Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs

Our Story

The Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs was founded in 1980 by broadly representative and distinguished community leaders and is dedicated to educating citizens about foreign affairs.

By addressing lectures, seminars, discussions, and studies to established and developing leadership; international professionals; the attentive citizenry; youth and not-yet attentive members of the public the Council helps to develop effective citizenship, professional sophistication, and a more international milieu within the greater Baltimore community. The Council is particularly relevant to Baltimore which, as a major port and multi-ethnic city, has special interests in international affairs in addition to those occasioned by national citizenship. The Council is a private, not-for-profit, non-partisan public service association that maintains an open membership and does not take positions on issues. Like its council counterparts in more than seventy communities across the nation, the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs is a purely local organization in programming, governance, and support.

Such councils are necessary to a community's educational system, since the American system of limited government leaves certain essential educational responsibilities to private associations.

The Council welcomes all with an interest in international affairs to join the Council. Our programs are always interesting and address today's most pressing international issues. Just ask our members!

Membership, which entitles one to free entry to all programs, typically sixteen each year, is $60 annually for an individual or $90 for a family. Membership payments can be made by check through the mail, at one of our events with cash or a check, or electronically via our website,www.bcfausa.org, under the membership tab.