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Focus on the Family company history timeline

1992

Learn to Discern: Help for a Generation at Riskseminars begin; led by Youth Culture Specialist Bob DeMoss, they are eventually held in more than 300 United States cities and also in Canada and Germany; more than 100,000 parents ultimately attend; seminar is released on video in 1992.

1997

First Internet presence established on America Online; full website launched July 1997 (www.family.org).

1999

Renewing the Heart conference debuts to a sold-out crowd of over 19,000 in Nashville, TN (Final conference is held November 1999 in Tampa, FL).

2003

In 2003, Donald P. Hodel became president and chief executive officer, tasked with the day-to-day operations.

2005

In March 2005, Hodel retired and Jim Daly, formerly the Vice President in charge of Focus on the Family's International Division, assumed the role of president and chief executive officer.

2008

In November 2008, the organization announced that it was eliminating 202 jobs, representing 18 percent of its workforce.

2009

In February 2009, Dobson resigned his chairmanship.

2010

He left Focus on the Family in early 2010, and subsequently founded Family Talk as a non-profit organization and launched a new broadcast that began airing nationally on May 3, 2010.

2014

The Focus Leadership Institute opens its doors to college juniors and seniors (Final on-campus session is held the summer of 2014).

2016

Focus on the Family Action, a cultural action organization legally separate from Focus on the Family, is formed (later renamed CitizenLink and becomes Family Policy Alliance in 2016).

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