The Phillips Foundation/The Young America's Foundation hosted the Standard's editor at a leadership conference in August, 2006.

Standard Editor, Amie Kieffer, and conservative talk radio personality, Walter Williams.

Standard Editor, Amie Kieffer, with Young America’s Foundation leader, Patrick X. Coyle.
Over 400 college students from across the country gathered in Washington D.C. at the Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference in August, 2006 to learn leadership skills from conservative speakers such as Bay Buchanan, John Stossel, Star Parker and Newt Gingrich.