Atlas Shrugged Grants
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Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged, is frequently cited by members of the Atlas network as one of the books that inspired them to devote their lives to advancing individual liberty. Its powerful defense of individualism, and its critique of statist policies and the mindset that enables them, seems to grow more relevant year by year.
Atlas launched the Atlas Shrugged Grants Project in 2007 to expose a larger international audience to Rand’s ideas. Atlas awards $10,000 grants to think tanks with outstanding proposals for using Atlas Shrugged to teach the virtues of entrepreneurship, individual initiative, wealth generation, and prosperity.
For this project, Atlas collaborates with the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) to provide institutes with advice and resources. ARI Executive Director Dr. Yaron Brook has participated in programs hosted by grantees within this program, including the Imani: Center for Policy and Education (Ghana) and Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (China).
The program is made possible by the generous funding of BB&T, whose Chairman and CEO John Allison spoke at the 2007 Atlas Liberty Forum about the importance of private property rights, rational self-interest, and educating young people on the morality of free enterprise (audio recording here). For this reason grant recipients will be asked to list BB&T as the sponsor of their Atlas Shrugged project on their promotional materials related to the project.
- F.A. Hayek Foundation (Slovakia)
- Fundacion Global (Argentina)
- Liberty Institute (India)
- Malaysia Think Tank London
Read more about the results of the projects.
2007 Grant Recipients
