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INSIDEStanding Up for the ideasof A Free Society p.2

Training Future Leaders p.8

Rewarding Excellence p.11

YEAR IN REVIEW

How Tyranny s Loss BecameLiberty s Gain p.15

Connecting the Freedom Movement p.17

Expanding the Audience for Liberty p.19

Special Atlas Initiatives p.23


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wo decades after one of the most liberating yearsin world history, there are still walls that silencepeople, walls that oppress, walls that threaten,

walls that divide and discriminate barriers erected by governments to limit or steal each human beings right to

life, liberty and property. When, in 1989, the sprit of peacefulrevolution for the cause of freedom blanketed the world,courageous people lled town squares and said no to statecontrol. They were demonstrating for the freedom tospeak, travel, exchange goods, hold on to their earnings, andmake their own decisions. Today, we must revive the spirit of these brave freedom- ghters here in the U.S. where a softsocialism threatens to suffocate our prosperity and liberty, andin many countries worldwide that seem to have forgotten ornever experienced the blessings of liberty.

For this purpose, the Atlas Economic Research Foundationdevelops and nurtures think tanks that can play a constructiverole in the long-term public debate. Atlas is a catalyst totheir success, by providing training and resources, and by providing a connection to a dynamic network of think tanks and talented individuals devoted to individual liberty.

The following pages of this Year in Review will highlight theexciting and ambitious efforts of some of the most effectiveintellectual entrepreneurs that have been supported by Atlas. You will also read about the innovative programs housedat Atlas which are creating a larger, more effective movementdedicated to Americas founding principles of individualliberty, free markets, and rule of law.

20 YearsLater, MoreWalls toTear Down

UPFOR THE IDEASA FREE SOCIETY

Atlas vice president and director of the Atlas Global Initiative, Tom Palmer, introduces platforms forspreading classical liberal ideas in over 14 languages.

Atlas president Alex Chafuen (center) with Hiroshi Yoshida (right) and Masaru Uchiyama (left) of Japanese for Tax Reform, winner of the 2008 Templeton Freedom Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Anthony Livanios (Hellenic Leadership Institute, Greece) and Atlas vice presidediscuss liberty in Egypt at the Atlas Club Brie ng before the 2008 Freedom Dinner.

For more than 15 years Atl ported my institute both nanciaand with priceless advice ining the ideas of freedom thrtanks. I remember very stroin 1997 Atlas helped me toa free market conference inGreece. That was a crucial because seven years later, i political leadership that attetwo-day conference won thelections and promoted the free market policies since talso helped to create a newculture among market oriennizations in Greece. Thank

- ANTHONY LIVANIOS, HLEADERSHIP IN

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At the end of the Cold War Francis Fukayama proclaimed an end of history, yet it is clear that the battle of ideascontinues, and that the future of indi vidual liberty and free enterprise still requires eternal vigilance.

Big government has been on the march in 2009. Now more than ever, those who cherish freedom need to beengaged in the public debate, attract newcomers to the cause, and stand up for the ideas of a free society.

This is happening, and Atlas takes a great deal of pride in how much of t his activity is driven by allies in the think tank network that has been cultivated over nearly three decades. As the next pages of this review explain, Atlaspartners are having some of the most impact on the hottest policy topics (health care, energy) and most hostilecountries (Zimbabwe, Venezuela).


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Economic Libertyand Prosperity When President Obama beganlauding Spain and its green jobsinitiative as an example for the U.S.to emulate, the Instituto Juan deMariana in Madrid found anopportunity.

It has authoritative research to pres-ent, and a charismatic actor-turned-Ph.D. economist in place as executivedirector to tout the results. GabrielCalzada, who also serves as professorat Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,released a study in March of 2009dispelling the myths about green jobs. IJMs Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renew-able Energy Sourcesfound that forevery one green job created by theSpanish government, 2.2 real jobs were lost in the private economy.The study also found that in the pastdecade, 9 out of every 10 green jobscreated by Spanish government sub -sidies dont exist anymore. At 18%Spain now boasts one of the highestunemployment rates in the devel-oped world.

While Obama toured the country promoting the Spanish model,Calzada was testifying to the HouseEnergy and Commerce Committee on the real economic i mpact: higher

residential electric bills, a burden on energy-intensive companies, and a slow economic recovery in Spain.

This summer, activists with the American Energy Alli ance, buoyed by Calzadas ndings, toured the U.S. determined to kill t he Waxman-Markey energy bill that promises to deliver the same results as its Iberian counterpart.Coupled with Calzadas testimonies on the Hill this fall, liberty hasrepresentation.

Instituto Juan de Mariana is a 2009 Fisher Venture Grantee and was thewinner of a 2008 Templeton Freedom Award for Special Achievement by aYoung Institute.

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Freedom ofChoiceThe battle over healthcare policy isreaching new heights in the UnitedStates and at times it seems the prin -ciples of medical freedom are beingever-marginalized. Allies of Atlas arestriving to make sure libertys voiceis heard among the din of misin-formation and statist rhetoric. Thisincludes established groups like theNational Center for Policy Anal-

ysis (USA) (one of the rst bene -ciaries of Atlas support in the early 1980s), as well as new efforts suchas the Benjamin Rush Society , aproject incubated at the Pacifc Re -search Institute (USA) . It aims toposition medical schools the way the

Federalist Society has positioned U.S. law schools by holding debates betweenmedical professionals and students at Columbia University, Harvard MedicalSchool, George Washington School of Medicine, and others. Atlas senior fellow Deroy Murdock spoke at the BRSs October forum at Harvard, commenting:We hope to nd more Americans in medi cine who share our views and deploy them in their lab coats and with their stethoscopes to advance medical in -novation and limited-government, patient-centered health care reforms.

This spring, Atlas was able to connect two intellectual entrepreneurs devotingtheir careers to the cause of choice in medicine. Frequent public policy com -mentator for Chicagos Heartland Institute , Bart Madden, has been an Atlassupporter for years. Madden has been touring the nation t his year introducinghis proposal for an alternative track option within the FDA drug approval pro-cess, giving terminally ill patients the choice to take experimental drugs. Afterspeaking on a panel at the 2009 Atlas Liberty Forum with Alphonse Crespo of Medicine & Liberty (Switzerland), the two are working to establish a center

in Europe that will promote choice in medicine and create an environment where Maddens Dual Tracking can be adopted and serve as a model. They will not be alone. Already, efforts in Sweden by t he think tank Eudoxa , led by fellow Liberty Forum panelist Waldemar Ingdahl, is working to promoteaccess to unapproved drugs that has attracted the ear of over one hundredEuropean health of cials. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute has pro-duced similar projects and the organization Japanese for Tax Reform hastranslated Maddens work.

