Apply for the Fisher Award by December 1st!
Atlas is now accepting applications for the 2010 Fisher Memorial Awards for publications. Submit your organization’s book, paper, website or article with a copyright date of 2008 or 2009, for the opportunity to win $10,000. Submissions may be made in any language, but the letter of nomination MUST be in English. For more rules and [...]
Event Report:Freedom Dinner & Templeton Freedom Award Conference 2009
Thank you to all who joined us at this year’s Freedom Dinner and Templeton Freedom Award Conference. Below, you will find presentations from many of our speakers-audio and video of the talks will be available over the course of the week as well, be sure to check this page often. Freedom Dinner 2009 photos. ( [...]
Atlas’s Sound Money Project is Moving Forward
With the help of Atlas’s sound money fellows, Tom Duncan and John Robinson (Ph.D. econ students at George Mason University), the Sound Money Project at Atlas is starting to attract attention. Several state and national nonprofit organizations (the likes of the Pacific Research Institute, FEE, and the Illinois Policy Institute) have been contacted in regard [...]
Freedom Dinner and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Last night, we celebrated the end of Communist rule in East Berlin with the Fall of the Berlin Wall. We’ll post video and audio of the dinner and the conference later this week, but please, take a look at the tribute video we have put together to commemorate the occasion.
Freedom Dinner and TFA Conference Next Week
We at Atlas are busily preparing for our annual Freedom Dinner and Templeton Freedom Awards Conference which takes place on Monday and Tuesday of next week. This year, we’ll not only be celebrating the 2009 TFA winners, but also the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. This exciting date in history marked [...]
Apply Now for Think Tank MBA
If we can change the climate of ideas, politics will follow. If we can sway the hearts and minds of citizens of the world, freedom will reign. This premise is behind the aspirations of virtually everyone who is attracted to the world of free-market think tanks. But good ideas do not sell themselves. To have [...]
Sweden: Never forget the evils of communism
The Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism of Sweden is awarded the Initiative in Public Relations Templeton Freedom Award for its approach in communicating the essential facts about communism and the consequences of communist ideology and rule.
Paraguay: Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
Fundación Paraguaya (Paraguay) is the winner of the Social Entrepreneurship Templeton Freedom Award for its San Francisco Agricultural School, a financially self-sufficient school for transforming poor youth into successful entrepreneurs.
Microwork for the next billion
Samasource, a non-profit based in San Francisco is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards for its work training small businesses in poor parts of Africa, and linking them to profitable opportunities working for U.S. clients.
USA: Ethics and Character are Preconditions of a Free and Entrepreneurial Society
The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford College in Illinois is awarded the University-based Templeton Freedom Award for launching six courses focusing on the ethical infrastructure of entrepreneurship and the preconditions of the free society in ethics.
Chile: Changing National Mores to Social Appreciation and Recognition of Entrepreneurship
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards for conducting and disseminating high quality research on entrepreneurship and improving curricula and teaching methods.
India: Fund Students, not Schools!
The Centre for Civil Society in India is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards 2009 for its School Choice Campaign (SCC), operating in seven states to promote an education system in India where all children get quality education of their choice.
USA: Effectively Delivering the Message of Freedom to American Schools
The Free to Choose Network (United States) is a winner of a Templeton Freedom Award in the category Innovative Media for its website, Izzit.org, which produces its own videos, re-purposes other videos, and offers them to teachers across the country.
USA: Hold Government Transparent and Accountable
The Sam Adams Alliance (United States) is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards for its initiative, Sunshine Review (SunshineReview.org), a website devoted to issues of government transparency and accountability.
Slovakia: Promoting the morality of free markets
The Conservative Institute (Slovakia) is awarded the prize for bringing diverse and qualified thinkers to Slovakia to participate in lectures on economics and ethics since 2005.
Poland: Mythology of Greenhouse effect: How eco-terrorists, big business and politicians manipulate the public
The Globalization Institute in Poland sparked a national debate questioning the science of global warming by publishing “The Mythology of the Greenhouse Effect,” right before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Poznań.
South Africa: The Fight against Unemployment
The Free Market Foundation of South Africa is recognized by the Templeton Freedom Awards 2009 for their book “Jobs for the Jobless” denouncing the high legal restrictions on job security that has led to massive unemployment.
Georgia: Changing a Country – from Poverty to Wealth
The New Economic School in the Republic of Georgia is a winner of the Templeton Freedom Awards for their efforts to lift the country from poverty by using political advocacy, consultancy and educational meetings with politicians to shape the debate to focus on pro-growth policies.
Brazil: Promoting Democracy, Market Economy and the Rule of Law
Instituto Millenium of Brazil is awarded the Young Institute award for its impressive early record of achievement, attracting more than 1000 students to two forums at universities, placing more than 100 articles in newspapers and magazines and over 30 videos online, publishing two books, and developing a weekly newsletter with more than 5000 subscribers.
International Thursday, October
On October 15th, Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thursday event Speakers this month included Eudardo Massieu- CEDICE (Venezuela), “A Campaign for Liberty” Bernhard Adamec- Europainstitut (Austria), “The Free Market Movement in Austria“ Victoria Stokova- Herrnando de Soto Fellow, Property Rights Alliance, “International Property Rights Index“ Audio of the event is available below.
TFA09 – USA: A nation that doesn’t educate in liberty will not long preserve it
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is recognized for its Campus Freedom Network, a grassroots effort to educate students and make them active partners in restoring liberty to campus life and to create a nationwide network of student advocates.
TFA09 – Peru: Transforming knowledge of entrepreneurship into real-life experience
Institute Invertir (Peru) is recognized in the Student Outreach category for its program bringing over 200 top-performing university students from all the regions of Peru to learn how to set up a business and run it efficiently.
Announcing Winners of the 2009 Templeton Freedom Awards
For Immediate Release October 19, 2009 Contact: Atlas Economic Research Foundation, 202-449-8449 Thinks Tanks from 12 Countries Honored for Contributions to Public Debates on Free Enterprise and Individual Liberty WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced the winners of the 2009 Templeton Freedom Awards for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, the largest international [...]
Atlas/Sagamore Conference, October 23rd – There is Still Time to Register!
We are a week away from what promises to be a most interesting conference in Indianapolis. The speakers are a great draw for this event. Each is a trailblazer in their respective fields! With the theme, “The Advance of Liberty: Challenges and Opportunities Around the Globe,” participants of this Atlas/Sagamore co-sponsored conference will have the [...]
