Gruter Institute for Law and
Behavioral Research
The goal of the program “Free Enterprise: Values in Action” is to develop and widely disseminate a scientifically grounded, value-based description of free enterprise. The approach is inspired by Sir John Templeton’s conviction that values play a central role in free enterprise, and his emphasis on the importance of putting those values into action around the world.

Commanding Heights PBS Series
The Foundation is a proud co-sponsor of “Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy,” a three-part, six-hour PBS documentary series that tells the inside story of our new global economy. Based on the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, the series chronicles the emergence of a new era of globalization, featuring remarkable interviews with world leaders and thinkers in 19 countries on five continents.

Globalization Education Project
The Institute for Humane Studies, based at George Mason University, has created a popular interactive educational website aimed at tapping into college students’ manifest concern about globalization and free enterprise principles, especially in relation to the alleviation of poverty.

Project on Religion, Political
Economy and Society
Under the leadership of Professors Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary of Harvard University, the project will carry out research on the role of religion in the economic, political and social development of nations and individuals.

Centre for Civil Society in India
The Centre is a research and educational think tank, based in New Delhi, dedicated to the principles of civil society, including limited government, rule of law, free trade and competitive markets. The Foundation’s capacity-building grant will enable researchers to document and disseminate the regulatory framework in India and survey its impact on small-scale entrepreneurs in the cities and towns across India.

The Central Liberal Truth
Publicity Program
The Central Liberal Truth is the principal product of the Culture Matters Research Project. This grant will ensure it reaches a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners, development institutions, religious leaders, universities and research institutions, and other voices influencing popular opinion.

Religion and Social Capital
This grant has been designed to explore the inter-relationship of religion and social capital, with a focus on the effects of religious competition on social capital. Researchers from Harvard and Notre Dame plan to review 7 major research questions, in an effort to yield insight into these relationships.

Liberty for Latin America
Via the Independent Institute, the Foundation awarded a research and book grant to Alvaro Vargas Llosa to examine the need for market-based reforms in Latin America.

Foundation for Teaching Economics
With major support from the Foundation, the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE) has created a landmark set of classroom ready materials and lesson plans for high school teachers entitled “Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?” The new unit will guide classroom teachers in presenting information about the innate fairness of capitalism and the character traits (such as future-mindedness, self-discipline and reliability) that undergird free enterprise.

Research on Entrepreneurship
in Youth
The Foundation awarded a research and book grant to Professor Marilyn Kourilsky at UCLA to conduct a comprehensive assessment of high school student aspirations, knowledge, opinions and education about entrepreneurship.

Institute for Economic Affairs
The aim of this project is to bring together the best economics teachers at ‘A level’ (17 and 18 year olds) in Great Britain and provide them with the opportunity to explore the potential benefits of free-market solutions to the issues of the day and the moral case for free markets. The project will also provide ‘A level’ student seminars to involve the best economics students as well.

The Transmission of Religion Across Generations: Spiritual Capital In Multigenerational Families Today
This project, lead by Vern Bengston at the University of Southern California, seeks to answer several enduring questions concerning the ways in which religious values and practices are passed down or transformed from generation to generation, how families use religion as a solidifying force for connecting individuals within and between generations, and how these processes may have changed in the context of the massive social and technological changes of recent years.