Top: Gabriel Calzada (Instituto Ju Mariana, Spain) testifying before tCommittee on Energy IndependenWarming on September 24, 2009.

Bottom: Calzada (center) and his wand daughter Sara (left) joined by Namazaliev (Central Asia Free M Institute, Kyrgyzstan) and Jamie Sroot Institute of Hawaii, USA) at T Experience in Niagara-on-the-Lak August. Calzada gave a humorousof his studys ndings and the reaction oglobal warming alarmists followin

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or too long, medical ctitioners have ignored icy, but have been happy

complain when policys in the way of doing ours. The Benjamin Rushciety debates are just thet of thing we need to get re involved in the policy

bates that affect oureers, our patients, and own lives.

s Scott, Dean of George Washington Uni -y School of Medicine and Health Sciences

moderator of the GWU debate

er Delaware Governor and Chairman of ational Center for Policy Research, Petent, on Capitol Hill promoting NCPAs FreeHealth Care Now campaign and peti-which received over 1.3 million signaturese it was presented to Congress.


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Transparencyand Rule of LawIn Croatia, insisting on the rule of law can be dangerous business.Natasha Srdoc, co-founder of the

Adriatic Institute (Croatia), hasspoken at Atlas events about the ha-rassment and intimidation triggered by her work exposing corruption inher native Croatia. The governmentordered an audit of the Institute to

identify funding sources andactivities. Other opposition journal -ists have mysteriously disappeared,or have wound up dead.

But Srdoc, of cially an enemy of thestate, pressed on in 2009 writingand speaking about certain govern-ment of cials penchant for money laundering, secret public-private contracts, embezzlement, and otherkleptocratic tendencies. The work of the Adriatic Institute has had results.Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was pressured to resign as the extent of hisabuse of power was exposed.

Since 2004, the Adriatic Institute has aimed to engage leaders and reach thegeneral public with criticisms of the status quo by publishing a plethora of articles and regularly appearing on Croatias broadcast media including aprime time television debate with the nance minister. The Institute furtherspotlighted Croatias problems through international events, including Atlas programs, and brie ngs for elected of cials in Europe and t he U.S. Thishighly leveraged strategy augmented both external and internal pressuresthat directly contributed to Sanaders resignation in July of 2009, perhapssparking Eastern Europes new revolution.

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Property RightsLong hailed as a voice of reason in Venezuela, Centro de Divulgacindel Conocimiento Econmico (CEDICE) bravely turned up theheat this year countering PresidentChvezs attempts to monopolize pow -er and squash dissent. In March 2009,it launched a country-wide campaignagainst the governments take-over of private property using catch phrases

like No a la Ley Cubana (No to theCuban Law). Stark posters of na -ked Venezuelans (symbolizing thegovernments taking of everything but peoples clothes) have appearedin subway stations, city walls and billboards, and in El Nacional , thecountrys most widely read daily. Themessage became so effective Chvezordered criminal investigations andhas banned the campaign.

In May, CEDICEs 25th anniversary celebration, co-sponsored by Atlas,

attracted over 800 participants and 100 international guests. Repeated ver- bal attacks and intimidation by the Chvez regime increased the turnout andcreated unprecedented media attention. Foreign think tanks, such as the CatoInstitute in the U.S., and Mexican-based network, RELIAL , conducted back-to-back workshops in association with CEDICE. Just prior to the main event, Atlas organized a workshop, chaired by Alvaro Vargas Llosa of the U.S.-basedIndependent Institute , for editors of Latin American media outlets, many of which received Atlass support to attend the conference.

The presence of high pro le gures such as Peruvian author, Mario VargasLlosa, former Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga, and think tank leader CristinLarroulet of Libertad y Desarrollo in Chile added an important elementof prestige and transparency, but also tension. Vargas Llosa and his son, theaforementioned Alvaro, were both detained at the airport and sternly told not tocriticize the government.

Neither cooperated. Before hundreds of de ant liberals, the elder Vargas Llosastated, We dont want Venezuela to become a totalitarian communist state!Following the event Chvez engaged Mario Vargas Llosa in a public tte--tte,using his state-controlled television as a mouthpiece to suggest the two shoulddebate on air, to which the author enthusiastically accepted. How often does adictator invite conversation over his policies? It was too good to be true how-ever, Chvez quickly retracted his challenge.

Natasha Srdoc (Adriatic Institute, works to tear down the remaining liberty in Croatia by exposing corrupt o promoting rule of law and open m

DICE won Atlass 2008 Fredaey Prize for Advancing Liberty,04 Templeton Freedom Award nt for Institute Excellence, and r Antony Fisher International morial Award in 1992.

s Alex Chafuen congratulates Rafael

zo (left), chairman of CEDICE, as Marios Llosa applauds at CEDICEs 25thversary celebration.

alized property takes away what is yours. No to the Cuban Law: one of many campaign postersppear in the subway stations, billboards, and newspapers in Venezuela to rally support forte property rights.

The walls that remaCroatia have destroyrule of law and dismthe free society. Thetects of the wall musexposed for Croatia

free of fear and to reour society. - Natasha Srdoc, Adriatic Institute


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Free Market ReformIn May, nine African think tanks in the Atlasnetwork released The Zimbabwe Papers: A Positive Agenda for Zimbabwean Renewal, which proposes concrete policy measures toimprove the dire conditions in that country.

The commissioners of The Zimbabwe Papers crafted a systematic approach to reformand released the papers to the media in early June. On June 9 The Zimbabwe Paperswerepresented to Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition

leader and Prime Minister in the power-sharing government, along with histop economic policy team and three of his cabinet ministers. The 79-pageproposal sets out a comprehensive package for putting the derailed economy back on track. The commissioners stress the need for well-de ned and legally secure transferrable rights to land, monetary reform, control of the state bud-get, and reduction of unemployment by easing barriers to entry to the labormarket. Other key areas for reform include reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers (now among the worlds highest), more ef cient and accountablecustoms procedures, and cracking down on corruption.

