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 [...]

Take a look at this latest project in Spain. Objectivismo.org is a Spanish language website focused upon bringing the work and ideas of Ayn Rand to a wider audience in Latin America.  The website offers articles and videos covering current  issues, pop culture, and the ideas of Objectivism. Take a look, and spread the word [...]

Happy New Year to  all of our friends! Many of you  have already had the opportunity to read Atlas’s Year in Review, outlining Atlas’s events and programs over the course of 2009, if you haven’t please take a look below:
Atlas Year in Review 2009
We’ve received several exciting year end reports from some very new [...]

Cristián Larroulet, director of Libertad y Desarrollo (Liberty and Development), was recently chosen by 500 of his peers as 2009’s top economist in Chile [link in Spanish].  After finishing his education at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chicago, Larroulet served as chief of staff for Chilean Finance Minister Hernán Büchi (1985-89) [...]

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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It’s been two weeks since OrdemLivre.org’s last seminar for our Liberdade na Estrada [Freedom on the Road] project (we’ve posted about it here). We’ve spent this time getting in touch with students from the 17 universities we visited to make sure our work there develops into a long lasting, fruitful cooperation.
Our purpose is to help [...]

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 [...]

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.

Diogo Costa, editor of Atlas Global Initiative’s OrdemLivre.org, gives an update, below, on the 17 university speaking tour that ends this weekend in Brazil.
For the past 23 days, OrdemLivre.org has been crossing Brazil in an unprecedented educational enterprise: to present an introduction to the philosophy of freedom to university students throughout the country.
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