2014 Annual Report

LIBERTY FORUM & FREEDOM DINNER 2015
NEW YORK CITY • NOVEMBER 11–12
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YEAR IN REVIEW 2014
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A FREE, PROSPEROUS, AND PEACEFUL WORLD
Global Partner Directory Inside
YEAR IN REVIEW 2014
A FREE, PROSPEROUS, AND PEACEFUL WORLD
Featured on the cover are team members from
Atlas Network partners and think tanks from
around the world:
•
Ali Salman, founder and executive
director of the Policy Research
Institute of Market Economy
(PRIME) (Islamabad, Pakistan).
•
Zineb Benalla, freedom champion
(Morocco); and Japheth Omojuwa,
editor of AfricanLiberty.org
(Oshodi, Nigeria).
•
Armando Regil Velasco, founder and
president of IPEA (Agora Institute
for Strategic Thinking) (Mexico City,
Mexico); and Claudia Regil, general
director of IPEA.
•
Patrick Reasonover, president and
co-founder of Taliesin Nexus (Los
Angeles, United States).
These represent only a handful of Atlas Network’s 458 partners in 96 countries. Each Atlas
Network partner is independent and advances freedom and liberty in its own ways. To see
the full global directory of Atlas Network partners, visit page 33.
Atlas Network supporter Jenny Cerasuolo greets Yeonmi Park during the 2014 Atlas Network Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner.
Special thanks to Judd Weiss for use of several of the photos included in this Year In Review.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Message From the CEO..............................................2
Sir Antony Fisher and the Battle of Ideas........................3
Vision and Mission........................................................4
In Memoriam...............................................................5
The Atlas Network Strategy: Overview.............................6
The Atlas Network Strategy: Cultivate.............................7
Partner Profile: PRIME (Pakistan)................................. 10
The Atlas Network Strategy: Train................................. 11
Partner Profile: Taliesin Nexus (United States)............... 13
The Atlas Network Strategy: Support............................. 14
Partner Profile: IPEA (Mexico)...................................... 15
The Atlas Network Strategy: Recognize ......................... 16
The Atlas Network Strategy: Connect............................ 20
Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner.................................. 24
Today’s Berlin Walls.................................................... 30
Partner Profile: AfricanLiberty.org (Nigeria)................... 32
Atlas Network Global Partner Directory ......................... 33
Marketing and Communications .................................. 50
The Atlas Network Team ............................................. 52
2014 Financials ........................................................ 55
2014 by the Numbers................................................. 56
A Thank You From Atlas Network’s President ................ 57
Atlas Network Supporters............................................ 58
Connect With Us......................................................... 60
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Navigator member
since 2010.
Atlas Network is a
GuideStar Exchange
Gold Participant.
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ATLAS NETWORK
A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
In 2015, Atlas
Network celebrates
what would have been
the 100th birthday
of our founder, Sir
Antony Fisher. Fisher
led a heroic life that
inspires us today.
Winston Churchill
said of the Royal Air
Force after the Battle of Britain: “Never in the
field of human conflict was so much owed by
so many to so few.” Antony Fisher was among
those few.
Margaret Thatcher said of the founders of the
Institute of Economic Affairs after 30 years
waging the war of ideas: “They were the few,
but they were right and they saved Britain.” Sir
Antony was among those few, too.
These tributes from two of the UK’s
greatest prime ministers are a reminder
of how much good can be done by “a few”
who act decisively on behalf of a noble
cause.
In the pages of this 2014 Year In Review, you’ll
see how your support of Atlas Network has
energized a remarkable worldwide effort to
actually implement the freedom philosophy
and achieve free-market reforms.
This battle of ideas is a long-term fight
that requires patience, but you will see
unmistakable progress when you look at what
is taking place across this network that we’re
so privileged to connect. Our partners are
winning policy battles. They are generating
media discussion of liberty where it previously
did not exist. They inspire young people to go
beyond taking an interest in liberty, and to
receive Atlas Leadership Academy training to
become effective “intellectual entrepreneurs.”
How does it all happen?
We are fortunate to have a strong and caring
organizational culture. It was built over
decades by individuals like the late John
Blundell and Leonard Liggio, both of whom
are remembered on page 5. This Atlas Network
spirit is carried across the world by the often
courageous and always principled partners that
participate in our programs.
We never forget that what we do would
be impossible were it not for the financial
supporters that we recognize with gratitude in
this Year In Review. You could use your wealth
for any number of ends, but you generously
give to Atlas Network to support the advance
of liberty worldwide.
Each gift adds up and helps to make a
difference for freedom throughout the world.
We thank you for it.
Brad Lips, CEO
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SIR ANTONY FISHER AND THE BATTLE OF IDEAS
In 1981, Sir Antony
Fisher founded Atlas
Network, which was
then called Atlas
Economic Research
Foundation. Today,
Atlas Network has
458 independent
partners in 96
countries worldwide
dedicated to the
battle of ideas for
freedom. On June 28,
2015, Fisher would
have celebrated his
100th birthday.
Finally if you agree with me, you can do
something about it. Every little effort however small does
have its effect:
What if the little rain should say:
‘So small a drop as I
Can ne’er refresh a drooping earth,
I’ll tarry in the sky’?
— Sir Antony Fisher
The Case for Freedom, 1948
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ATLAS NETWORK
VISION
MISSION
Our vision is of a
free, prosperous, and
peaceful world where
limited governments
defend the rule of
law, private property,
and free markets.
Our mission is to strengthen the
worldwide freedom movement by
identifying, training, and supporting
individuals with the potential to found
and develop effective independent
organizations that promote our vision in
every country.
Vytautas Žukauskas, senior policy analyst of Lithuanian Free Market Institute,
delivers his 60-second compelling pitch about his work during the John Blundell
Elevator Pitch Competition at the 2014 Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner.
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IN MEMORIAM
John Blundell
died on July 22,
2014, at the age of
61. Among John’s
many contributions
to the freedom
movement, he served
as president and CEO
of Atlas Network
from 1987–89 and
as a member of Atlas Network’s Board of
Directors for the last 27 years of his life. John
was born on Oct. 9, 1952, in Congleton,
Cheshire, England. John had a keen sense of
how history moves, and the principles that
will be vindicated over the long term. He
celebrated bold leadership on behalf of those
principles, and also the quiet behind-thescenes work that often matters more than
what’s most visible to a general audience.
Atlas Network and its partners celebrated
John Blundell’s life with a special event at the
Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner conference
by compiling a collection of John’s written
work and distributing his classic Waging the
War of Ideas. We were honored to have his
wife and Atlas Network supporter, Christine,
with us at this event. Information is available
at: onatl.as/blundellgreatest
Leonard Liggio offers a Toast to Liberty
at the Atlas Experience in Dallas in
2011.
Leonard Liggio
died on Oct. 14,
2014, at the age of
81. Leonard’s career
advancing liberty
spanned seven
decades. He spent his
last 21 years as Atlas
Network’s executive
vice president of
academics. He also held leadership roles at
The Institute for Humane Studies and in the
Philadelphia Society, and served on the boards
of Liberty Fund, the Freda Utley Foundation,
the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the
Mont Pelerin Society. Alex Chafuen and the
late John Blundell once wrote that, if F. A.
Hayek was the great architect of the revival
of classical liberalism, then Leonard has
been its “great builder, building a worldwide
movement … one career at a time.” Atlas
Network’s Liggio Legacy Program — originally
established on the occasion of Leonard’s 80th
birthday — archives a wealth of material from
Leonard’s career as a scholar and movement
builder. It also funds an annual lecture in
Leonard’s name, most recently given by
Professor John Tomasi at the 2014 Liberty
Forum & Freedom Dinner. More information
is available at: onatl.as/liggiolecturetomasi
Leonard Liggio with John Blundell at a
conference at Bates College in 1981.
Photo by Greg Lindsay.
John Blundell discussing Antony
Fisher and his wife Dorian, who
together established Atlas Network.
Dorian is profiled in a chapter of
Blundell’s book, Ladies for Liberty.
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ATLAS NETWORK
THE ATLAS NETWORK STRATEGY: OVERVIEW
CULTIVATE
TRAIN
Atlas Network’s
overarching strategy
is to accelerate the
achievements of
its network of 458
independent partners
in 96 countries by
providing competitive
opportunities for
training, support,
and international
recognition.
Identify individuals
with the potential
to found new
organizations and
nurture them during
their early years of
getting started.
Provide a suite of practical and diverse training
opportunities, relevant to
organizations at all stages
of institutional development, both online and
in person, in the United
States and in many locations around the world.
SUPPORT
RECOGNIZE
CONNECT
Provide a variety
of competitive
grant opportunities
designed to
strengthen
recipients and fund
high-impact work
for freedom.
Reward and
publicize the very
best achievements
in the network and
elevate the best
ideas and thinkers
to drive up the
overall quality of the
freedom movement.
Facilitate relationships
among partners at all
stages of institutional
development and
drive the widespread
sharing of inspirational
stories, best practices,
insights, and solutions.
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CULTIVATE
As part of its effort to develop the next generation of think
tanks all around the world, Dr. Tom G. Palmer, executive vice
president for international programs, leads Atlas Network’s
coordinated effort to identify those around the world with
the potential to start new organizations and to nurture them
during their foundational years.
From Asia to Africa to Latin America to Europe, and places
around and in between, Dr. Palmer met, inspired, and assisted
leaders in the freedom movement. Here are some of the
highlights.
Asia generally is seeing an upsurge in classical liberal thinking with strong emphasis on
freeing markets and trade, and that was on display at the Asia Liberty Forum 2014 in DelhiNCR, India. Sponsored by Atlas Network and the Centre for Civil Society in India, Asia
Liberty Forum is coordinated through our joint effort, the Asia Centre for Enterprise, and
works closely with our partner in Nepal, Samriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation.
In Africa, we worked over the past few years to refocus
Atlas Network’s work toward long-term development of the
freedom network by directing resources in support of African
Students for Liberty. That focus has generated very positive
results across the continent. African Students for Liberty has
grown by leaps and bounds, and several years of work have led
to new think tanks in Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi.
Dr. Palmer traveled extensively in Africa in 2013 and 2014
to lecture on free markets and individual liberty, and to
work with both student organizers and think tank directors.
Highlights in 2014 included the launch of the Francophone
Students for Liberty in the Ivory Coast, where Palmer spoke at
its conference and with the support of Atlas Network partner
Audace Institute Afrique of Abidjan (and released the French
version of his edited volume The Morality of Capitalism),
and at the Eastern African Regional Conference of African
Students for Liberty in Nairobi, which was co-sponsored by
the Eastern Africa Policy Centre.
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ATLAS NETWORK
A student participates in Q&A
during the African Students for
Liberty Eastern Africa Regional
Conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya,
where Palmer and Atlas Network’s
AfricanLiberty.org editor Japheth
Omojuwa spoke.
Dr. Palmer organized visits to Atlas
Network’s Washington, D.C., office
for consultation and training.
Visitors included the founders of
new German partner Prometheus–
The Liberty Institute, Frank Schäffler
and Clemens Schneider.
In February 2014, as the political
crisis in Ukraine began to peak,
Dr. Palmer started organizing an
Emergency Economic Summit for
Ukraine, which took place on March
12 under a new government and
during a Russian invasion of parts of
the country.
Dr. Tom G. Palmer presenting “A
Brief History of Liberty” at an event
hosted by John Stuart Mill Research
Group in Athens, Greece, on Dec. 3,
2014.