The authors of these serious policy recommendations are committed alliesand many are long-time bene ciaries of Atlas programs. The IMANI Centerfor Policy & Education in Ghana is a two-time winner of the TempletonFreedom Award. The Center also received a Fisher Venture Grant in 2008,and a grant to promote and distribute Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged in 2007.IMANI and the Atlas Global Initiative are creators of AfricanLiberty.org , thecontinents main online platform for writers who believe in peace, freedom,and prosperity. The site hosts content in English and Swahili, as wellas access to material in French, Portuguese, and Arabic. Among the othercommissioners of The Papers, Rejoice Ngwenya of the Coalition forMarket & Liberal Solutions in Zimbabwe has been deeply involved in the Atlas network and an in uential voice for human liberty in Africa. The Law Review Project and the Free Market Foundation , both of South Africa,have won Templeton Freedom Award rst prizes for the Social Entrepreneur -ship and Solutions to Poverty categories, respectively. The Atlas Global Initia -

tive works extensively with The Papers commissioners to disseminate theideas of classical liberalism and limited government to policymakers, students,and the general public throughout Africa.

The Papershave received signi cant ink and airtime in Africa and worldwide,appearing in the Harare Tribune, Modern Ghana, Guardian Newspapers,CNBC Africa, Korea Times, Daily Times (Malawi), Financial24 (South Af -rica), World News, BusinessDaily (Kenya), The Pioneer(India), and others.They have also given intellectual ammunition to a campaign to boycott NestlCompany over their association with First Lady Grace Mugabes milk farm.The Zimbabwe Papersexplain that freedom is a whole package, not merely aneconomic policy. They take an important step in making that messageresonate with African leaders.

The Atlas Think Tank MBA (TTMBA) is a two-week program thhelps think tank leaders develop their strategic plans while gett

a crash course in all aspects of running a t hink tank includingprogram planning and evaluation, fundraising, marketing, orgazational structure, and nancial management.

The Think Tank MBA program is not simply a seminar. Atlas senior fellow Rainer Heufers leads participants through interactive exercises and discus-sions, and then coaches them one-on-one as they develop business plans toprove their understanding of the concepts being taught. Participants learnfrom experts from the think tank network, such as fundraising and marketingurus Bob Russell and Ann Fitzgerald, president of the Foundation forEconomic Education , Lawrence Reed, Acton Institute executivetor, Kris Mauren, and new media specialist from the State Policy NetwNicole Williams.

TRAINING FUTURE LEADERSimbabwe has turned fromricas breadbasket intoasket case in less than aneration and we, asricans, must recognize that reason for this is thevernments failed policies,

mba Nolutshungu, Free Market Foundation,h Africa

picture, left to right: Franklin Cudjoe (IMANI er for Policy & Education, Ghana) and Ma-adou Sinte (Le Centre des Affaires Humaines,ina Faso), two commissioners of theThe Zim-e Papers , with 2009 Think Tank MBA partici-Adedayo Thomas (AfricanLiberty.org).

om picture: Zimbabwean Prime Minister Mor-Tsvangirai took some time during his 2009tour to read The Zimbabwe Papers , free mar-olicy reform recommendations commissioned ne African think tanks in the Atlas network.

Ezequiel Vzquez Ger (Instituto Acton, Argentina), Vanesa Colmegna (Fundacin

Iberoamrica Europa, Spain), EleonoraCoronel (Poder Judicial de la Nacin, Argentina), Eduardo Cader-Pena (Asociocin Democracia y Desarrollo, El Salvador).


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Free EnterpriseTraining CentersIn 2009, Atlas funded the launch of fourFree Enterprise Training Centers (FETC)around the world as part of a new cost-effective strategy for identifying and trainingnew intellectual entrepreneurs.

By leveraging the talents of some of the most effective established think tanks in the Atlas network, Atlas can reach a larger audience sharpen-ing their understanding of free-market ideas and how think tanks canhelp advance liberty over the long-term. One of the think tanks workinglike a satellite Atlas via a FETC is the Lithuanian Free Market In-stitute (LFMI), which has a 19-year track record of effectively promot-ing sound public policies. Atlass grant t o establish a center at LFMI hasresulted in its new Eu ropean Academy for Intellectual Entrepreneurs,discovering talented young people via an essay contest, scouting trips,internships and network resources. The most promising candidatesreceive further coaching, and practical training in an environment thatfosters intellectual advancement with the goal of catalyzing the nextgeneration of European free market think tank leaders. Similar effortshave been launched at the Free Enterprise Training Centers funded by Atlas at the F. A. Hayek Foundation (Slovakia), Libertad y Desar-rollo (Chile), and the Association of Liberal Thinking (Turkey).

rd Durana of the Institute for Economic and Social Studies (Slovakia) and COO Brad Lips discuss business plans.

Greg Sindelar of the Texas Public Policy Foundation drafts notes onmarketing strategy at the 2009 Think Tank MBA.

Elena Leontjeva, president of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute

Left to right: Aman Mahrzai (Council on Afghan Relations, USA), Adedayo Thomas (AfricanLiberty.org), Atlass Yiqiao Xu, Eduardo Cader (Asociacin Democracia y Desarrollo, El Salvador), and Tho -bias Makoba (E-Fulusi Africa, Tanzania).

