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More than a year Almost two years after the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] was founded in Illinois in 1973, Weyrich took over its operations and moved the group to Washington, DC, co-housing it with the Heritage Foundation, which he founded. He was not a founder of ALEC, but he directed it in the late 1970s and played a key role in advising its operations in its first two decades.
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'''Paul M. Weyrich '''[http://www.freecongress.org/about/pweyrich.asp] was a founder of the [[Heritage Foundation]] with Ed Fuelner and with the financial support of rightwing millionaire Joseph Coors, of the Coors beer fortune.
He was also the founder and president of the [[Free Congress Research and Education Foundation]] from 1977 to 2002 and continued to help lead that organization until his death. For a brief period, from 1989 to 1996, Weyrich led the [[Kreible Institute]] of the [[Free Congress Foundation]], which focused on former Eastern bloc nations.