Dr. Tom G. Palmer’s book Peace, Love,
& Liberty was published in 2014.
This provocative new book of essays
from world-renowned experts on
the topic of peace and war explains
how the classical liberal, free-market
philosophy is the philosophy of peace.
In partnership with Atlas Network
partner Students for Liberty, Peace,
Love, & Liberty was distributed to more
than 125,000 college students all over
the world. It has already appeared in
Greek and Hindi, and translations
will appear soon in Russian, Chinese,
Spanish, and other languages. This
book is part of a series that includes
The Economics of Freedom (2010), The
Morality of Capitalism (2011), After the
Welfare State (2012), and Why Liberty
(2013).
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Photo Credit: Gaga Kapanadze /
Free Unviersity
Kakha Bendukidze, former minister of economics
of the Republic of Georgia and a famous freemarket reformer, speaks to the press after the
Emergency Economic Summit for Ukraine on
March 12, 2014.
Kakha Bendukidze
April 20, 1956–Nov. 13, 2014
Dr. Palmer worked with the late Kakha
Bendukidze, the former minister of
economics of the Republic of Georgia, and
was assisted by the Cato Institute’s Dalibor
Rohac to put together a program of star
reformers from the region at the Emergency
Economic Summit for Ukraine. More than
650 people attended, including more than
100 journalists. And, although the country
is still in a serious crisis — both economic
and military — and no politically easy
options are available, the conference had
a major impact on public opinion. Atlas
Network continues to follow up with our
Ukrainian partners, and we are hopeful that
sound policies can be implemented in time
to avoid a collapse of the country.
Champions of liberty across the world were deeply saddened to
learn of Kakha Bendukidze’s death on Nov. 13, 2014. He played a
fundamental role in orchestrating the post-Soviet economic transition
of the Republic of Georgia. After leaving the government, Bendukidze
was a regular speaker at pro-liberty conferences. He incubated
a generation of liberty-minded students and leaders at the Free
University, which he founded and which quickly became the country’s
most effective source of higher education. To read more about the
impact of Bendukidze, read The New Yorker article “The man who
remade Georgia.”
Tom Palmer being interviewed by Dimitris Pefanis, director
of in.gr (Greece’s most popular news portal), at the foothills
of the Acropolis in Athens.
The political climate in Greece has been
troubled for years, with a ballooning
government sector and debt. The crisis led
to the rise of radical collectivism, resulting
in the election of the neo-Nazi Golden
Dawn party to the European Parliament
in May 2014. Dr. Palmer and Greek
native Alexander Skouras, Atlas Network’s
associate director of institute relations,
spent time in Greece in early December
meeting with and speaking before students,
educators, intellectuals, journalists, and
other attendees at events organized and
sponsored by Liberty Forum on Greece
(KEFIM), Friedrich Naumann Foundation
(FNF), John Stuart Mill Research Group,
Women for Liberty, and European Students
for Liberty–Greece. Nikos Charalambous
of KEFIM did much of the planning for
that visit, and has been actively reviving the
Greek classical liberal movement.
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PARTNER PROFILE
The PRIME team at its October 2014 National Debt Conference in Islamabad.
“Pakistan has largely been described as
captured by the ‘state aristocracy’ — rentseeking elites, who thrive on the resources
and patronage by the state,” wrote Ali Salman,
founder and executive director of the Policy
Research Institute of Market Economy
(PRIME). “Underneath this, another Pakistan
is being shaped by those entrepreneurs who
create value and wealth for the society. There
are countless meritorious professionals, and
honest and toiling individuals in all fields
sketching out hope and prosperity. The future
of Pakistan is to be determined by these
individuals.”
Based in Islamabad, PRIME works for an open,
free, and prosperous Pakistan. It explains
its mission as “creating and expanding a
constituency for the protective function of the
state and the freedom of the market.”
Through conferences and seminars, research
papers, advocacy in the media, and Freedom
Academies, PRIME aspires to demonstrate the
utility of market-oriented solutions for public
problems. It argues that Pakistan’s future will
Ali Salman, founder and
executive director of
PRIME, presents policy
reform ideas for laws
governing energy-sector
financing and distribution
in Pakistan.
be brighter with the engagement of civil society
in tracking the effects of government policies.
PRIME team members have been active
participants in many of the programs and
networking opportunities offered by Atlas
Network. In 2014, PRIME received an Atlas
Network grant to support its work in reforming
Pakistan’s highly distortionary laws that govern
energy-sector financing and distribution. After
holding a stakeholder event to present their
findings and recommendations, PRIME leaders
continued to work closely with the media and
government leadership to advocate for their
solutions. Within six months, Pakistan had
adopted two significant market-based policy
reforms that promised better reliability for the
nation’s electricity users.
PRIME is one of Atlas Network’s 458
independent partners in 96 countries. Its
founder, Ali Salman, is a graduate of Atlas
Network’s Think Tank MBA and gave the
winning presentation in Atlas Network’s first
Think Tank Shark Tank competition.
On left, Syed Ali Ehsan of
PRIME in Pakistan listens
as Bridgett Wagner, director
of coalition relations for the
Heritage Foundation (United
States), shares her story
during Atlas Leadership
Academy’s Think Tank Startup Training in Nepal.
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Atlas Network trained 1,000 think tank leaders and staff
through its Atlas Leadership Academy course offerings in
2014, and awarded graduation to 34 participants. Atlas
Leadership Academy is a suite of practical and diverse
training opportunities, relevant to organizations at all
stages of institutional development, both online and in person, in the United States and in
many other locations around the world.
TRAIN
Atlas Network’s Think Tank MBA class of 2014.
Atlas Leadership Academy is a vital tool for Atlas Network partners who are making a career
out of making a difference. Of the 1,000 participants, 148 partners were represented from 90
different countries. Participants take part in trainings like Think Tank MBA, an annual 10-day
intensive course focused on strategic planning, management, and project execution; monthly
webinars on fundraising and communications strategies; Think Tank Leadership Training, an
annual two-day conference providing an overview of key functions of efficient think tanks taught
by top think tank leaders and experts; Think Tank Navigator, a course covering the basics of
launching or improving a think tank in five practical lessons; and many more courses. To learn
more, visit: AtlasNetwork.org/academy
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“I am one of the freedom
seeds the Atlas Network
planted,”said Zineb Benalla
of Morocco, a graduate of the
2014 Atlas Network Think Tank
MBA. Her inspiring efforts
include outreach in Mali where
she has persuaded tribal leaders
to teach from texts that promote
the virtues of tolerance and
individual freedom.
“Instructors
with lots
of real life
experience
not only
transmitted
knowledge
but also
gave me
lots of
inspiration,” said Magno Karl,
director of Atlas Network
partner Ordem Livre in
Brazil, after attending Think
Tank Leadership Training
(TTLT) in 2014 along with
41 participants from 24
countries. TTLT is a series of
workshops and lectures focused
on program management,
strategic planning,
communications strategies,
and fundraising from leaders
in the freedom industry.
“I am continually looking for the next way to improve how we
communicate the message of freedom,” said John Kramer, vice president for
communications at the Institute for Justice after attending the 2014 Lights, Camera,
Liberty training program. “I’m confident what I took away from the Lights, Camera,
Liberty conference will improve the look, feel, and sound of this message over the
next year and for years to come.” From storytelling to technical production to video
promotion, Atlas Network’s Lights, Camera, Liberty training equips and inspires think
tanks from around the world to more effectively advance the ideas of liberty through
video. In 2014, participants from 38 think tanks on six continents learned from some of
Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters, producers, and media pros working today.
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PARTNER PROFILE
Taliesin Nexus founders Patrick Reasonover and Andrew
Leigh presenting on the topic of production schedules.
The ideas of liberty can often best be
communicated through the stories of real
people, and in today’s digital age, videos that
provide a narrative of freedom are within easy
reach of almost everybody. The team at Taliesin
Nexus believes that filmmaking and television
are collaborative art forms. They are the creative
product of an entire nexus of people, from
producers to writers to directors to editors, as
well as financiers and distributors. That’s why
founders Patrick Reasonover and Andrew Leigh
formulated their mission to identify, develop,
and promote talented young filmmakers who
share a belief in the importance of free markets,
individual liberty, and the values of America’s
founding.
In order to encourage the creation of great
stories, Taliesin Nexus serves as a bridge between
up-and-coming filmmakers and experienced
industry professionals who share a passion for
a free society. Based in Los Angeles, Calif., it
teaches filmmakers of promise by leveraging
its network of Hollywood professionals to
create educational opportunities. To that end,
Patrick Reasonover shares his project proposal during the
2014 Shark Tank competition at Liberty Forum & Freedom
Dinner 2014.
A hands-on demonstration of lighting for video best practices
at Atlas Network’s Lights, Camera, Liberty training program.
it organizes workshops, internships, and other
events that bring together talented creators who
can network and learn from each other.
Taliesin Nexus has partnered with Atlas
Network to help run the Lights, Camera, Liberty
program, which trains video makers who work
for liberty-oriented nonprofits within Atlas
Network’s partner organizations. Through
participation in this program, they become even
more successful at reaching and engaging new
and larger audiences in a way that impacts their
thinking and transforms lives for the better.
Taliesin Nexus is one of Atlas Network’s
458 independent partners in 96 countries.
Reasonover, who serves as president of Taliesin
Nexus, completed Atlas Leadership Academy’s
Think Tank MBA in 2014. He was also a
competitor at the 2014 Think Tank Shark
Tank competition, in which he presented his
“Erasmus Documentary Film Workshop” project
proposal to pair promising liberty-oriented
documentarians with mentors from Hollywood
throughout the documentary-making process.
Hollywood writer and producer Paul Guay presents on
storytelling during the Lights, Camera, Liberty training.
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SUPPORT
Atlas Network awarded $4,340,000 in grants to 177
partners in 68 countries in 2014, and provided a variety
of competitive grant opportunities designed to strengthen
recipient organizations and fund high-impact work for
freedom.
Free Market Foundation’s Khaya Lam Land Reform
Project.
IDEAS team members visit with the Senate president
and his officer at the Senate’s office of the Malaysian
Parliament. From left: Fareeza Ibrahim, Wan Saiful
Wan Jan, Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang, Tricia Yeoh, and
Senate officer.
IDEAS runs Malaysian focus group on messaging.
Dr. Tom G. Palmer with the team from Audace
Institut Afrique.
In his seminal book The Mystery of Capital,
Hernando de Soto estimated the world’s poor own
nearly $10 trillion in “dead capital” that can’t be
used for their own benefit because of inadequate
property laws. South Africa’s Free Market
Foundation has resurrected that capital for hundreds
of South African land and housing tenants through
a now-completed pilot program, “Khaya Lam Land
Reform Project.” With fixed assets, these new
owners are now able to access formal credit for the
first time and apply for business, auto, and
education loans to improve their own lives. With the
support of an Atlas Network grant, Free Market
Foundation is aggressively leveraging the pilot
project results in order to convert an estimated
7–10 million properties nationwide into fully
tradable freehold titles.
The forward-thinking leaders of the Institute for
Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) in
Malaysia used Atlas Network support to gather focus
group data on how best to craft effective messaging
about freedom and free enterprise. Using the results,
they leveraged additional research support from
Atlas Network’s Liberating Asian Enterprise grant
to develop and market findings about the benefits
of easing protectionist policies for government
contracts in Malaysia.