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Think Tank MBAClass of 2009

Michal Baran , Poland

Jean Baugh , New Mexico

Kof Bentil , Ghana

Steven Bowen , Maine

Eduardo Cader , El Salvad

Vanesa Colmegna , Spain

Eleonora Coronel , Argen

George Chkikvade ,Republic of Georgia

Tuur Demeester, Belgium

Richard Durana , Slovaki

Federico Fernndez , Ar

Nicholas Gafuik , Canada

Ezequiel Vzquez Ger , A

Bugra Kalkan , Turkey

Aman Mahrzai , Californi

Thobias Makoba , Tanzan

Shaka Mitchell , Tennesse

Mirsulzhan Namazaliev Kyrgyzstan

Fbio Ostermann , Brazil

Armando Regil, Mexico

Samyukta Rupakheti , N

Ivan Sadouski , Belarus

Battsetseg Shagdar, Mo

Greg Sindelar , Texas

Jamie Story , Hawaii

Adedayo Thomas , Nigeri

Carlos Omar Vargas , Ec

S eparate group projects require TTMBA participants to work as ateam and actually develop, implement, and evaluate campaignsin only a few days. The project that earned top rankings this yearcreated a website, viral video and social networking campaign toight the freedom of speech issues at the heart of a recent controversy inh the Obama administration encouraged citizens to report to the Whitee any shy commentary on health reform proposals.

e were also visits to DC-area think tanks such as t he Institute for Jus-and the Cato Institute , as well as special nighttime dinners and excur-designed to help create strong bonds among a group of participants that

ght diverse backgrounds (21 countries were represented by the 28 partici-) but similar aspirations to the p rogram.

ough the real success of this program will only be discovered over time e see whether the participants can translate their learning into effectiveotion of liberty back home Atlas was grati ed to get extremely positive

back about the value imparted during these two weeks together.

In youngorganizationswe have plentyof passion but are in great

need of the tools for buildingan effective and lastingorganization committed to individual liberty. Atlas

challenging TTMBA program gave me practical insights from leaders inthe free market movement that will surely make mebetter prepared for the great task ahead. Shaka Mitchell, Think Tank MBA Graduate


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The Centre for Civil Society in India won a Templeton Freedom Award for its School Choice Campaign which promoteschoice in education using street theater performances.

Pakistani women participating in a program offered by Templeton Freedom Award winner, Samasource (USA),that enables people in developing countries to nd work opportunities via the internet.

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F or ver two decades The Sir Antony Fisher InternationalMemorial Awards have recognized outstanding publica-tions that enhance the public understanding of the free society from over twenty- ve countries, spanning every continent. This year, associalist dictators increasingly hamper prosperity in Latin America, theChilean think tank Libertad y Desarrollo responded with a semin book, Pobreza: Ideas Para Superarla (Ideas to Overcome Poveraimed at getting the Latin world back on track by outlining how Chile was able to successfully reform its economy.

Following severe sanctions imposed by the Nixon admini stration in1973 and the failed policies of Salvador Allende, the Chilean economy was crippled. Record in ation, zero foreign reserves, and a tankingGDP jeopardized the stability of the South American country.Enter: Hernan Bchi. As Undersecretary of the Economy (1979-80),

Undersecretary of Health (1980-83), Minister of Planning (1983-84),Superintendent of Banks and Financial Institutions (1984-85) andMinister of Finance (1985-1989), Bchi, along with economist MiguelKast (to whom the book is dedi cated), was critical in transformingChile into the dynamic market-oriented and free trade-based country that it is today by removing barriers to trade, privatizing statecompanies, and restraining a in ationary crisis through scal disciplineand tight monetary policy.

Bchi sought to institutionalize the ideas that had turned Chile aroundso they would last beyond the reformers who enacted them. In 1990,he co-founded Libertad y Desarrollo (LyD), a policy shop devoted to

promoting the virtues of individual liberty and limited government. In an effort to see the Chilean experiencereplicated by its neighbors, LyD published the Fisher Award-winning Pobreza, a collection of essays written by twelve star economists and social scientists, such as Libertad y Desarrollo executive director, CristinLarroulet and Osvaldo Larraaga of Universidad de Chile. Pobreza emphasizes the importance of growth,employment, education, and social programs, while underlining the key t o improve the social conditions of the poor is a commitment by the government to support individual efforts toward economic growth.

Other 2009 Fisher Award Winners: The Moral Superiority of the Free Econom by Michal Wojciechowski. Published by the Polish-American Foundation for

Economic Research and Education(PAFERE), Warsaw, Poland.

In Search of an Economic Miracle: Lesso for Belarus by Jaroslav Romachuk. Published by the Mises Scientifc Research CenterMinsk, Belarus.

Future Trends Magazine. Published by Institucon Futuro , Navarra, Spain.

REWARDING EXCELLENCE

P art of the critical catalyst role that Atlas plays is executed by extensive awards programs thatrecognize and reward top-notch scholarship or advocacy. Each year, Atlas taps world-renownedexperts from the media, academy, NGOs, and the private sector to serve as judges and identify the most effective think tanks promoting free markets, rule of law, and individual liberty. Atlassnternational awards are crucial for discovering new talent and staying informed of the great work of existing allies.

Left to right: Jan Malek (PAFERE, Poland), Denise Couyoumdjian(LyD, Chile), Ana Yerro (Institucin Futuro, Spain), and Jaroslav Romachuk (Mises Scienti c Research Center, Belarus).


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Richard Durana of the Institute of Econom-ic and Social Studies (Slovakia) interviewed by Tomasz Cukiernik of the GlobalizationInstitute (Poland) in the Polish weekly, Czas (Times), about the record economic growth(14.1%) in Slovakia. Durana attributes theprosperity to economic reform under MikulDzurinda, including a liberalized labor codeand a 19% at income, corporate, and valueadded tax. This reform lead Steve Forbes toname Slovakia an investors paradise.

2009 Templeton Freedom Award Winners

Participants in the Egyptian Union for Liberal Youth attend weekly workshops on the meaning of liberalism and the principles of minimal state, free trade, and rule of law.


A s the largest international prize programrewarding free-market organizations, theTempleton Freedom Awards (TFAnamed for the late investor and philanthropist, Sir JohTempleton. The program was established in 2003 by Atlas with funding from the Templeton Foundation tohelp those who are making signi cant contributionsto enhancing opportunity and prosperity. Each winnerreceives $10,000.

Working in a very dif cult environment for the ideasof liberty, the Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth(EULY) is one of the youngest groups to win a TFA.In 2009, the Union undertook an ambitious andimpressive range of projects to offer young Arabs analternative to the repressive and violent dogma thatattracts adolescents in the region. Ventures include anessay competition on the question Why am I aliberal?, monthly Road to LibertyWorkshops cothe principles of classical liberalism, a wiki providingfree-market literature, and regular screenings of histopolitical lms. The essay contest has been publicizedthe countrys ve most popular newspapers, the largesuniversities, a popular youth radio station, and on twmajor political party websites. EULY was set up in 2 with the help of Atlass Middle East Initiative grant.

