The American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known by the anaacronym ALEC, is a secretive, right-wing stealth lobbying organization established in 1975. It is a forum to allow the corporate members who fund the organization to write model laws that favor their agenda. ALEC meetings are an opportunity for the corporate leaders to meet and provide large campaign donations to favorable member legislators. Member legislators then submit these model bills under their own name to their various bodies as if they had written the bills themselves. The organization escapes anti-lobbying laws by terming their influence as "Education."