In addition to helping organizations achieve policy
impact, Atlas Network also provides grants to help
new projects attract broader support. Gisèle Dutheil,
Atlas Leadership Academy graduate and leader of
Audace Institut Afrique in the Ivory Coast, used
the support of an Atlas Network grant to create
an ambitious property rights program for rural
areas. The program trains villagers to use GPS and
mapping technology to establish their own land
registries. “[Atlas Network’s] support has allowed
us to launch this important project, giving us
credibility to attract new [funding sources],” Dutheil
explained, citing multi-year gifts from new donors
that amounted to a total of more than tenfold Atlas
Network’s initial investment.
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PARTNER PROFILE
IPEA leads the grassroots youth initiative “One Million Youth for Mexico.”
In Mexico, expressions of discontent are growing
everywhere. Protests have cropped up around
the nation demanding more government
accountability and less corruption. That is why
the work of IPEA — also known as Agora Institute
for Strategic Thinking — is so important.
strategy that allows regional groups to effect
change in their own cities, and has also played
a critical role at the federal level in achieving
a Law of Citizens Initiative that will empower
civil society and strengthen the rule of law
throughout Mexico.
Based in Mexico City, IPEA’s mission is to
promote a free, virtuous, and prosperous society
based on ethical principles and individual and
public responsibility. It accomplishes this by
advancing respect for human dignity, a freemarket economy, a government limited by the
rule of law, and a strong democracy.
“We are optimistic because we know the future is
not written,” said IPEA President Armando Regil
Velasco, who is a graduate of Atlas Network’s
Think Tank MBA program. “We are free to
choose, and we choose freedom as the right and
necessary condition to pursue our happiness and
our dreams, to be a generation of responsible
citizens in a country where the rule of law
should prevail. We want to live in a more free
and prosperous Mexico; this is the reason we are
working so hard empowering our generation to
innovate, create new opportunities, and provide
policy solutions to face our biggest challenges.”
IPEA is active in the grassroots freedom
movement within Mexico. And, in addition to its
on-the-ground advocacy, IPEA frequently appears
in the media proposing policy reform solutions
that favor a more free society.
One of its biggest efforts has been to empower
the next generation of freedom advocates in
Mexico through its campaign 1MJxM (One
Million Youth for Liberty and Responsibility in
Mexico). This program aims to build a network
of young leaders that will address barriers to
freedom throughout Mexico, and has produced
a growing network of more than 155,000
participants in more than 20 cities across
Mexico. The campaign is based on a bottom-up
IPEA is celebrating its sixth anniversary this
year, and was awarded the 2013 Francisco
Marroquín Award for Student Outreach for its
work. IPEA has been part of numerous Atlas
Network programs, including Atlas Network’s
grants, awards, and training programs with
Atlas Leadership Academy. IPEA is one of Atlas
Network’s 458 independent partners in 96
countries.
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RECOGNIZE
Atlas Network gave $180,000 in awards to 23 partners in
10 countries in its role of rewarding and publicizing the
very best achievements among partner organizations, and
elevating the best ideas and thinkers in order to expand the
overall quality of the freedom movement.
C E L E B R AT I NG A D E C A D E OF
T HE T E M P L E T O N F R E E DOM
AWA R D
ATLAS N ETWO R K
Zilvinas Silenas, president of the Lithuanian Free Market
Institute, accepting Atlas Network’s 2014 Templeton
Freedom Award.
2014 TEMPLETON
FREEDOM AWARD
Awarded since
2004, the
Templeton Freedom
Award is named for the late investor and
philanthropist Sir John Templeton. The award
annually honors his legacy by identifying
and recognizing the most exceptional and
innovative contributions to the understanding
of free enterprise, and the public policies that
encourage prosperity, innovation, and human
fulfillment via free competition. The award is
generously supported by Templeton Religion
Trust.
In 2014, the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
(LFMI) was awarded the prestigious $100,000
Templeton Freedom Award for its Municipal
Templeton Freedom Award 10-year retrospective
includes a comprehensive list of all past winners of
the award. It also honors and looks back at the life of
Sir John Templeton and the cause of human freedom.
Available at AtlasNetwork.org.
Performance Index for Freedom and Free
Enterprise. To build the case for policy
change at the local government level, in 2011
LFMI designed and launched its Municipal
Performance Index to measure and rank the
performance of municipal governments in
three overarching categories: municipalities
for citizens, municipalities for investors, and
municipal governance and administration.
“The performance index is an easy selfevaluation tool for municipalities,” LFMI
President Zilvinas Silenas said. “As a byproduct
of the index, we have been able to go to various
cities and meet mayors, local entrepreneurs,
and citizens to discuss issues and solutions
related to their schools, taxes, or debts. So we
not only present our self-evaluation tool, we
actually help them to be clearly heard.”
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Templeton Freedom Award 2014: Armando Regil (IPEA - Agora Institute for Strategic Thinking, Mexico); Kris Mauren
(Acton Institute, U.S.); Darcy Olsen (Goldwater Institute, U.S.); Brad Lips (Atlas Network, U.S.); Zilvinas Silenas
(Lithuanian Free Market Institute, Lithuania); Vytautas Žukauskas (Lithuanian Free Market Institute, Lithuania); Jennifer
Templeton Simpson (The John Templeton Foundation, U.S.); Dr. Alex Chafuen (Atlas Network, U.S.); Martin Ågerup
(CEPOS, Denmark); Tarren Bragdon (The Foundation for Government Accountability, U.S.); Cristina Berechet (Civismo,
Spain); John Tillman (Illinois Policy Institute, U.S.).
Other finalists for the 2014 award included:
Acton Institute (United States) for “Acton
University”
Center for Political Studies (CEPOS) (Denmark) for
“Private Property Project”
Civismo (Spain) for “Low Taxes Campaign for
Spain”
Foundation for Government Accountability (United
States) for “Initiative to Limit Medicaid Expansion”
Goldwater Institute (United States) for “Education
Savings Accounts”
Illinois Policy Institute (United States) for “Stopping
an Unfair Progressive Income Tax”
Agora Institute for Strategic Thinking (IPEA)
(Mexico) for “One Million Youth for Liberty and
Responsibility in Mexico”
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From left to right: Eamonn Butler, author of Foundations of a Free Society and director of The Adam
Smith Institute; Mark Littlewood, IEA director general; Linda Whetstone, chairman of Network for a
Free Society and daughter of the late Sir Antony Fisher; and Brad Lips, CEO of Atlas Network.
Foundations of a
Free Society presents
in simple terms the
moral, economic,
and practical case
for a free society,
including issues such
as property rights,
justice, equality,
law, government,
toleration, and limits
on official power.
SIR ANTONY FISHER INTERNATIONAL
MEMORIAL PUBLICATION AWARD
Established in 1990, Atlas Network’s Sir
Antony Fisher International Memorial
Award recognizes the organization that
published a book, magazine, report,
monograph, or study that, in the
opinion of a panel of external judges,
has had demonstrable impact and made
the greatest contribution to public
understanding of the free society.
London-based Institute of Economic
Affairs (IEA) was named the 2014
winner of the $10,000 Fisher Award
for its 2013 book Foundations of a Free
Society, authored by Adam Smith Institute
Director Eamonn Butler with a foreword
by Ali Salman, founder of PRIME, a
Pakistan-based think tank. (See page 10
for PRIME’s Partner Profile.) The book
presents in simple terms the moral,
economic, and practical case for a free
society.
“This book aims to give people in less-free
societies the confidence that they can take
public affairs out of the hands of a strong
government and trust the people instead,”
Butler said.
“We are honored to win this prestigious
award,” IEA Director General Mark
Littlewood said. “This particular book is at
the core of the IEA’s mission, outlining how
freedom creates prosperity and unleashes
invention and innovation.”
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THINK TANK SHARK TANK
Baladevan Rangaraju, founder of the
India Institute, accepting the Shark
Tank competition award from Atlas
Network CEO Brad Lips.
Atlas Network’s Think Tank Shark
Tank competition, generously
The i-torney app
sponsored by the Rising Tide
is currently being
Foundation, allows Atlas Leadership
developed.
Academy graduates to pitch exciting
and strategic new project ideas before a panel of notable
judges. Congratulations to this year’s $25,000 Think Tank
Shark Tank competition winner, Baladevan Rangaraju,
founder of New Delhi–based India Institute, for “i-torney:
a people’s pocket lawyer mobile app.”
The i-torney app will help India’s population understand
its rights, and support unduly detained individuals. It will
explain various legal offenses, check the legality of an
arrest, send an S.O.S. message to predetermined contacts,
and create a timeline of the incident.
Baladevan Rangaraju presents the
i-torney project proposal.
Candelaria de Elizalde of Argentina’s Libertad y Progreso
was awarded a $10,000 runner-up grant for the “Already
on the Road to Serfdom” video series. The other
competitors included Patrick Reasonover of Taliesin
Nexus (United States) for his “Erasmus Documentary
Film Series” proposal and Cristina Berechet of Civismo
(Spain) for her “Sustainable Pensions for Spain” project.
THE JOHN BLUNDELL
ELEVATOR PITCH AWARD
Elevator Pitch winners
on stage together.
The John Blundell Elevator
Pitch Award competition — in
which contestants must
develop a descriptive and
compelling pitch for their
organization’s work in just 60
seconds — is a highlight for
attendees of Liberty Forum &
Jonathan Isaby presenting
Freedom Dinner, and serves
his winning pitch.
as the final “rite of passage”
for Think Tank MBA participants. Jonathan Isaby, chief
executive of the UK-based TaxPayers’ Alliance, won
this year’s award for his stirring 60-second pitch about
the four ways in which money gets spent and how,
ultimately, people should be able to spend their own
money on themselves. Isaby took home the $1,000 grand
prize. Christian Zaens of the Institute for Solidarity in
Asia (The Philippines), and Ximena Ramirez, of Libertad
y Desarrollo (Chile) won second and third place,
respectively.
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CONNECT
Atlas Network held 31 events in 2014, with a total of 2,800
attendees. Through these events, Atlas Network facilitates
relationships among partners at all stages of institutional
development and drives the widespread sharing of
inspirational stories, best practices, insights, and solutions.
In April, Atlas Network and the Illinois Policy
Institute co-hosted a one-day forum preceding the
Philadelphia Society’s 50th anniversary meeting
in Chicago, Ill. The luncheon featured John Fund,
National Review columnist and Fox News political
analyst, who spoke on the theme of “Fighting for
freedom: 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall,”
in commemoration of its Nov. 9 anniversary.
Atlas Network hosts and is partner to
many events around the world. The events
of Atlas Network include Liberty Cafés in
Washington, D.C., and New York City, where
we bring together thought leaders on topics
of international relevance; the William
Sumner Event Series, generously supported
by Gerry Ohrstrom and The George L.
Ohrstrom Jr. Foundation; and the Atlas
Experience, where we feature networking
and day-long panels.
John Tillman (CEO, Illinois Policy
Institute) and Peter Goettler
(Atlas Network board member
and Cato Institute President and
CEO) attended sessions that
focused on the influence of the
Chicago School of Economics and
strategies for marketing the ideas
of freedom.
Deni Browne with Garrett and Candace Johnson
at a VIP reception at Carolands Chateau during
the Atlas Experience in San Francisco.
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North Korean defector and liberty activist
Yeonmi Park speaks about her escape from
North Korea at Liberty Forum & Freedom
Dinner.
The Atlas Experience in Hong Kong featured
freedom champions from across the continent
and concluded with a VIP dinner, featuring
Andrew Shuen of local co-host The Lion Rock
Institute.