Free Market Solutions to Poverty New Economic School (Republic of Georgia) Free Market Foundation (South Africa)

Social Entrepreneurship Samasource (USA) Fundacin Paraguaya (Paraguay)

Ethics & Values Conservative Institute (Slovakia) Globalization Institute (Poland)

Student Outreach Foundation for Individual Rights

in Education (USA) Institute Invertir (Peru)

Initiative in Public Relations Centre for Civil Society (India) Institute for Information on the

Crimes of Communism (Sweden)

Innovative Media Award Sam Adams Alliance (USA) Free to Choose Network (USA)

Award for Special Achievement by a

University Based Center Center for Ethics and Ent repreneurship atRockford College (USA)

Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovationat Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile)

Award for Special Achievement by aYoung Institute Instituto Millenium (Brazil) Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth (Egypt)

B efore establishing the Institute of Economicand Social Studies (INESS), Slovakian Ph.D biochemist Richard Durana spent his time prepar-ing sub-cellular vaccines against fungal diseases. When he wasnt in the lab, Durana was devoted to t he work of Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School of Economics. By 2006,the dour state of the Slovakian economy inspired Duranato leave the hard sciences for the dismal science and start anew free-market think tank.

In only three years, INESS has launched an extremely popu -lar website educating the public on The Price of the Stateand publishes a highly-demanded manual of educational

tools for high school and university instructors to teach public nance. INESS has quickly become the mostcited economic think tank in the country and has logged over 1400 media appearances. For its achievements, Atlas recognized INESS with a Fisher Venture Grant in 2009.

The Dorian & Antony Fisher Venture Grants (FVG) program awards grants of up to $100,000 topromising, young, classical liberal think tanks across the globe. Atlas created the FVG program to providegrantees with funding over a period of three years, during which time Atlas will be in frequent contact to helpdevelop plans and to monitor performance. The 2009 class of Fisher Venture Grantees includes the Centrefor Political Studies (Denmark), Instituto Juan de Mariana (Spain), Samriddhi: The Prosperity Foundation (Nepal), and the Show-Me Institute (Missouri, USA).


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One of her bene ciaries is LjubSlovenian professor of economco-founder of the Centre for Rinto Post-Communist Econom(CRCE) in London. Sirc was tin Atlass network to conduct conferences with scholars frommer communist countries to eresearch, and facilitate their trto market economics.

Vidas generosity also enablesSturm, former Slovenian MinJustice, professor of law, and of the Carantania Institute, to bene ts of the free economy todents and teachers who were rsocialistic ideology. Sturm coorganize seminars for Sloveniers using DVD material provithe Free to Choose Networks FreeToChoose.org.

Today, Vidas contributions alto sponsor the annual Liberty for students from Eastern andEurope. In September, camperGermany, Ukraine, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, MonRomania, Bulgaria, the UnitedLithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poand Slovakia travelled to Lakein Slovenia for week-long lectadvanced study on the philosofoundations of freedom and liEuropean transition countriesnowned scholars leading the dsions included: Tanja Stumbe Andrei Illarionov of the Cato Steve Pejovich (Texas A&M Usity, USA), Aleksandar Novakthe Serbian NGO Katalaksija,Bri (University of Ljubljannia) and Sirc from CRCE.

The Ribnikars generous legac Atlas lives on today, helping Cand Eastern Europeans in the against socialist advances. Fo we are grateful both to the Rand the Prahs.

Alejandro Chafuen is CEO President of the Atlas Eco Research Foundation.For a more detailed version of the Riand Prah stories, please see wwwwork.org/NetworkNews

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As witnesses to the brutality of au-thoritarian rule in their home coun-try of Yugoslavia, this wonderfulcouple served as shining examples of freedom ghters throughout their life -times. Thanks to their generosity, thenext generation of free-market cham-pions ourishes in Slovenia.

The Ribnikars and Paherniks camefrom two very productive and entre-preneurial families in Yugoslavia. They owned a variety of enterprises includ-ing newspapers, forestland, cementfactories and vineyards. Their proper-ties were the envy of socialists of allstripes. In the 1940s, the property of both families was expropriated, rst by Hitlers National Socialists in 1941 andagain in 1945 by Josip Titos Commu -

nist Party of Yugoslavia. Both times,the Ribnikars were victimized andtargeted because of their af nity for western capitalism.

Bojan and Vida married just beforethe war but rarely saw each otheras Bojan hid from the Gestapo andCommunist forces. In 1944, they successfully ed to Italy, bothleaving their families in hiding.

In Italy Bojan completed a doctor -ate in Padua while Vida studied inFlorence until they reunited in Rometo work for the Western Allies pressof ce. Sadly, their families were notas fortunate both Bojan and Vidalost brothers to the war.


Bojan and Vida eventually settled inthe Bay Area of California (by way of my home country, Argentina) where a wonderful set of relationships developed which eventually connectedthem to Atlas.

As fate would have it, the Ri bnikarsneighbor was another Slovenian mi -gr named Borut Prah, who Bojan and Vida had met in pre-war Slovenia.Borut introduced them to his goodfriend, Antony Fisher, Atlass founder. At the time, Fisher had set up shop inSan Francisco, only a block from IBM, where Borut served as an executive.The proximity of of ces and ideolo -gies lead to the Ribnikars, Fishers,and Prahs becoming close friends andprofessional allies.

In time, both the Ribnikars and thePrahs became generous supporters to Atlas.

During the 1980s, Borut encouraged Atlas to become an early pioneer inthe global system of interconnectedcomputer networks what we know now as the world wide web. He believed that Atlass internationalnetworking could be ef ciently accom -

plished using software that IBM usedto connect its employees all over the world. Thanks to Borut, Atlas becamethe rst free-market group to have acomputer billboard a rudimentary precursor to internet and e-mail!

Borut, and his wife Nadine, werecommitted to supporting Atlassefforts to reverse years of socialistindoctrination in Slovenia and East -ern Europe. They encouraged Vidato help Atlas expand its work in theregion. With her rst donation, Atlassponsored young Slovenians to attendfree-market training programs. Vidascontinued support allowed Atlas tocollaborate on programs, conferences,and publications with like-mindedfree-market partners such as the Law and Economics Center at GeorgeMason University.

