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 [...]

Blogging has been light here over the holidays, but rest assured, we’ll get back to promoting global think tank work on a regular basis soon! For now, I’d like you offer a few exciting highlights from think tanks across the United States:

The Fraser Institute, in Canada, gets a new CEO, Dr. Brett Skinner -Brett’s past [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.