Atlas Network’s Sound Money Project and the
Thomas Jefferson Foundation hosted a book
launch at Monticello for Atlas Network’s reprint
of Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit by
Thomas Jefferson, with Atlas Network Senior
Fellow Judy Shelton and Andrew O’Shaughnessy
of the Robert H. Smith International Center for
Jefferson Studies at Monticello, in January 2014.
Atlas Network board member emeritus Bill Sumner, Atlas
Advisory Council Member Sam Corcos, and Atlas Network
Chairman of the Board Dan Grossman prior to John Fund’s
talk at Carolands Chateau during the Atlas Experience in San
Francisco.
Atlas Network Templeton Leadership
Fellow Garry Kasparov explains how
he went from a champion of chess to a
champion of human rights worldwide.
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Atlas Network supporter Chris Rufer chats with Brad Lips prior to an
Atlas Network event at FreedomFest in Las Vegas.
Alexander Skouras with Frank Spano at an
Atlas Network event titled “Greece: The Rise
of Radical Extremes and Why it Matters for
Europe’s Future” in New York City.
The event on Greece was sponsored by Atlas
Network board member Nikos Monoyios
(right) and his wife Valerie Brackett. They
are pictured above with Chris Hollinger
(center).
In August, Atlas Network hosted Jonathan
Isaby and John O’Connell from the UK’s
TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), winners of the 2013
Templeton Freedom Award. TPA celebrated its
10th anniversary in 2014 by securing tax cuts
worth £37 billion ($62.15 billion in 2014).
In July, Atlas Network hosted a trivia
night to celebrate the birthday of Milton
Friedman. Sponsored by the Friedman
Foundation for Educational Choice,
categories included school choice and
economic freedom.
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Atlas Network supporters Bob Gelfond, Neal Goldman, and Marlene
Mieske attend Atlas Network event “The Future of Money: Bitcoin,
the Gold Standard, and Free Banking,” on June 3 at the Penn Club of
New York.
Atlas Network board member Chuck Albers (right) with supporters
Kristen Kossmann and Bill Cobb at one of Atlas Network’s many
freedom events in New York City.
Liberty Café Holiday Party with Gabriel Calzada, president of
Guatemala’s Universidad Francisco Marroquín, at the Penn Club.
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LIBERTY FORUM &
FREEDOM DINNER
Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner (LFFD) is the international freedom event of the
year. In 2014, the event attracted freedom champions from 59 countries. LFFD 2014
commemorated 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and asked partners to share
some of today’s obstacles to liberty — figurative Berlin Walls — where they live and
work. The featured keynote presentation was by Garry Kasparov, legendary chess
champion and Atlas Network’s 2014 Templeton Leadership Fellow. Other highlights
included:
• A special tribute to John Blundell, former CEO and longtime board member of
Atlas Network, who passed away on July 22, 2014.
• Second Annual Liggio Lecture by John Tomasi, director of the Political Theory
Project and professor at Brown University.
• Atlas Leadership Academy’s Think Tank Shark Tank $25,000 competition,
sponsored by the Rising Tide Foundation.
• $100,000 Templeton Freedom Award announcement.
India Institute founder
Baladevan Rangaraju gives
the winning presentation
at the Think Tank Shark
Tank competition in front
of a Liberty Forum audience
and panel of judges (from
foreground to background):
Terry Kibbe, Don Smith,
Ron Manners, Nikos
Monoyios, and Luis Ball.
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Christine Blundell is joined by John Tomasi
after Tomasi’s presentation of the second
annual Liggio Lecture.
Atlas Network supporter Fred Young serves as
master of ceremonies for the Think Tank Shark
Tank competition at Liberty Forum.
John Tierney, Amy Whitaker, and Atlas Network board
member Gerry Ohrstrom at Freedom Dinner 2014.
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LIBERTY FORUM & FREEDOM DINNER
Bridgett Wagner and Nancy March
in-between sessions at Liberty Forum.
Jennifer
Templeton
Simpson
introduces the
Templeton
Freedom Award
at Freedom
Dinner.
Atlas Network supporters Kyle and Lisa Miller with
Atlas Advisory Council member John Cerasuolo and
his wife Jenny.
Atlas Network supporters Terry Kibbe (left) and
Marlene Mieske (right) with Stephanie Lips and
Melissa Mann.
Atlas Network supporters Vanessa Barbee,
Julie Smith, and John Kunze at Freedom
Dinner.
Brad Lips helps celebrate the legacy of
the late John Blundell by donning John’s
famous “fancy waistcoat.”
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Atlas Network supporters Don Smith and
Viola Chaloupka at the Liggio Luncheon.
Atlas Network supporter Rebecca Dunn with
Atlas Network’s 2014 Templeton Leadership
Fellow, Garry Kasparov, and his wife, Dascha.
Atlas Leadership Academy graduates at Freedom Dinner, held at Capitale in New York City.
Atlas Advisory Council member Warren
Lammert, Foundation for Economic
Education Executive Director Wayne Olson,
and Atlas Network board member George
Pearson.
Brittany Cobb goes for a dip with Casey Lartigue
while dancing at a Liberty Forum dance reception.
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LIBERTY FORUM & FREEDOM DINNER
Atlas Network supporter Julie Planck with
Atlas Advisory Council member Kathy
Washburn.
Atlas Advisory Council member Ron Manners (center
right) with Luke McGrath, Yuliya Tychkivska, and
Paul McCarthy.
Ingrid Gregg (Earhart
Foundation) was
among those offering
warm remembrances
of Leonard Liggio
at Liberty Forum,
sharing from the
stage: “We will always
be Leonard’s students
— his apprentices in
liberty ...”
Atlas Network supporter Raul Brito with Atlas
Advisory Council member Mariela Vicini.
Gil Shelton sports an Atlas Network tie at
Freedom Dinner, pictured with his wife,
Atlas Network Senior Fellow Judy Shelton.
John Tierney (New York Times) at an Atlas
Network reception prior to delivering a lecture
called “Working Smart,” based on his best-selling
book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest
Human Strength. Pictured with Helen Fisher.
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Roberta Herzberg (John Templeton Foundation,
right) meets with Institute of Economic Affairs
representatives Christiana Hambro (left) and
Caroline Rollag (center).
Atlas Network’s Executive Vice President for
International Programs Tom G. Palmer (center),
with Michael Rotich (left) of Kenya-based
Eastern Africa Policy Centre and Franklin Cudjoe
(right) of Ghana-based IMANI Center for Policy
and Education.
From the dance floor of the freedom
movement’s most inspirational annual event.
Students from Wellesley College, sponsored by
Peter Goettler and Thomas Cushman, dance
into the night after a full day at Liberty Forum.
Atlas Network President Alex Chafuen
introducing the Second Annual Liggio
Lecture, featuring John Tomasi, at
Liberty Forum.
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TODAY’S BERLIN WALLS
The 2014 Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner commemorated 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Barriers
to freedom still exist all over the world, so leading up
to the event, Atlas Network asked its 458 partners to
identify and share some of the biggest obstacles to
liberty that they face and are addressing where they live
and work — their own figurative Berlin Walls of today.
Here are three examples from Atlas Network partners.
The Civil Development Forum (FOR) explained that the
Polish government seized more than $48 billion from
private pension accounts to address a short-term imbalance, setting a disturbing precedent of disregard for
property rights. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute pointed
out how 1.4 million aboriginals in Canada face special
barriers to opportunity through paternalistic policies
that have left them with sky-high unemployment
rates and lower life expectancy. CEDICE outlined the
continually declining quality of life in Venezuela and
the attacks on freedom by the ruling socialist regime
— including censorship, class warfare, abrogation of
property rights, shortages of basic goods, and runaway
inflation.
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Poland’s Civil Development Forum (FOR) played a
leadership role in turning public opinion against a plan
that would allow Poland’s government to seize over
$48 billion from its citizens’ private pension accounts to
address a short-term fiscal imbalance.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has
partnered with 650 First Nations
chiefs in Canada to advocate for
reforms to unlock natural resources
for development, integrate Aboriginal
businesspeople into a booming
energy market, and destroy negative
stereotypes in the process.
In Venezuela, the ruling socialist regime is bleeding the
life from this once-wealthy country. But CEDICE is
working to change that. CEDICE provides the intellectual
energy to a movement led by young people and students
who want freedom.
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PARTNER PROFILE
Dr. Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of African Union Commission; Japheth Omojuwa, editor of
AfricanLiberty.org; and Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, former vice president of World Bank – Africa division.
Much of Africa is characterized by nations
with unstable government regimes, endemic
violence, and a system of intracontinental
commerce paralyzed by tariffs, corruption,
and other barriers to trade. In order to build a
free and prosperous future, people throughout
Africa need a thorough grounding in the
fundamental ideas of liberty, peace, free
markets, and individual rights. To help meet
this need, AfricanLiberty.org was launched
in December 2007, and provides content in
English and Swahili, as well as access to freemarket material in French, Portuguese, and
Arabic.
The mission of AfricanLiberty.org is to become
the continent’s primary platform for sharing
practical ideas generated by Africans and those
who believe in Africa’s positive future. Its
leaders share a vision to bring African voices
for liberty to the wider world and work with
African media to disseminate policy ideas for a
new century of peace, freedom, and prosperity.
Japheth Omojuwa, editor of AfricanLiberty.org,
is a vocal proponent for rule of law and peace
in Africa. In addition to advancing freedom
in Africa, he helps others outside of Africa
understand how the freedom movement in
Africa has potential to achieve exponential
growth. Omojuwa makes regular appearances
in local and international news media, offering
views on politics and Nigeria’s socio-economic
and political development. He is one of the
most influential Nigerians on social media
and a thought leader among his peers, writing
about such diverse topics as the Nigerian
election and the feeble efforts of the Nigerian
government in finding the 276 girls abducted
by terrorist group Boko Haram. Omojuwa
completed Atlas Leadership Academy’s Think
Tank MBA training program in 2009 and
Think Tank Leadership Training in 2014.
AfricanLiberty.org’s vision is to bring African voices for liberty to the wider world,
disseminating policy ideas for a new century of peace, freedom, and prosperity.