Vida Ribnikar especially valued efforts

aimed at training the younger genera-tions. She wanted them exposed to Americas best free enterprise tradi-tions and institutions. Her generosity enabled Atlas to sponsor educationprograms, seminars, and translations,provide training in free market eco-nomics, connect Eastern Europeans with allies in the Atlas network, andfund Slovenian projects and organiza -tions working to expose the damagecaused by collectivism.

ding the nexteration ofvenianedom Fighters

Alejandro Chafuen

Left to right: Atlass Alex Chafuen,Vida Ribnikar, and Borut Prah

Students enjoy the camaraderie of the 2009 Liberty Seminars in Lake Bohinj, Slovenia,made possible by the Vida Ribnikar legacy.

I m grateful that totalitarianshave failed at perfecting the artof coercion and tyranny. Despitethe walls they build, and thens they use to con ne, some of victims nonetheless escape and

he stories. Such is the refreshingof Bojan Ribnikar and Vida Rib -r nee Pahernik.

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Much of the value cre-ated by Atlas hap-pens over email, thetelephone, personals and private meetings. Atlasts provide an inspiring, invigo-g opportunity to glimpse theer of the freedom movement that

is so privileged to nurture.

Liberty Forum is Atlass pre-e networking event. In 2009,orum was held in Los Angeles

and attracted nearly 300 participantsfrom more than 40 countries, forthe purpose of sharing ideas, learn-ing strategies, and drinking in therare camaraderie of peers who alsodedicate their lives to the spread of liberty. Policy sessions, featuring ex -perts from the think tank community,focused on the topics of Free Trade,Sound Money, Regulatory Reform,and Entrepreneurship. Training workshops taught best practices inthe Use of New Media, Fundraising,

and Financial Management duringDif cult Times.

In August, Atlas provided anotherexciting networking opportunity viaits special, retreat-like Atlas Experi -ence event in Niagara-on-the-Lake,Canada. In an intimate setting,friends of liberty recharged their batteries, developed new friendships,and shared ideas for more effectively promoting free-market reforms.

Atlass nal large event in 2009 takesplace in November in WashingtonDC and builds around the FreedomDinner, Atlass annual celebrationof the anniversary of the fall of theBerlin Wall. This years dinner fea-tures master of ceremonies WalterE. Williams, distinguished profes-sor of economics at George MasonUniversity and the keynote address by Alan Charles Kors one of the worlds leading authorities on theEnlightenment, steadfast defender

of free speech and co-founder of theFoundation for Individual Rightsin Education (FIRE). The dinner iscomplemented by a two-day programthat includes a conference featur-ing winners of the 2009 TempletonFreedom Awards as well as many freedom- ghters who were pres -ent when the Berlin Wall was torndown. Following the Freedom Dinnerand conference, Atlas will hold aninvitation-only training workshop fornew think tank leaders to learn from

veterans of the Atlas Think Taand Templeton Freedom Awar

For many international partneing in hostile areas, Atlas evena glimpse of the large family ominded individuals who are wfor the same cause and re-enertheir efforts.

5 Atlas trustee LindaWhetstone (right) offers

some wisdom to new thinktank leaders Armando and Claudia Regil (Instituto de Pensamiento Estratgico gora A.C., Mexico)

6 Atlas board memberChuck Albers (right) greetsnew supporter John Laingat the Liberty Forum.

7 Liberty Forum Keynote Speakerand former President of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga.

8 Left to right: Atlas board member Andrea Rich, keynote speaker Hon. Maurice McTigue (Mercatus Center,USA), and Atlas president Alex Chafuen at The Atlas Experience in Niagara, Canada.

9 Durra Elmaki, a student at Ameri -can University, attends a fundraisingworkshop at Atlass Liberty Forumin Los Angeles. Elmaki plans to start a think tank in the Sudan called the Nile Institute for Economic Studies.

1Bienvenido Nonoy Oplas Jr. (Minimal Government Thinkers, Philippines) and Xu Zhao (Unirule Instituteof Economics, China) chat between sessions of a four-hour fundraising workshop for international think tankleaders at the Atlas Liberty Forum in Los Angeles. Nonoyand Xu are active networkersof classical liberals in Asia,using blogs, translations,and innovative web media toreach the masses.

2 Left to right: Atlas chair-man Dan Grossman, Senior Fellow and Think Tank MBA facilitator Rainer Heufers,board member Curtin Winsorand Foundation for Economic Education chairman, WayneOlson at The Atlas Experience.

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Connecting the Freedom movement


3 Emmanuel Martin(bottom left), director of Atlass French language platform UnMondeLibre.org, enjoys food and drink with Europeanthink tank leaders at the Atlas co-sponsored European Resource Bankin Marseille, France in August.

4 Jarolsav Romanchuk(Scienti c Research MisesCenter, Belarus) intensely focused at an Atlasworkshop at the Liberty Forum.

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Reinventing Civil Society by Dav(top) and Reviving the Invisible H

Deepak Lal (bottom) in Russia


I n January 2009, Atlas launched a new Global Initiative for Free Trade,Peace, and Prosperity by incorporating into its operationsinternational programs developed at the Cato Institute and led by TomG. Palmer, now Atlas vice president for international programs.The staff of the initiative i ncludes native speakers of more than a dozen lan-guages, who work to expand the reach of the ideas of li berty -- new capabili-ties that multiply the opportunities for Atlas to identify and assist intellectualentrepreneurs who were otherwise inaccessible. New think tanks in a num - ber of countries have been established and joined t he Atlas family as a result.

For each language, Atlas maintains an active web-based platform, which isused as a brand for books, syndication of articles to the press, videos,Freedom Schools for students, and policy conferences for policy makers,entrepreneurs, and journalists.

