| May 1988 | The B. F. Skinner Foundation is formed with the support of B. F. Skinner. Julie S. Vargas becomes the President of the Foundation. | |
| March 15, 1989 | The Foundation receives 501-C3 tax exempt status. | |
| August 1990 | B. F. Skinner’s literary estate passes to the Foundation. | |
| Spring 1991 | The Foundation brings Skinner’s classic, The Behavior of Organisms, back into print. | |
| Fall 1992 | The Foundation makes available Verbal Behavior with new forewords by Jack Michael and E. A. Vargas. | |
| Spring 1995 | The Foundation reprints Keller and Schoenfeld’s Principles of Psychology with forewords by Murray Sidman and Rick Shull, and with the addition of Supplementary Notes that Keller wrote for his course at Columbia University. | |
| January 1996 | The Foundation launches a website through Bob Allan’s Lafayette College account. | |
| Spring 1997 | The Foundation republishes Schedules of Reinforcement with a foreword by Carl D. Cheney and a second foreword by W.H. Morse and P. B. Dews. | |
| April 1998 | The Foundation purchases the domain name “bfskinner.org.” | |
| Spring 1999 | The Foundation reprints a new edition of Cumulative Record that combines the three original editions and adds two more articles. This Definitive Edition includes a foreword by Victor G. Laties and A. Charles Catania. | |
| Spring 2001 | The Foundation makes available a downloadable interactive programmed instruction version of Holland and Skinner’s The Analysis of Behavior free to the public downloadable for Windows computers. | |
| Spring 2002 | The Foundation receives the copyright to Beyond Freedom and Dignity and arranges with Hackett Publishing Company to reprint the book. | |
| Spring 2003 | The Technology of Teaching is brought back into print with new forewords by Beatrice H. Barrett and James G. Holland. | |
| 2004 | International liaisons are established outside the United States. | |
| 2005 | The Foundation moves to Cambridge, MA and initiates a student research awards program through regional behavior analysis associations, beginning with the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis. | |
| A quarterly newsletter, which will later become Operants magazine, is launched. | ||
| 2006 | The Foundation forms an Archival Committee to gather and preserve historical materials related to Skinner and his work. The Foundation receives several boxes of programmed instruction from Pace Learning Systems. | |
| 2007 | The Foundation receives Skinner’s Verbal Summator (from the University of Minnesota), a copy of FBI files on B. F. Skinner, and a number of video tapes featuring Skinner. CalABA gives its first B. F. Skinner Foundation student award. | |
| 2008 | For proper preservation, the Foundation begins transferring Skinner’s original 16 mm and 35mm films to the Harvard University Film Archives, retaining any copyrights held. | |
| 2009 | The Foundation website is redesigned so that it can be updated in-house. | |
| Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) offers B. F. Skinner Foundation scholarships. | ||
| 2010 | The Foundation moves into the center of Harvard Square. Approves use of name for Etablissment Experimental B. F. Skinner, a school for children with disabilities in Yerville, Normandy, France. BBC program on History of Science airs with a section on B. F. Skinner. The Foundation begins Institutional Support program and “Friends of the Foundation.” | |
| 2011 | The Foundation establishes a Facebook page for “Burrhus Frederic Skinner.” Web additions include new videos and a free download of Chapter One of Skinner reading Walden Two. Video of pigeons guiding a missile is added. The video is requested for a DVD version of Weird Weapons that originally aired in 2006. | |
| 2012 | Harvard History of Science Department requests B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Summator files for an exhibit on projective tests. David Freedman spends a morning at the Foundation office for an article to appear in the Atlantic Monthly. The BBC requests footage and photographs for a program. | |
| 2014 | The Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary. E-book editions of Verbal Behavior, Contingencies of Reinforcement, and Principles of Psychology by Keller and Shoenfeld are published. Website is redesigned and the quarterly newsletter becomes Operants magazine. | |
| 2015-2018 | The scope and reach of the Foundation’s activities are going through the explosive growth period. Operants subscriber base reaches 12,000. The Foundation funds the creation of an online state-of-the-art interactive version of Holland and Skinner’s The Analysis of Behavior. The Foundation converts all of its printed book catalogue into e-book formats (epub, mobi, and PDF). All PDF versions of the books are available through the Foundation’s website as name-your-price products, with the minimum price set for as low as $0. The Foundation’s awards for young researches are distributed through Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy (BABAT), California Association for Behavior Analysis (CalABA), Division 25 of the American Psychological Association (APA), European Association for Behavior Analysis (EABA), and The Florida Association for Behavior Analysis (FABA). In cooperation with Harvard University, the Foundation hosts international researchers in the field of behavior analysis: Two Brazilian PhD candidates spend 6 months in Cambridge, working at the Foundation and in the Harvard archives, supervised by Dr. Julie S. Vargas. Scientists from Austria, Norway, Spain, and USA (to name a few countries) conduct research in the Foundation’s archives. More than ever, the Foundation is busy granting permissions for translations of Skinner’s works and for the use of Skinner’s texts, photographs, and audio and video recordings to authors and filmmakers from around the world. | |
| 2019 | The Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary by launching a new series of reprints, Skinner for the 21st Century. Each book in the series features a larger format, redesigned covers, and additional material. | |
| 2020 | Lisa Kristina Tillman becomes the President of the Foundation. Julie S. Vargas becomes the Chair of the Archival Committee and the Chief Science Officer. The Foundation launches the online community (community.bfskinner.org) and starts the production of original multimedia content for the new platform. | |
| 2021 | Joyce Tu becomes the President of the Foundation. Foundation office at Harvard Square is relocated to One Mifflin Place. Operants Article of the Quarter, an interactive feature that allows readers to ask questions to authors of selected articles, is introduced on the community website. An inaugural Skinner Session, a live online conference (a CE event), takes place. | |
| 2022 | Foundation receives a grant to organize and digitize B. F. Skinner’s archives. Professional archivists from The Winthrop Group, Inc. catalogue and organize the entire collection. | |
| 2023 | Archival project continues with the selection of a digital asset management system (DAMS) followed by scanning and uploading archival documents and images to the DAMS. | |
| 2025 | Judah Axe becomes the President of the Foundation. |