The following announcement was issued by the Center for Inquiry on December 31, 2016:
At the beginning of 2016, the Center for Inquiry (CFI) and the Richard Daw kins Foundation for Reason & Science (RDFRS) began a partnership combining the people, programs, and resources of these two extraordinary organizations to better advance our shared mission for reason, science, and secularism. Throughout the year, CFI and RDFRS have worked with passion and purpose to combat religion’s incursions into government, to expose pseudoscientific boondoggles, to support global freedom of expression, and to foster strong communities for secularists, skeptics, humanists, and other nonbelievers.
All this while, behind the scenes the final pieces were being set into place to formalize this partnership, a complicated process that took significant time and effort.