Atlas is pleased to announce that it has selected the Free Market Foundation of South Africa as the recipient of the 2010 Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty.
From the Press Release:
FMF was established at a time when South Africa’s Prime Minister John Vorster was steadily increasing intervention in the economy in preparation for the [...]

Fundación Paraguaya, winner of Atlas’s Templeton Freedom Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009, has been racking up awards for its development of the San Francisco Agriculture School – a financially self-sufficient educational experience for transforming poor youth into successful entrepreneurs.  The School runs 17 small-scale, on-campus, farming enterprises that train students not only how to [...]

In this time of great turmoil for the nation of Haiti, we thought it would be prudent to offer a few organizations who are doing good work  in the country.

Deep Springs International, a former Atlas TFA Winner, has long been active in Haiti, focused on bringing sustainable clean water to the country. They focus on [...]

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. ( [...]

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Funding the Next Generation of Slovenian Freedom Fighters
By Alejandro Chafuen

I’m grateful that totalitarians have not been able to perfect their art of coercion and tyranny. They build walls, they strengthen their borders, but some of their victims will always escape to tell the story. Such is the refreshing case of Bojan Ribnikar and [...]

Atlas heartily welcomes the newest member of the Atlas Global Initiative family of websites, Doimoi.org (Reform and Opening).  Doimoi.org is a Vietnamese-language platform offering reviews and commentary on the critical issues affecting Vietnam and its future.  It advocates the free exchange of ideas, the values of the free enterprise system, the rule of law, and [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.