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GLOBAL PARTNER DIRECTORY
15
139
CANADA
24
EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA
155
15
UNITED STATES
MENA
14
EAST ASIA & PACIFIC
SOUTH ASIA
18
68
AFRICA
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
AFRICA
10
Atlas Network has 458
independent partners
in 96 countries. The
strengths of some of
our dedicated partners
have created some of
the world’s greatest
improvements in
freedom.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
Le Centre Des Affaires Humaines
Burkina Faso
cedah.org
Central African Centre for
Libertarian Thought and Action
Cameroon
choforche.wordpress.com
Teachings of Entrepreneurship on
Antipoverty Movement
Ethiopia
teaminitiatives.org
Africa Youth Peace Call
Ghana
aypcghana.org
Imani Center for Policy and
Education
Ghana
imanighana.com
Audace Institut Afrique
Ivory Coast
audace-afrique.net
Eastern Africa Policy Centre
Kenya
eapcentre.org
Centre for Free Market Enterprise
Malawi
cfmemalawi.org
Centro de Estudos Moçambicanos
Mozambique
e Internacionais
cemo-mozambique.org
Chevauchee Foundation
Namibia
chevauchee.org
African Students for Liberty
Nigeria
studentsforliberty.org/africa
AfricanLiberty.org
Nigeria
africanliberty.org
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis Nigeria
ippanigeria.org
Centre for Development and
Enterprise
Free Market Foundation
Ineng
Uhuru Initiative for Policy &
Education
LibreAfrique.org
South Africa
cde.org.za
South Africa
South Africa
Tanzania
freemarketfoundation.com
ineng.co.za
uipe.org
Regional
libreafrique.org
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
Australian Libertarian Society
Australia
blog.libertarian.org.au
Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance
Australia
taxpayers.org.au
Bert Kelly Research Centre
Australia
bertkelly.org.au
Centre for Independent Studies
Australia
cis.org.au
Education Standards Institute
Australia
edstandards.com.au
Institute of Public Affairs
Australia
ipa.org.au
Mannkal Economic Education
Foundation
Australia
mannkal.org
Maxim Institute
New Zealand
maxim.org.nz
New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union
New Zealand
taxpayers.org.nz
The New Zealand Initiative
New Zealand
nzinitiative.org.nz
CANADA
PARTNER
PROVINCE WEBSITE
Canadian Constitution
Foundation
Alberta
canadianconstitutionfoundation.ca
Justice Centre for Constitutional
Freedoms
Alberta
jccf.ca
Manning Centre for Building
Democracy
Alberta
manningcentre.ca
Manning Foundation
Alberta
manningfoundation.org
Fraser Institute
British
Columbia
fraserinstitute.org
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Manitoba
fcpp.org
Atlantic Institute for Market
Studies
Nova Scotia
aims.ca
Civitas Canada
Nova Scotia
civitascanada.ca
Free Thinking Film Society
Ontario
freethinkingfilms.com
Institute for Liberal Studies
Ontario
liberalstudies.ca
Joseph Howe Institute
Ontario
josephhoweinstitute.ca
Ludwig von Mises Institute of
Canada
Ontario
mises.ca
MacDonald-Laurier Institute for
Public Policy
Ontario
macdonaldlaurier.ca
Montreal Economic Institute
Quebec
iedm.org
Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Saskatchewan
taxpayer.com
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EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
China
cipacn.org
Fuping Development Institute
China
fdi.ngo.cn
Impact Law Firm
China
judicialwatch.com.cn
iPencil Economic Research
Institute
China
impencil.org
Shanghai Institute of Finance and
Law
China
sifl.org.cn
The Babel Institute
China
thebabel.org
The Ronald Coase Center for the
Study of the Economy at Zhejiang
University
China
ccse.zju.edu.cn
Transition Institute
China
zhuanxing.cn
Unirule Institute of Economics
China
unirule.org.cn
Lion Rock Institute
Hong Kong
lionrockinstitute.org
Center for Indonesian Policy
Studies
Indonesia
cips-indonesia.org
Freedom Institute
Indonesia
freedom-institute.org
SuaraKebebasan.org
Indonesia
suarakebebasan.org
Japan Hayek Society
Japan
tiny.cc/japanhayek
Japanese for Tax Reform
Japan
jtr.gr.jp
Tokyo Tea Party
Japan
tokyo-teaparty.jp
Institute for Democracy and
Economic Affairs
Malaysia
ideas.org.my
Institute for Leadership and
Development Studies
Malaysia
lead.my
Foundation for Economic
Freedom, Inc.
The
Philippines
fef.org.ph
Freedom Factory
South Korea
freedomfactory.co.kr
Korean Economic Research
Institute
South Korea
keri.org
Open Radio For North Korea
South Korea
english.nkradio.org
The Liberty Society
South Korea
cfe.org
DoiMoi.org
Vietnam
doimoi.org
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EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
Foundation for Economic
Freedom
Albania
fondacionifle.al
Center for Legal, Political, Law
and Economic Studies
Armenia
tiny.cc/clples
Austrian Economics Center
Austria
austriancenter.com
European Coalition for Economic
Growth
Austria
e-growth.eu
Hayek Institut
Austria
hayek-institut.at
Institute for Value-Based
Economics
Austria
wertewirtschaft.org
Free Minds Association
Azerbaijan
azadliqciragi.org
Public Association for Assistance
to Free Economy
Azerbaijan
freeeconomy.az
Scientific Research Mises Center
Belarus
liberty-belarus.info
European Centre for International
Belgium
Political Economy
ecipe.org
Libera!
Belgium
liberavzw.be
Liberaux.org
Belgium
liberaux.org
Ludwig von Mises Institute Europe Belgium
vonmisesinstitute-europe.org
Molinari Economic Institute
Belgium
institutmolinari.org
Murray Rothbard Institute
Belgium
rothbard.be
Center for the Advancement of
Free Enterprise
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
cpa-bih.org
Multi
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
multi.ba
Access to Information Programme
Bulgaria
Foundation
aip-bg.org
Bulgarian Libertarian Society
Bulgaria
libsociety.org
Institute for Market Economics
Bulgaria
ime.bg
Centre for Public Policy and
Economic Analysis
Croatia
cea-policy.hr
Institute for Development of
Individual Liberty
Croatia
iustitia.hr
Linden - Taxpayers’ Association
Croatia
manjiporezi.hr
Center for Economics and Politics Czech Republic cepin.cz
Civic Institute
Czech Republic obcinst.cz
Liberální Institut
Czech Republic libinst.cz
Center for Political Studies
Denmark
cepos.dk
Justitia
Denmark
justitia-int.org
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EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA (CONT’D)
Center for Free Economic Thought Estonia
ebs.ee
Mises Institute Estonia
Estonia
mises.ee
Libera Foundation
Finland
libera.fi
Association pour la Liberté
Économique et le Progrès Social
France
libres.org
Contrepoints
France
contrepoints.org
Contribuables Associés
France
contribuables.org
Fondation iFRAP
France
ifrap.org
Fondation Tocqueville
France
tocquevillefoundation.org
GenerationLibre
France
generationlibre.eu
Institut Coppet
France
institutcoppet.org
Institut de Formation Politique
France
ifpfrance.org
Institut des Libertes
France
institutdeslibertes.org
Institute for Economic Studies
Europe
France
ies-europe.org
Institute for Research in
Economic and Fiscal Issues
France
irefeurope.org
Liberté Chérie
France
liberte-cherie.com
New Economic School-Georgia
Georgia
nesgeorgia.org
Center for European Policy
Germany
cep.eu
Council on Public Policy
Germany
council.uni-bayreuth.de
European Students for Liberty
Germany
studentsforliberty.org/europe
Freiheitswerk
Germany
freiheitswerk.org
Friedrich A. von Hayek Society
Germany
hayek.de
Institute for Free Enterprise
Germany
iuf-berlin.org
Liberales Institut
Germany
freiheit.org
Open Europe Berlin
Germany
openeuropeberlin.de
Prometheus - Das Freiheitsinstitut Germany
prometheusinstitut.de
Walter Eucken Institut
Germany
eucken.de
Greek Liberal Monitor
Greece
liberalmonitor.gr
John Stuart Mill Research Group
Greece
johnstuartmill.org
LearnLiberty.gr
Greece
learnliberty.gr
Liberty Forum of Greece-Markos
Dragoumis
Greece
libertyforum.gr
Free Market Foundation
Hungary
szabadpiacalapitvany.hu
Andriki
Iceland
andriki.is
Centre for Social and Economic
Research
Iceland
rse.is
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EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA (CONT’D)
Icelandic Research Centre for
Iceland
Innovation and Economic Growth
rnh.is
Libertarian Society of Iceland
Iceland
frjalshyggja.is
Samtök skattgreiðenda
Iceland
skattgreidendur.is
Istituto Acton
Italy
it.acton.org
Istituto Bruno Leoni
Italy
brunoleoni.it
Libertiamo
Italy
libertiamo.it
Think-in
Italy
think-in.it
Tocqueville-Acton Centro Studi e
Ricerche
Italy
tocqueville-acton.org
Institute for Development and
Economic Affairs
Kazakhstan
idea.org.kz
Liberal Institute for Policy
Research
Kosovo
tiny.cc/liberalinstitute
Central Asian Free Market
Institute
Kyrgyzstan
cafmi.kg
Liberal Youth Club
Kyrgyzstan
liberal.kg
European Center of Austrian
Economics Foundation
Liechtenstein
ecaef.li
Institute for Political Studies
Liechtenstein
liechtenstein-institut.li
Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Lithuania
llri.lt
Liberal Alternative Institute
Macedonia
lai.mk
Ohrid Institute for Economic
Strategies and International
Affairs
Macedonia
oi.org.mk
Dutch Taxpayers’ Association
Netherlands
belastingbetalers.nl
Quid Novi Foundation
Netherlands
quidnovi.nl
Civita
Norway
civita.no
Minerva Magazine
Norway
minerva.as
Mises Institute Poland
Poland
mises.pl
Globalization Institute
Poland
globalizacja.org
Alexis de Tocqueville Center for
Political and Legal Thought
Poland
centrummysli.pl
Centre for Political Thought
Poland
omp.org.pl
Civil Development Forum
Poland
for.org.pl
Freedom and Entrepreneurship
Foundation
Poland
fundacjawip.org
KoLiber
Poland
koliber.org
Liberté!
Poland
liberteworld.com
39
EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA (CONT’D)
Polish-American Foundation for
Poland
Economic Research and Education
pafere.org
Warsaw Enterprise Institute
Poland
wei.org.pl
Contraditorio Think Tank
Portugal
contraditorio.pt
Institute for Political Studies
Portugal
iep.lisboa.ucp.pt
Instituto Ludwig von Mises
Portugal
Portugal
mises.org.pt
Center for Institutional Analysis
and Development
Romania
cadi.ro
Independent Center for Studies in
Romania
Economics and Law
cised.ro
Society for Individual Liberty
Romania
solib.ro
Hayek Institute
Russia
usanovpv.ru
Center for Liberal-Democratic
Studies
Serbia
clds.rs
Katalaksija
Serbia
katalaksija.com
Libertarian Club Libek
Serbia
libek.org.rs
Conservative Institute of M.R.
