Templeton Freedom Awards 2004
In order to highlight some of the most innovative work being done by think tanks as players in the public policy process, Atlas Economic Research Foundation announces its first group of Templeton Freedom Awards to recognize the recent achievements and future promise of independent think thanks. The winners in the four categories of the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty are as follows:
The Templeton Prize for Social Entrepreneurship recognizes think tank efforts to mix hands-on projects to benefit the poor with work in the realm of ideas to build a stronger civil society.
Winner: Liberty Institute (India)
Runner-up: Fraser Institute (Canada)
The Templeton Prize for Student Outreach honors institutes engaged in innovative projects to improve students' understanding of the causes and consequences of individual freedom.
Winner: Centre for Civil Society (India)
Runner-up: National Center for Policy Analysis (Texas)
The Templeton Prize for Ethics and Values honors research institutes that study the relationship between enterprise and enlightened systems of ethics and values.
Winner: Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Michigan)
Runner-up: Instituto Cultural Ludwig von Mises (Mexico)
The Templeton Freedom Prize for Free Market Solutions to Poverty honors think tanks that research and promote solutions to poverty through free enterprise, sound legal institutions and entrepreneurship.
Winner: The Institute for Liberty & Democracy (Peru)
Runners-up: National Economic Research Institute (China), Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (Canada),
and Law Review Project (South Africa)
Templeton Freedom Award Grants for Institute Excellence are given to outstanding think tanks that show great future promise, especially in difficult parts of the world that have seen few efforts to improve the understanding of the free society.
The 2004 Award Grant recipients are:
Association for Liberal Thinking (Turkey)
CEDICE (Venezuela)
Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (Serbia)
Centre for Civil Society (India)
Civic Institute (Czech Republic)
Free Market Foundation (South Africa)
Fundación Libertad (Argentina)
Hayek Institute (Slovakia)
Institut Economique de Montreal (Canada)
Institute of Economic Affairs (Ghana)
Instituto Bruno Leoni (Italy)
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica (Ecuador)
Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile)
Liberty Institute (India)
Lithuanian Free Market Institute (Lithuania)
