To overcome poverty and hopelessness and create a flourishing global society, economic freedom must advance all over the world. The market order needs to replace central planning. Individuals operating outside the legal economy need to be brought into a legal order respectful of contracts and property rights. The virtues that support successful capitalist economies — such as working to establish trust and finding opportunity through service to others — must take root in cultures presently infected by suspicion and rivalry.

Atlas believes that this long-term mission of improving the climate of ideas is best pursued through the work of independent institutions that are devoted to researching and promoting the principles of a free and virtuous society.

Atlas launched the Templeton Freedom Awards Program as a means of improving the effectiveness of think tanks through competition; rewarding those making the greatest contributions and those with the most future promise; and providing these organizations with international recognition, positive publicity, and funding to develop their visibility and expand their program activities.

The Templeton Freedom Awards Program enhances and expands Atlas's traditional efforts to help those who are changing the world for the better. The program consists of: - Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty which recognize excellent work by institutes and scholars who address important subjects related to advancing the understanding of freedom. - Templeton Freedom Award Grants which are given to outstanding, promising think tanks. Preference is shown for innovative institutes, operating in difficult parts of the world or working in innovative areas that expand the scope of, and market for, think tank research on freedom.

Thanks to a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Atlas will give out more than $1.25 million in grants and prizes related to the Templeton Freedom Awards from 2004-2007. The John Templeton Foundation also has created a generous matching grant opportunity for Atlas. It will match up to $250,000 per year in new contributions received to help develop think tanks in parts of the world where few seeds of freedom have been planted to date.

Please visit Atlas Economic Research Foundation for deadlines and application forms.

For More Information:
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
2000 North 14th Street, Suite 550
Arlington, VA 22201
703-934-6969: tel.
atlas@atlasUSA.org
www.atlasUSA.org

 

Press Releases

Prize for Ghanaian NGO

Atlas Honors 26 Institutes in the 2006 Templeton Freedom Awards Program

Atlas’s Templeton Freedom Prizes Recognize Work by Institutes in Asian Countries and Former Soviet States (2005)

Atlas Grants $150,000 to 15 Institutes Through the 2005 Templeton Freedom Awards Program

$10,000 Awarded to Montenegrin Institute for Innovative Media Strategy (2005) (DOC)

 

Past Winners

Please see this list.

Prizes