Stefanik
Slovakia
institute.sk
F.A. Hayek Foundation
Slovakia
hayek.sk
Institute of Economic and Social
Studies
Slovakia
iness.sk
Lighthouse Association
Slovenia
en.svetilnik-slovenija.org
Carantania Institute
Slovenia
carantania.si
Joze Pucnik Institute
Slovenia
ijpucnik.si
Centro Atlántico de Pensamiento
Estratégico
Spain
catpe.es
Civismo
Spain
civismo.org
Fundacion Iberoamerica Europa
Spain
fundacionfie.org
Fundacion Internacional para la
Libertad
Spain
fundacionfil.org
Institucion Futuro
Spain
ifuturo.org
Instituto Juan de Mariana
Spain
juandemariana.org
Centrum for Rattvisa
Sweden
centrumforrattvisa.se
Ratio Institute
Sweden
ratio.se
Timbro
Sweden
timbro.com
Avenir Suisse
Switzerland
avenir-suisse.ch
Institut Liberal
Switzerland
institutliberal.ch
Liberales Institut
Switzerland
libinst.ch
40 ATLAS NETWORK
EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA (CONT’D)
Medicine & Liberty
Switzerland
medlib.ch
Tajikistan Free Market Centre
Tajikistan
freemarket.tj
R-E-E-D
Ukraine
r-e-e-d.com
Adam Smith Institute
United
Kingdom
adamsmith.org
Centre for Market Reform of
Education
United
Kingdom
cmre.org.uk
Centre for Policy Studies
United
Kingdom
cps.org.uk
Centre for Research into PostCommunist Economies
United
Kingdom
crce.org.uk
Civitas: The Institute for the Study United
of Civil Society
Kingdom
civitas.org.uk
Cobden Centre
United
Kingdom
cobdencentre.org
Conservatives for Liberty
United
Kingdom
con4lib.com
E.G. West Centre
United
Kingdom
ncl.ac.uk
Institute of Economic Affairs
United
Kingdom
iea.org.uk
Istanbul Network for Liberty
United
Kingdom
istanbulnetwork.org
Liberty League
United
Kingdom
uklibertyleague.org
Network for a Free Society
United
Kingdom
networkforafreesociety.org
Open Europe
United
Kingdom
openeurope.org.uk
Policy Exchange
United
Kingdom
policyexchange.org.uk
TaxPayers’ Alliance
United
Kingdom
taxpayersalliance.com
The Freedom Association
United
Kingdom
tfa.net
41
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
Centro para la Apertura y el
Desarrollo de America Latina
Argentina
cadal.org
El Ojo Digital
Argentina
elojodigital.com
Fundación Atlas 1853
Argentina
atlas.org.ar
Fundación Bases
Argentina
fundacionbases.org
Fundación Federalismo y Libertad
Argentina
federalismoylibertad.org
Fundación Instituto David Hume
Argentina
ihume.org
Fundación Libertad
Argentina
libertad.org.ar
Fundación Progreso y Libertad
Argentina
fundacionprogreso.com.ar
Instituto Acton Argentina
Argentina
institutoacton.com.ar
Junior Achievement of Argentina
Argentina
junior.org.ar
Libertad y Progreso
Argentina
libertadyprogresonline.org
LIBRE - Libertad y Responsabilidad Argentina
libertadyresponsabilidad.org
Centro de Estudios de la Realidad
Económica y Social
Bolivia
ceresbolivia.org
Fundación Nueva Democracia
Bolivia
nuevademocracia.org.bo
Instituto de Ciencia, Economía,
Educación y Salud
Bolivia
icees.org.bo
Politicas Publicas para la Libertad
Bolivia
populi-bo.org
Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e
Economía Personalista
Brazil
cieep.org.br
Estudantes Pela Liberdade
Brazil
epl.org.br
Instituto de Estudos Empresariais
Brazil
iee.com.br
Instituto de Formação de Líderes
Brazil
iflbrasil.com.br
Instituto Liberal
Brazil
institutoliberal.org.br
Instituto Liberdade
Brazil
tiny.cc/institutoliberdade
Instituto Ludwig von Mises Brasil
Brazil
mises.org.br
Instituto Millenium
Brazil
imil.org.br
Instituto Ordem Livre
Brazil
ordemlivre.org
Centro de Estudios Públicos
Chile
cepchile.cl
Chile Intercultural
Chile
chileintercultural.cl
Ciudadano Austral
Chile
ciudadanoaustral.org
Fundación Jaime Guzmán
Chile
fjguzman.cl
Fundación para el Progreso
Chile
fppchile.cl
Instituto Democracia y Mercado
Chile
democraciaymercado.com
Instituto OIKOS
Chile
tiny.cc/institutooikos
Instituto Res Publica
Chile
respublica.cl
42 ATLAS NETWORK
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN (CONT’D)
Libertad y Desarrollo
Chile
lyd.org
Fundación Hayek Colombia
Colombia
fundacionhayek.co
Instituto de Ciencia Política
Colombia
icpcolombia.org
Asociación Nacional de Fomento
Económico
Costa Rica
anfe.cr
Instituto de Desarrollo
Empresarial y Acción Social
Costa Rica
ideaslat.org
Centro Regional de Estrategias
Económicas Sostenibles
Dominican
Republic
crees.org.do
Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Economía Política
Ecuador
ieep.org.ec
CREO
El Salvador
creo.org.sv
Fundación Salvadoreña para el
Desarrollo Económico y Social
El Salvador
fusades.org
Centro de Estudios
Económico-Sociales
Guatemala
cees.org.gt
Centro de Investigaciones
Económicas Nacionales
Guatemala
cien.org.gt
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala
ufm.edu
Fundación Eleutera
Honduras
eleutera.org
Centro de Investigación para el
Desarrollo, A.C.
Mexico
cidac.org
Instituto de Pensamiento
Estrategico Agora A.C.
Mexico
ipea.org.mx
México Evalúa
Mexico
mexicoevalua.org
Fundación Nicaraguense para el
Desarollo Económico y Social
Nicaragua
funides.com
Fundación Libertad
Panama
fundacionlibertad.org.pa
Fundación Issos para la Libertad y
el Desarrollo
Paraguay
fundacionissos.org
Andes Libres
Peru
andeslibres.com
Asociación Escuela Cristiana de
Liderazgo
Peru
tiny.cc/aecdl
Contribuyentes por Respeto
Peru
respeto.pe
Democracia y Desarrollo
Peru
ddint.org
Instituto Libertad y Democracia
Peru
ild.org.pe
Instituto Político para la Libertad
Peru
iplperu.org
Latin American and Iberian Law
and Economics Association
Peru
alacde.org
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias
Aplicadas
Peru
upc.edu.pe
43
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN (CONT’D)
Nassau Institute
The Bahamas
nassauinstitute.org
Centro de Economía, Sociedad y
Empresa
Uruguay
ieem.edu.uy
Centro de Estudios de la Realidad
Económica y Social
Uruguay
ceres-uy.org
Centro para la Apertura e el
Desarrollo de America Latina
Uruguay
cadal.org.uy
Centro de Divulgación del
Conocimiento Económico para la
Libertad
Venezuela
cedice.org.ve
FORMA, Formación y Acción
Venezuela
forma.org.ve
Liderazgo y Visión, A.C.
Venezuela
liderazgoyvision.org
Estudiantes por la Libertad
Regional
eslibertad.org
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
Afghanistan Economic and Legal
Studies Organization
Afghanistan
aelso.org
Egyptian Center for Public Policy
Studies
Egypt
ecpps.org
CheragheAzadi.org
(Lamp of Liberty)
Iran
cheragheazadi.org
ChiraiAzadi.org (Lamp of Liberty)
Iraq
chiraiazadi.org
Israel Center for Social &
Economic Progress
Israel
icsep.org.il
Israeli Freedom Movement
Israel
Liberal.co.il
Jerusalem Institute for Market
Studies
Israel
jims-israel.org
Arab Center for Scientific
Research and Humane Studies
Morocco
arab-csr.org
MinbaralHurriyya.org
Morocco
minbaralhurriyya.org
Pal-Think For Strategic Studies
Palestinian
Territories
palthink.org
Kheireddine Institute
Tunisia
fr.institut-kheireddine.org
3H Movement
Turkey
3hhareketi.org
Association for Liberal Thinking
Turkey
liberal.org.tr
Freedom Research Association
Turkey
ozgurlukarastirmalari.com
Mideast Youth
Regional
mideastyouth.com
44 ATLAS NETWORK
SOUTH ASIA
PARTNER
COUNTRY
WEBSITE
QED Bhutan
Bhutan
qedbhutan.com
Amritsar Policy Group
India
tiny.cc/amritsar
Asia Centre for Enterprise
India
acenetwork.asia
Centre for Civil Society
India
ccs.in
Centre for Public Policy Research
India
cppr.in
India Institute
India
indiai.org
Liberty Institute
India
libertyindia.org
Research Foundation for
Governance in India
India
rfgindia.org
Bikalpa, an Alternative
Nepal
bikalpa.net
Samriddhi, The Prosperity
Foundation
Nepal
samriddhi.org
Alternate Solutions Institute
Pakistan
asinstitute.org
Hum-azad.org
Pakistan
hum-azad.org
Policy Research Institute of
Market Economy
Pakistan
primeinstitute.org
Foundation for Economic
Freedom in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
tiny.cc/fefsl
PARTNER
STATE
WEBSITE
Alabama Policy Institute
Alabama
alabamapolicy.org
Alaska Policy Forum
Alaska
alaskapolicyforum.org
Goldwater Institute
Arizona
goldwaterinstitute.org
Language of Liberty Institute
Arizona
languageofliberty.org
Advance Arkansas Institute
Arkansas
advancearkansas.org
Arkansas Policy Foundation
Arkansas
arkansaspolicyfoundation.org
Ayn Rand Institute
California
aynrand.org
Benjamin Rush Institute
California
benjaminrushinstitute.org
California Policy Center
California
calpolicycenter.org
Claremont Institute
California
claremont.org
Hoover Institution
California
hoover.org
im2moro
California
im2moro.com
Independent Institute
California
independent.org
International Society for
Individual Liberty
California
isil.org
UNITED STATES
45
UNITED STATES (CONT’D)
Pacific Legal Foundation
California
pacificlegal.org
Pacific Research Institute
California
pacificresearch.org
Reason Foundation
California
reason.org
Seasteading Institute
California
seasteading.org
Taliesin Nexus
California
talnexus.com
Independence Institute
Colorado
i2i.org
Peak Freedom Forum
Colorado
limitedgovforum.org
Yankee Institute for Public Policy
Studies
Connecticut
yankeeinstitute.org
Caesar Rodney Institute
Delaware
caesarrodney.org
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Delaware
isi.org
America’s Future Foundation
D.C.
americasfuture.org
American Enterprise Institute
D.C.
aei.org
American Federation for Children
D.C.
federationforchildren.com
American Islamic Congress
D.C.
aicongress.org
American Principles Project
D.C.
americanprinciplesproject.org
Americans for Tax Reform
D.C.
atr.org
Atlas Society
D.C.
atlassociety.org
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
D.C.
becketfund.org
Cato Institute
D.C.
cato.org
Competitive Enterprise Institute
D.C.
cei.org
Energy and Environment Legal
Institute
D.C.
eelegal.org
Federalist Society for Law and
Public Policy Studies
D.C.
fed-soc.org
Foundation for Excellence in
Education
D.C.
excelined.org
Freedom Works Foundation
D.C.
freedomworks.org
Fund for American Studies
D.C.
tfas.org
Heritage Foundation
D.C.
heritage.org
Hispanic American Center for
Economic Research
D.C.
hacer.org
Hudson Institute
D.C.
hudson.org
Independent Women’s Forum
D.C.
iwf.org
Ladies of Liberty Alliance
D.C.
iamlola.org
National Center for Public Policy
Research
D.C.
nationalcenter.org
Niskanen Center
D.C.
niskanencenter.org
46 ATLAS NETWORK
UNITED STATES (CONT’D)
Philanthropy Roundtable
D.C.
philanthropyroundtable.org
R Street Institute
D.C.
rstreet.org
Students For Liberty
D.C.
studentsforliberty.org
Tax Foundation
D.C.
