Now Accepting Templeton Freedom Award Applications
Atlas is now accepting applications for the 2010 Templeton Freedom Awards. We are accepting applications in the following 8 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 [...]
Teach A Man to Compete: Paraguay’s Self-Sufficient Agriculture School
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 [...]
New CEOs, Awards and Conferences- A North American Update
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
Only a Few Days Left to Apply for a Templeton Freedom Award
The deadline for applications is May 31st, so be sure to submit your organization’s soon. The Templeton Freedom Awards offer prizes of $10,000 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 [...]
Apply Now for a Templeton Freedom Award
Atlas is now accepting applications for the Templeton Freedom Awards. 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 [...]
CEDICE Celebrates the Holidays In Venezuela with its International Prizes from Atlas
This year, the well-established free market think tank, CEDICE (Venezuela) has won three international prizes from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation: The Templeton Freedom Award for Excellence in Promoting Liberty in the category of Student Outreach; the Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty; and the Francisco Marroquin Prize. CEDICE will celebrate today, December 12, in [...]
Entrepreneurship’s Role in Poverty Alleviation
After Atlas’s Templeton Freedom Awards program on the morning of November 13th, Atlas joined with the Independent Institute to host an afternoon program on Lessons from the Poor: The Power of Entrepreneurship. The speakers examined real-world examples of entrepreneurship and suggested that governments should free the people of developing countries to create new wealth, instead [...]
In Classic Fashion
As many of you know, last week Atlas held its annual Freedom Dinner, which commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberation of millions from the grip of the Soviet empire. Along with this event, we recognized the work of 16 think tanks as winners of our Templeton Freedom Award. Institución Futuro, based [...]
