Awards

Atlas’s Templeton Freedom Awards Program recognizes new institutes with exceptional future promise, as well as outstanding work by leading think tanks in the areas of free-market solutions to poverty, ethics and values, social entrepreneurship, and outreach to students. From 2004-2008, Atlas distributed more than $1,250,000 in TFA prizes and grants.

In 1990, Atlas honored its late founder by establishing the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards. This annual program recognizes outstanding publications produced by independent public policy research institutes.

The Atlas Economic Research Foundation has established the Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty to reward the efforts of think tanks in difficult parts of the world that are most effective in spreading the ideas of freedom: limited government, the rule of law, free enterprise and the dignity of the individual.

Beginning in 2008, Atlas began our most ambitious award program yet, the Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants program. Dorian and Antony believed that independent think tanks can produce enormous leverage for changing the climate of ideas in a country.   They saw that investments in emerging think tanks could be extremely cost-effective, especially when complimented with mentoring to further improve those think tanks’ prospects for long-term success. For this reason, Atlas has created the Dorian and Antony Fisher Venture Grants program, which will provide grantees with funding over a period of three years, during which time Atlas will be in frequent contact to help develop plans and to monitor performance.