taxfoundation.org
Foundation for Government
Accountability
Florida
thefga.org
Interamerican Institute for
Democracy
Florida
intdemocratic.org
James Madison Institute
Florida
jamesmadison.org
Foundation for Economic
Education
Georgia
fee.org
Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Georgia
gppf.org
Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
Hawaii
grassrootinstitute.org
Idaho Freedom Foundation
Idaho
idahofreedom.org
Academy on Capitalism and
Limited Government Foundation
Illinois
academyoncapitalism.org
American Transparency
- OpenTheBooks
Illinois
openthebooks.com
Center for Ethics and
Entrepreneurship at Rockford
University
Illinois
ethicsandentrepreneurship.org
Heartland Institute
Illinois
heartland.org
Illinois Policy Institute
Illinois
illinoispolicy.org
Friedman Foundation for
Educational Choice
Indiana
friedmanfoundation.org
Liberty Fund
Indiana
libertyfund.org
Sagamore Institute for Policy
Research
Indiana
sipr.org
Kansas Policy Institute
Kansas
kansaspolicy.org
Bluegrass Institute for Public
Policy Solutions
Kentucky
bipps.org
Pelican Institute for Public Policy
Louisiana
pelicaninstitute.org
Maine Heritage Policy Center
Maine
mainepolicy.org
International Freedom Education
Foundation
Maryland
theifef.org
Maryland Public Policy Institute
Maryland
mdpolicy.org
Beacon Hill Institute for Public
Policy Research
Massachusetts
beaconhill.org
New England Legal Foundation
Massachusetts
nelfonline.org
Pioneer Institute for Public Policy
Research
Massachusetts
pioneerinstitute.org
47
UNITED STATES (CONT’D)
Acton Institute
Michigan
acton.org
Forum for Citizenship and
Enterprise at the Northwood
University
Michigan
jackmillercenter.org
Mackinac Center for Public Policy Michigan
mackinac.org
Philadelphia Society
Michigan
phillysoc.org
Center of the American
Experiment
Minnesota
americanexperiment.org
Citizens’ Council for Health
Freedom
Minnesota
cchconline.org
Freedom Foundation of
Minnesota
Minnesota
freedomfoundationofminnesota.com
Intellectual Takeout
Minnesota
www.intellectualtakeout.org
Mississippi Center for Public
Policy
Mississippi
mspolicy.org
Show-Me Institute
Missouri
showmeinstitute.org
Foundation for Research on
Economics and the Environment
Montana
free-eco.org
Montana Policy Institute
Montana
montanapolicy.org
Property and Environment
Research Center
Montana
perc.org
Platte Institute for Economic
Research
Nebraska
platteinstitute.org
Nevada Policy Research Institute
Nevada
npri.org
Josiah Bartlett Center for Public
Policy
New
Hampshire
jbartlett.org
Institute for Trade Standards and
Sustainable Development
New Jersey
itssd.org
Just Facts Foundation
New Jersey
justfacts.com
Rio Grande Foundation
New Mexico
riograndefoundation.org
Atlantic Legal Foundation
New York
atlanticlegal.org
Human Rights Foundation
New York
thehrf.org
Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research
New York
manhattan-institute.org
Moving Picture Institute
New York
thempi.org
National Review Institute
New York
nrinstitute.org
Civitas Institute
North
Carolina
nccivitas.org
John Locke Foundation
North
Carolina
johnlocke.org
48 ATLAS NETWORK
UNITED STATES (CONT’D)
Pope Center for Higher Education
Policy
North
Carolina
popecenter.org
Buckeye Institute For Public Policy
Ohio
Solutions
buckeyeinstitute.org
Liberty Foundation of America
Oklahoma
libertyfound.org
Oklahoma Council of Public
Affairs
Oklahoma
ocpathink.org
Cascade Policy Institute
Oregon
cascadepolicy.org
Allegheny Institute for Public
Policy
Pennsylvania
alleghenyinstitute.org
Center for Vision and Values at
the Grove City College
Pennsylvania
visandvals.org
Commonwealth Foundation
Pennsylvania
commonwealthfoundation.org
Foundation for Individual Rights
in Education
Pennsylvania
thefire.org
Free to Choose Network
Pennsylvania
freetochoosenetwork.org
John Jay Institute for Faith,
Society and Law
Pennsylvania
johnjayinstitute.org
Bastiat Society
South
Carolina
bastiatsociety.org
Clemson Institute for the Study of South
Capitalism
Carolina
clemson.edu/capitalism
Initiative for Public Choice &
Market Process
South
Carolina
sb.cofc.edu/centers/publicchoice
South Carolina Policy Council
South
Carolina
scpolicycouncil.org
Beacon Center of Tennessee
Tennessee
beacontn.org
Project for the Study of Liberal
Democracy at the Rhodes College
Tennessee
rhodes.edu
Institute for Policy Innovation
Texas
ipi.org
National Center for Policy
Analysis
Texas
ncpa.org
Radical Social Entrepreneurs
Texas
radicalsocialentreps.org
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Texas
texaspolicy.com
Libertas Institute
Utah
libertasutah.org
Sutherland Institute
Utah
sutherlandinstitute.org
Ethan Allen Institute
Vermont
ethanallen.org
Adam Smith Program at the
University of Richmond
Virginia
jepson.richmond.edu
American Legislative Exchange
Council
Virginia
alec.org
49
UNITED STATES (CONT’D)
Americans for Limited
Government Foundation
Virginia
getliberty.org
Americans for Prosperity
Foundation
Virginia
americansforprosperity.org
Bill of Rights Institute
Virginia
billofrightsinstitute.org
Center for Competitive Politics
Virginia
campaignfreedom.org
Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Virginia
Foundation
freedomandprosperity.org
Future of Freedom Foundation
Virginia
fff.org
Galen Institute
Virginia
galen.org
Institute for Faith, Work &
Economics
Virginia
tifwe.org
Institute for Humane Studies
Virginia
theihs.org
Institute for Justice
Virginia
ij.org
Institute to Reduce Spending
Virginia
reducespending.org
Law and Economics Center at
George Mason University
Virginia
masonlec.org
Leadership Institute
Virginia
leadershipinstitute.org
Media Research Center
Virginia
mediaresearch.org
Mercatus Center at George Mason
Virginia
University
mercatus.org
Mont Pelerin Society
Virginia
montpelerin.org
National Journalism Center
Virginia
yaf.org/NationalJournalismCenter.aspx
National Taxpayers Union
Virginia
ntu.org
Philanthropic Enterprise
Virginia
thephilanthropicenterprise.org
State Policy Network
Virginia
spn.org
Thomas Jefferson Institute for
Public Policy
Virginia
thomasjeffersoninst.org
Virginia Institute for Public Policy
Virginia
virginiainstitute.org
Young America’s Foundation
Virginia
yaf.org
Freedom Foundation
Washington
myfreedomfoundation.com
Washington Policy Center
Washington
washingtonpolicy.org
Liberty21 Institute
Wisconsin
liberty21.org
MacIver Institute
Wisconsin
maciverinstitute.com
Miller Upton Programs at Beloit
College
Wisconsin
beloit.edu/upton
Wisconsin Policy Research
Institute
Wisconsin
wpri.org
50 ATLAS NETWORK
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Atlas Network serves as the center of gravity for the
worldwide freedom movement. That is why we devote a
significant effort to marketing and communications. Atlas
Network remade its online presence in 2014 with a totally
redesigned mobile responsive website, a new approach to
social media, and its biweekly email newsletter World10,
featuring the work of Atlas Network partners. Atlas
Network’s online presence is fueled by a content strategy
that brings to life Atlas Network’s various programs,
trainings, and events, as well as the inspirational news of
our 458 partners in 96 countries.
Atlas Network’s Grace Courter and Daniel Anthony at State Policy
Network’s annual meeting in September 2014, accepting the award
for best new website presented by Spark Freedom — a free-market
marketing and communications consultancy.
Facebook.com/AtlasNetwork
Twitter.com/AtlasNetwork
Instagram.com/AtlasNetwork
If you haven’t done so already, visit the new AtlasNetwork.org on desktop or on your mobile
device. Atlas Network worked with the Chicago-based digital agency Killswitch Collective to
design a totally mobile responsive site because more and more of the world’s population access
the Internet using their smartphones.
51
MEDIA PLACEMENT
In 2014, Atlas Network’s team wrote and placed several op-eds, including President Alex Chafuen’s
regular column in Forbes, where he wrote 30 articles in 2014. Here is a selection of the critical
analysis that Atlas Network authors applied to key issues in the freedom movement:
Forbes
TITLE “The 4 Major Challenges the U.S.
Economy Faces in 2014”
AUTHOR Alex Chafuen
DATE
Jan. 1, 2014
OUTLET OUTLET
TITLE DATE Vecer (Slovenia)
“Neoliberalism does not exist”
Interview with Tom G. Palmer
Sept. 29, 2014
TITLE AUTHOR DATE The Daily Caller
“Who Has the Courage and Clarity
to Topple Today’s Berlin Walls?”
Brad Lips
Oct. 8, 2014
OUTLET
Forbes
TITLE “Why So Many Poor Can’t Improve
Their Lot: We Need to Look at Unequal
Distribution of Economic Freedom”
AUTHOR Alex Chafuen
DATE
Jan. 15, 2014
OUTLET TITLE AUTHOR DATE Wall Street Journal
“A Currency Board for Ukraine”
Judy Shelton
Feb. 26, 2014
TITLE AUTHOR DATE National Review Online
“Join the Inequality Debate”
Brad Lips
April 30, 2014
AUTHOR DATE The American Spectator
“Crony Capitalism Critics Claim
the Moral High Ground”
Brad Lips
May 9, 2014
OUTLET
OUTLET
OUTLET
TITLE
Forbes
TITLE “Argentina’s Default: Playing
Politics With U.S. Courts And
Wall Street”
AUTHOR Alex Chafuen
DATE Aug. 6, 2014
OUTLET RealClearMarkets
AUTHOR Jerry Jordan
TITLE “Easy Money Isn’t the Source of Prosperity”
DATE Oct. 10, 2014
OUTLET
The Hill
TITLE “Beware a Magnanimous Fed”
AUTHOR
Judy Shelton
DATE Oct. 24, 2014
OUTLET
TITLE AUTHOR DATE OUTLET
Investor’s Business Daily
“Fall Of The Berlin Wall: Fences
To Liberty Still Remain”
Brad Lips
Nov. 7, 2014
Greek Liberal Monitor
Interview with Tom G. Palmer
DATE Dec. 12, 2014
OUTLET
AUTHOR TITLE DATE OUTLET
Washington Times
Matt Warner
“Millennials Are Gravitating Toward
Entrepreneurship Rather Than Government”
Dec. 25, 2014
52 ATLAS NETWORK
THE ATLAS NETWORK TEAM
Chelsea Albers
Chantilly Alberti
Paolo Angelini
Daniel Anthony
Cindy Cerquitella
Dr. Alex Chafuen
Brittany Cobb
Grace Courter
Associate Director of
Development and Events
Vice President of Marketing
and Communications
Development and
Events Manager
Harry Kalsted
Development and
Operations Associate
Development and
Events Manager
Atlas Leadership
Academy Director
Office Manager
Reza Ansari
Outreach and Persian
Programs Manager
Erwin Chaloupka
President
Economic Policy Associate for
Central and Eastern Europe
Marketing and
Communications Associate
Operations Manager
Kristina Crane
Eric D. Dixon
Autumn Lansford
Stephanie
Giovanetti Lips
Chief Executive Officer
Atlas Leadership Academy
Program Associate
Director of Outreach
Editor
Brad Lips
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Laura Liu
Economic and
Trade Policy Advisor
Rómulo López
Elisa Martins
Director of Finance
Associate Director
of Programs
Nick Miller
Development and
Events Associate
Executive Vice President of
International Programs
Institute Relations and
Programs Associate
Casey Pifer
Katherine Price
Development and
Events Associate
Research Assistant
Clark Ruper
Johannes Schmidt
Jeremy Schofield
Gonzalo Schwarz
Dr. Tom G. Palmer
Director of Development
Alexander Skouras
Associate Director of
Institute Relations
Program Associate
Matt Warner
Vice President of Programs
and Institute Relations
IT Manager
Anaïs Reig
Director of Grants
and Awards
54 ATLAS NETWORK
ATLAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dan Grossman
Chairman
Charles Albers
Luis Henrique Ball
Timothy Browne
Alex Chafuen
Debbi Gibbs
Peter Goettler
Nikolaos Monoyios
Gerry Ohrstrom
George Pearson
Andrea Millen Rich
René Scull
Linda Whetstone
Ambassador Curtin Winsor, Jr.
