Apply Now for a Templeton Freedom Award

Atlas is now accepting applications for  the Templeton Freedom Awardstfalogo_rgb201.

The Awards are given to outstanding projects carried out by institutes in the following categories :

  • Solutions to Poverty – recognizing outstanding research and innovative projects addressing how sound economic and legal institutions can solve problems of poverty.
  • Ethics & Values – recognizing outstanding research and innovative projects concerning the relationship between free enterprise and the ethics, values, and character that sustain it.
  • Student Outreach – recognizing outstanding work by think tanks to improve education about freedom.
  • Social Entrepreneurship – recognizing outstanding research and innovative projects on social entrepreneurship to benefit the poor, increased cooperation among think tanks, the private sector organizations for the free society; and general building of a sound, strong, civil society.
  • Initiative in Public Relations – recognizing non-profit research institute that have demonstrated outstanding success in effectively communicating the ideas of a free society.
  • Innovative Media Award – recognizing outstanding think tank projects that use film or multimedia technologies to promote the principles of a free society.
  • Award for Special Achievement by a University-Based Center – recognizing outstanding projects and achievement by university-based centers in promoting liberty.
  • Award for Special Achievement by a Young Institute – recognizing out-standing performance by an institute that is less than five years old.  One winner will be chosen from a developed country, and another one from a more difficult part of the world.

Learn more about each of these categories here, and submit your applications here.

The application Deadline is May 31st, and winners will be announced at Atlas’s Annual Freedom Dinner on November 9th.

View last year’s winners here.

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