation's publishing of policy reports and papers ahead of related legislation, rather than the established think-tank practice of waiting until it had been passed. As Feulner related to The Washington Examiner, "It doesn't do us any good to have great ideas if we are not out there peddling our products." Within a year and a half of Feulner becoming president, Heritage's budget had increased to $2.5 million with a donor pool of about 120,000. The institution has around 250 employees and annual income of about $80 million and a donor pool of about 600,000. In January 2013, Feulner published the column "Economic Freedom on the Wane" to review the results of the annual Index of Economic Freedom, which has been an ongoing joint project of The Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation since 1995. The index measures individual countries' policies in the broad areas of rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency, and open markets. Retiring as chair of the foundation in 2013, Feulner briefly resumed the role in 2017 following the election of Donald Trump. Other roles Feulner was president and treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society in 2014. He has served as a trustee and as the chairman of the board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He has also been a member of the board of the National Chamber Foundation and of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, as well as of the board of trustees and a life trustee of Regis University, his undergraduate alma mater. He became a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and held its chair in 2021. Among other executive and advisory roles, Feulner was president of the Philadelphia Society 1982–1983 and 2013–2014, and is a past director of the Council for National Policy, the Acton Institute, and George Mason University. Feulner served as a member of the Gingrich–Mitchell Congressional UN Reform Task Force (2005) and of the Meltzer Commission from 1999–2000. He was vice chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, known as the Kemp Commission, from 1995 to 1996. He also was the chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (1982–91), a consultant for domestic policy to U.S. president Ronald Reagan, and an adviser to several