William Sumner (Emeritus)
ATLAS ADVISORY COUNCIL
Scott Barbee
Robert Boyd
John Cerasuolo
Derwood Chase
Stuart Chase
Barry Conner
Sam Corcos
John Dalsheim
Sean Fieler
Dan Gressel
Pamela Hoiles
Nicolas Ibañez
Bob Jefferies
Leo Kayser III
Jeffrey Kofsky
Warren Lammert III
Ron Manners
Oscar Garcia Mendoza
Luis Perez
Borut Prah
Nadine Prah
Jed Sunden
Lauren Templeton
Jon Basil Utley
Mariela Vicini
Kathryn Washburn
Shari Williams
Garry Kasparov
Templeton Leadership Fellow
Michel Kelly-Gagnon
Dobson-Lengvari Fellow
Casey Lartigue, Jr.
Asia Outreach Fellow
Mario Vargas Llosa
Templeton Leadership Fellow
Emeritus
William J. Luther
Sound Money Project Fellow
Deroy Murdock
Senior Fellow
Judy Shelton
Senior Fellow
Robin Sitoula
Senior Program Advisor
FELLOWS
George Ayittey
Fellow
Nicolás Cachanosky
Sound Money Project Fellow
William Dennis
Senior Fellow
Rainer Heufers
Think Tank MBA Senior
Fellow
Jerry L. Jordan
Sound Money Project Senior
Fellow
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FINANCIALS
For the first time in Atlas Network’s history, its annual expenses exceeded the $10 million mark.
The net loss recorded in 2014 is a result of putting to use significant multi-year gifts that were
booked in 2013, as explained in last year’s Year In Review report.
The graph showing trailing three-year averages in revenue and expenses gives a sense of Atlas
Network’s growth during the last decade, averaging 13 percent per annum. This growth is
entirely attributable to voluntary gifts by our generous supporters. Atlas Network does not accept
government funding and it is not endowed.
Atlas Network is proud to report again that fully 90 percent of its 2014 expenses were attributable
to the costs of programs that advance Atlas Network’s mission to strengthen the worldwide
freedom movement.
2014 REVENUE
A DECADE OF GROWTH
Using 3 year trailing average
5,412,429
12,000,000
3,692,992
10,000,000
Corporations
176,330
8,000,000
Other Income
201,106
Individuals
$
Foundations
Total Revenue
$ 9,482,857
0
$
9,238,443
Management
356,801
Development
681,796
Total Expenses
4,000,000
2,000,000
2014 EXPENSES
Programs
6,000,000
$10,277,040
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Revenue
Expenses
7% 3%
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
Cash and
Equivalents
Receivables
$
3,206,937
2,702,080
Other Assets
256,038
Liabilities
(177,585)
Net Assets
$ 5,987,470
90%
PROGRAMS & GRANTS
DEVELOPMENT
MANAGEMENT
56 ATLAS NETWORK
458 96
2014
BY THE
NUMBERS
90
INDEPENDENT
PARTNERS
COUNTRIES
WORLDWIDE
OUNTRIES
NUMBER OF C TED
EN
ES
REPR
148
1,000
NUMBER OF TED
RESEN
PARTNERS REP
INDIVIDUALS
TRAINED
IN 2014
34
ATLAS LEADERSHIP
ACADEMY GRADUATES
215,067
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: 25
NUMBER OF PARTNERS REPRESENTED: 34
IN 2014, ATLAS NETWORK GAVE:
ATLASNETWORK.ORG WEB SESSIONS
$4,340,000
49,379
SIZE OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITY
INCLUDING FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
MEDIA
53,600 SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS
42,769
52,000
6,610
1,600
PAGE LIKES
FOLLOWERS
INTERACTIONS
INTERACTIONS
IN STRATEGIC GRANTS TO 177 PARTNERS IN 68 COUNTRIES
$180,000
IN AWARDS TO 23 PARTNERS IN 10 COUNTRIES
ATLAS NETWORK HELD
31 EVENTS WITH A
TOTAL OF
2,800
ATTENDEES
MORE THAN
250
NEWS UPDATES ABOUT
ATLAS NETWORK
PARTNERS PUBLISHED ON
ATLASNETWORK.ORG IN 2014.
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A THANK YOU FROM ATLAS NETWORK’S PRESIDENT
To our very generous supporters, thank you so much for your
support over all these years. I can only imagine how grateful our
founder, Antony Fisher, would have been to each of you. I had
the privilege of working with Antony Fisher from September 1985
until his death in July 1988. In the 1985 mid-year report, Antony
listed 27 think tanks in 17 countries in our network. Thanks to
you, we now have 458 partners in 96 countries.
One of our former trustees, Bob Waterman, who co-authored the
business management bestseller In Search of Excellence with Tom
Peters, described Antony as an inspiring product champion. Indeed
he was. He was convinced that conducting public policy research
of high quality, rigorous enough to be used in universities but
accessible to educated laymen, disseminated by independent think
tanks, was the lever that could lift the world to new heights.
Antony was gentle, polite, firm, and trusting, and committed to
spreading the ideas of liberty throughout the world. This year we
celebrate 100 years since his birth. Not a single day passes without
me remembering his lessons and legacy.
Thank you for helping Atlas Network carry on the legacy of
Sir Antony Fisher. We could not do it without your support.
In liberty,
Dr. Alex Chafuen, President
58 ATLAS NETWORK
ATLAS NETWORK SUPPORTERS
A special thank you to the Lilly Endowment, the Smith Family Foundation,
the John Templeton Foundation, and Templeton Religion Trust.
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE
Charles Albers
Scott and Vanessa Barbee
Beach Foundation
The Bodman Foundation
Bruni Foundation
Chase Foundation of Virginia
Chiaroscuro Foundation
Ravenel and Beth Curry
Arthur Dantchik
William H. Donner
Foundation
Bill and Rebecca Dunn
Earhart Foundation
Bryant and Linda Edwards
Peter and Cynthia Goettler
Google
Dan Grossman
Philip Harvey
Lotte and John Hecht
Memorial Foundation
J.P. Humphreys Foundation
Krieble Foundation
George and Inez Lengvari
Ken and Frayda Levy
Lilly Endowment Inc.
The Lowndes Foundation
The Modzelewski Charitable
Trust
The Valerie Brackett and
Nikolaos Monoyios
Charitable Fund
Montreal Economic Institute
Gerry Ohrstrom
Lovett and Ruth Peters
Foundation
Borut and Nadine Prah
Ronald Rankin
Reams Foundation
Andrea and Howard Rich
Rising Tide Foundation
Chris and Melodie Rufer
Sarah Scaife Foundation
Searle Freedom Trust
Smith Family Foundation
Sunmark Foundation
John Templeton Foundation
Templeton Religion Trust
Jeff and Janine Yass
George M. Yeager
Fred and Sandra Young
HAYEK CLUB
Luis H. Ball
Christine Blundell
Sean Fieler
Oscar García Mendoza
Bob and Sandy Gelfond
Debbi Gibbs
Neal Goldman and Marlene
Mieske
Pamela Hoiles
Charles and Ann Johnson
Foundation
John P. Kayser
John Kunze
Paul Magnuson
Ron Manners
George and Marilyn Pearson
John William Pope Foundation
Redmond Mills Trust
Roe Foundation
Judy Shelton
William O. Sumner
Trzcinski Foundation
Kathy Washburn
Dr. James Whitaker
BENEFACTORS’ CLUB
John Bryan
John and Jennifer Cerasuolo
Thomas Cushman
Robert Donaldson
Garvey Kansas Foundation
Daniel Gressel
Albert and Ethel Herzstein
Charitable Foundation
J.C. Huizenga
Jeffrey Kofsky
Warren Lammert
William Lannin
Media Research Center
John H. Quinn
Robert Sirico
State Policy Network
Jon Basil Utley
Von Ehr Foundation
Cynthia Kossmann Wilkinson
Ambassador Curtin and Ann
Winsor
ATLAS CLUB
Aequus Institute
Christian Bailey
Scott Banister
Jean C. Boggs
Tim and Denyse Browne
William W. Caruth III
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Alex Chafuen
John Chisholm
George E. Coleman Jr.
Foundation
Ralph Coti
Giovanna Cugnasca
Beverly Danielson
Ken W. Davis Foundation
Kent R. Davis
William C. Dennis
DonorsTrust
Jason Dorsett
Dr. Roy Eappen
Gerald Fickenscher
Richard Fink
Ann Fitzgerald
Peter Flinch
Free to Choose Network
The Friedman Foundation for
Educational Choice, Inc.
Fundación Para el Progreso
Henry Gailliot
Robert W. Garthwait
Alejandro Garza Laguera
Garnet Giles
Douglas Ginsburg and Deecy
Gray
Kathy Gornik
Robert Graham
Dolores Grande
Robert Granieri
Ingrid Gregg
William Hall
Todd Randall Hansen
Agnes Hayden
Tatnall Hillman
David Hoffman
Kenneth Howlett
David Hutzelman
John Irwin III
Thomas Campbell Jackson
Gordon and Frances Johnson
Leo Kayser
Frank Kinn
Richard J. Kossmann
Barbara Kronewitter
Frederick W. Lambert
Jay and Sally Lapeyre
John Lillard
John and Anne Lindl
Paul Linthorst
Brad and Stephanie Lips
Thomas Lips
Jan Malek
Kris Mauren
Bob and Nancy McIntosh
William Mellor
Francis J. Menton
Harry Messenheimer
Kyle Miller
Anthony and Susan Morris
Birch Mullins
Lucretia Nelson
Susan Niederhoffer
Dr. Joseph Olson
Wayne Olson and
Sandra Miller
Howard Payne
Marjorie Peters
Robert Poole
Lewis and Martha Randall
Randolph Foundation
Reid Family Foundation
Kenneth Rice
Donald Rumsfeld Foundation
Justine and William Russell
Colby Sandlian
Reid F. Schindler
Stilla T. Schmidt
Kurt Schuler
William Scritsmier
René Scull
David Shellenberger
Mark Shevitz
Binky Peters Stephenson Strom
Harry Teasley
Kenneth Templeton
Joan Thompson
Kristine Trainor
Margaret Tunnell
Richard Wallace
Kerry Welsh
Linda Whetstone
Lawrence White
Mike and Lori Yashko
Willard Ziel
FISHER LEGACY SOCIETY
We would like to thank the
members of the Fisher Legacy
Society, Atlas Network’s planned
giving program.
Charles Albers
John* and Christine Blundell
Dorian Fisher*
Dan Grossman
Thor Halvorssen
George L. Hesse*
Bruce Jacobs*
David Keyston
Brad and Stephanie Lips
Ron Manners
Tom G. Palmer
George Pearson
Robert Poole
Vida Ribnikar*
Jan E.G. Smit*
William O. Sumner
Will Wohler
*Deceased
To learn more about Atlas
Network’s opportunities
for giving, please contact
Stephanie Giovanetti Lips at
202-449-8449 or
[email protected].
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