Atlas is now accepting nominations for 2010  in 8 different 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 between free enterprise and the ethics, values, and character that sustain it.

•Student Outreach – recognizing outstanding work by think tanks to improve education about freedom.

•Social Entrepreneurship – recognizing outstanding research and innovative projects on social entrepreneurship to benefit the poor, increased cooperation among think tanks, the private sector organizations for the free society; and general building of a sound, strong, civil society.

•Initiative in Public Relations – recognizing non-profit research institute that have demonstrated outstanding success in effectively communicating the ideas of a free society.

•Innovative Media Award – recognizing outstanding think tank projects that use film or multimedia technologies to promote the principles of a free society.

•Award for Special Achievement by a University-Based Center – recognizing outstanding projects and achievement by university-based centers in promoting liberty.

•Award for Special Achievement by a Young Institute – recognizing out-standing performance by an institute that is less than five years old.  One winner will be chosen from a developed country, and another one from a more difficult part of the world.

Two winners will be announced in each category: One prize will be given to an “established institute” (older than 8 years), and one to an “emerging institute” (8 years or younger).   The one exception is in the Young Institute prize, explained above, which is restricted to think tanks less than 5 years old. Each winner will receive $10,000.

To Apply: The application deadline is July 2, 2010. Please fill out and submit the nomination form to Gonzalo Schwarz via e-mail at [email protected].  You can submit the supporting material either via e-mail or by post to:

Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Attn: Mr. Gonzalo Schwarz
1201 L Street, NW, 2nd Floor Washington, DC 20005

We encourage you to submit supporting documents as attachments to your nomination, although these are optional. Previous winners may nominate a different project in the same or in a different category. You may nominate in more than one prize category with different projects, but you will be restricted to win no more than one prize per year.  You can nominate only one project in any given category.

Prize Announcement: Winners of 2010 Templeton Freedom Awards will be announced at the Atlas Liberty Forum in November 2010, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. prior to the Atlas Freedom Dinner.