What follows is a mere peek into the wide range of activities that At las hasinitiated in three vitally important parts of the world: Eurasia, Asia, and theMiddle East. (The Atlas Global Initiativ e is also active in Europe, Africa, andSouth America; visit AtlasNetwork.org/globalinitiative for more details.) The countries of the former Soviet Union are crit ical for the future of liberty. InLiberty.ru, Atlass Russian brand, has been on the job. In- Liberty.ru editor Anna Krasinskaya, in addition to editing the website,

publishing several books, and working with the Russian-language media,organized a summer school in Odessa, Ukraine for students mainly from Rus -sia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Southern Caucasus. Krasinskya also coordinateda fall Free-Market School in Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan (in conjunction wit h thenewly formed Central Asian Free Market Institute , CAFMI), for studentsfrom the ve Central Asian former Soviet Republics. Distinguished scholarsProfessor George Selgin and Professor Deepak Lal held seminars in Kyiv,

Moscow, and St. Petersburg that were attended by former prime mini sters andnance ministers, leading journalists, and hundreds of students. Lal promotedthe Russian edition of his book Reviving the Invisible Hand , which was trans-lated and published by InLiberty.ru.

Atlas expanded its reach into Ukraine when Palmer and colleague PeterKaznacheev, InLiberty.rus rst editor, visited Kyiv and brought two new groups into the Atlas network, the Ukrainian Foundation for Support of Reform and the Property and Freedom Institute , and into Central Asia when Palmer visited Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and helped to es -tablish CAFMI, which is now growing and working throughout the region, andis already assisting a new Atlas partner being established in Afghanistan.

Atlass Anna Krasinkaya, editor osian platform InLiberty.ru , discusslenge of promoting individual libe

Eurasia:Russia and the Countries

of the former USSR

InLiberty.ru blogger and Academy of National Economy (Russia) Fellow Vadim Novikov discussingthe tale of a slave, a case study from Robert Nozicks Anarchy, State, and Utopia with students at aseminar in Odessa, Ukraine.

Students at a conference on Property and Freedom in Ukraine.


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The Middle East has long been known for volatility and the scarcity of the ideas and policies of liberty. That is chan

ing. Atlas maintains web-platforms in four Middle Eastern languages: Arabic ( Minbaralhurriyya.org ), (Cheragheazadi.org), Kurdish ( Chiraiazadi.org), and Azerbaijani ( Azadliqciragi.org). Each has publishfor local distribution, as well as articles to the media. Some of the books have already gone into multi ple printings and are being used in university courses. Cheragheazadi.orgs materials in Persian are distributed beyond Iran and are being printin Afghanistan for that countrys large Persian speaking population by the Afghanistan Economic and Legal StudiesOrganization , which was founded after Palmers visit in 2009.

The most active of the three is Minbaralhurriyya.org , which publishes articles virtually every day in the Arab press, Morocco to Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and held two summer schools in 2009, in Mahdiyya, Morocco and Harissa, Lebanon.In addition, Minbaralhurriyya.org organized the Dialogue of Civilizations in conjunction with the Alexandria LibraEgypt, which focused on peaceful coexistence among the worlds cultures, and the 2009 Egypt Audit, a major conferencein Cairo that was organized in conjunction with the think tank of the Egyptian cabinet and the Fraser Instituteda. Fraser scholars worked with Atlass Nouh El Harmouzi, editor of Minbaralhurriyya.org , to provide a systemaof the policies of the Egyptian government and to make concrete recommendations for removing barriers to enterprise,trade, and economic improvement. The recommendations were presented, discussed, debated in Cairo by ve Egyptian working groups, which then prepared a report to the government with their proposals.

The ideas of freedom are a necessary response to the ideas of coercion, of socialism, nationalism, extremism, and intoler-ance. The Atlas Global Initiative offers the alternative of peace, enterprise, freedom, and mutual bene t through trade inareas that are sometimes hostile to or unfamiliar with the ideas of liberty.

The Atlas Global Initiative tak proactive approach to spreading li

languages that otherwise have limto classical liberal ideas. By publisworks of thinkers like Adam Smit Frdric Bastiat in Chinese, Portu Russian, Hindi and more than a dlanguages, the gospels of freedoming previously unfamiliar territory

From left to right: Capitalism and Frby Milton Friedman (Persian), Ada A Primer by Eamonn Butler (AzerLibertarianism - A Primer by David(Kurdish), and Not A Zero Sum Gam Manuel F. Ayau (Arabic).

Discussion of the role of economic freedom at the Akademi Merdeka Freedom Academy in Penang, Malaysia.


Atlas maintains a number of platforms in Asia, in Chinese ( Guominliyi.

org), Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia ( AkademiMerdeka.org), Vietnamese( DoiMoi.org ), and Hindi ( Azadi.me), and works closely with partnerorganizations throughout the region. The Atlas Global Initiative brought JudeBlanchette on board to manage institute relations in Asia. Blanchette is based inBeijing and travels to the region t o assist Asian think tanks.

Guominliyi.orghas cooperated with Chinese partners to introduce a series of books in Chinese (including, recently, David Boazs Libertarianism: A Primer )and organized a week-long summer school in Huangzhou and lecture tou rs toChinese law schools to promote improvements to t he Chinese legal system andto build a culture of law in the country. Professor Andrew Morriss of the Uni - versity of Illinois College of Law has worked closely with Guominliyi.organd anumber of Chinese legal scholars on the project.

Blanchette joined Palmer in India to help the team working on Azadi.me,theHindi project that was of cially launched in August by leading Indian journal -ists Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound , Shrawan Garg, editor of Dainik Bhaskar (Indias largest circulation Hindi newspaper), and Ved Pratap Vaidik,political scientist and former editor of Navbharat Times and PTI Bhasha.

Those visits also sparked the China-India Citizens Initi ative, which seeks topromote free trade and peace between the two countries. The Central AsianFree Market Institute is also encouraging elimination of barriers to trade andtravel throughout Eurasia and Asia.

Asia MiddleEAst

Students at the Minbaralhurriyya.org (Arabic) conference in Harissa, Lebanon.

an Garg, Gurcharan Das, and Ved Pratapk collectively launch the Hindi website,me , with the push of a button.

ulzhan Namazaliev and Seyitbek Usmanove Central Asian Free Market Institute dur-he Fall Free Market School in Issyk Kul,yzstan.


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edom To Tradethe troubled world economy go from bad to worse? The answer to this question may hinge on whether free-market

ocates can prevail over those who would undermine global t rade with protectionist measures.

March, Atlas launched a campaign, resulting in a petit ion signed by over 1,000 economists and think tank leaders,ng on governments of all nations to resist the temptation of raising barriers to trade. Working in cooperation with

London-based International Policy Network , the Freedom To Trade campaign has taken off in many parts of

world, being replicated in places like India, Central Asia, China, and Latin America. Atlas produced original videosaining the relationship between trade, peace, and prosperity that have been translated int o eleven languages. Inember, it organized dozens of students from Latin America, China, the U.S., and Canada, to travel to the G-20mit in Pittsburgh to rally support for free trade and protest short-sighted economic nationalism.

Sound MoneyCan we escape from the current nancial crisis by dropping dollars from a helicopter? To better u nder-stand the nature of the current crisis, At las launcheda new Sound Money Project in 2009, which aimsto revitalize think tank interest in an urgent topicthat has been neglected for too long. An enlightenedcitizenship, aware of the problems involved with thestate manipulation of money and credit, is the mostsecure barrier against the destruction of our assets.

The Project mobilizes organizations in the Atlasnetwork and canvasses its ranks to discover andnurture the next generation of sound money experts.The Project has featured strategy sessions anddiscussions on the nancial crisis and the role of money at the Liberty Forum, Atlass InternationalThursday, and is planning an event to be held in early 2010 in Philadelphia. Atlas also launched a SoundMoney Essay Contest with the goals of raising aware -ness of sound money as a key eld of concentration and of identifying students with an interest in the eld. In October,

the Project created a Senior Fellowship for graduate students who can be articulate communicators for sound money policies in public forums, with economist Lawrence H. White of George Mason University as mentor.

Teach Freedom InitiativeSeveral of Atlass peer organizations are ghting back againthe problem of ideological bias and political correctness ocollege campuses. Much of the attention has been on therestoration of Western Civ programs that were undermin by the shift to culture studies that barely disguised a lefagenda. Atlass Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) complementhis work by helping intellectual entrepreneurs withinuniversities who also defend free enterprise. In 2009, the Tsupported the launch and growth of academic programs alothese lines at ve different U.S. universities, and sponsoredtwo conferences.

The goal of the conferences are to foster an exchange of idamong those who can help reform higher education, by developing new programs and academic centers that celebfree-market ideas.

Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders An anonymous donor helped develop a forward-looking project at Atlas that encourages young scholars to apply theperspective of Austrian methodological individualism, which has greatly increased our understanding of free marketto areas outside the realm of tradit ional economic study.

Atlass Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders (FSSO) sponsored a conference on Manifestations of SpontaneousOrders in Politics and Society, attracting scientists from several different elds (geography, economics, anthropology,political science) to discuss the ways different scholarly disciplines approach the question of orders, both spontaneousand consciously created. In September, the Fund presented its fourth Lifetime Achievement Award to Peter Berger, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology, and Theology at Boston University. FSSO awarded recent Nobel laureate ElinorOstrom and husband Vince with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 for their work pioneering the study of com-munal property rights. The Ostroms showed how groups of people communities can protect and preserve property rights without the heavy hand of government.


SPECIAL ATLAS

INITIATIVES Cato Senior Fellow Gerald P. ODriscoll speaking on The Financial Crisis an Attack on Sound Money at the Liberty Forum in April. ODriscoll, along wit Lawrence H. White (George Mason University), Deepak Lal (University of California-Los Angeles), Peter J. Boettke (George Mason Universit participated in the Atlas Sound Money Projects inaugural strategy the NYC Mont Pelerin Society meeting in March.

ents protesting protectionism at the G-20mit in Pittsburgh in September.

In 2009, TFI hosted three conferences addressing the two key issuesin promoting market-based solutions for society: how to teach sound economics and how academic centers could serve as conduits forclassical liberalism. Jeff Sandefer (pictured) of the Acton School of Business delivered the keynote address at the Guatemala event on Improving Students Appreciation of Free-Market ThinkingThrough the Academy.


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The Atlas MissionTo discover, develop, and support intellectual entrepreneurs worldwide whocan advance the Atlas vision of a society of free and responsible individuals.

Senior Staff Alejandro A. Chafuen, President & Chief Executive Of cer

Jo Kwong , Vice President for Institute RelationsLeonard P. Liggio , Executive Vice President for AcademicsBrad Lips , Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Of cer

Tom G. Palmer, Vice President for International Programs & General Director, Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity

Atlas Revenue and Expenses

2008 2007

Contributions $6,400,965 $6,800,576

Other Income $280,156 $131,379

TOTAL INCOME $6,681,121 $6,931,955

Program Services $5,401,256 $4,019,006

Management $379,132 $304,356

Fundraising $458,694 $408,917

TOTAL EXPENSES $6,239,082 $4,732,279 Net Assets (End of Year) $5,609,596 $5,168,557

Board Members

Chuck AlbersJohn BlundellTimothy BrowneDaniel Grossman, Chairman Abby MoffatGeorge Pearson

Andrea RichRen Scull William SumnerLinda WhetstoneHon. Curtin Winsor

Atlas StaffEva Andraskova , Assistant, Institute Relations

William Arnold , Associate, Donor RelationsCindy Cerquitella , Program Manager,Web Media & Institute Relations, EuropeDiogo Costa , Editor, OrdemLivre.org (Portuguese), Atlas Global InitiativeKristina Crane , Operations Manager, Atlas Global InitiativePeshwaz Faizulla , Editor, Chiraiazadi.org(Kurdish) & Managing Editor, Cheragheazadi.org(Persian), Atlas Global Initiative

Whitney Garrison , Associate, External Relations Allegra Herburt-Hewell , Associate, Events & Institute Relations, Latin AmericaJoseph Humire , Program Manager,Think Tanks for a Secure Free Society

Diqing Jiang , Editoralist, Guominliyi.org(Chinese), Atlas Global Initiative

Anna Krasinskaya , Editor, InLiberty.ru (Russian), Atlas Global Initiative Austin Petersen , Program Manager, New Media, Atlas Global InitiativeRomulo Lopez , Manager, Administration and ProgramsCassy Loseke , Manager, Marketing Support, Atlas Global InitiativeLuke Seidl, Outreach Associate & Editor, PublicationsElle Spiecher , Assistant, Institute RelationsPriscilla Tacujan, Program Manager, Teach Freedom Initiative Yiqiao Xu, Director, Programs

Atlas Contractors (WORKING FOR LIBERTY WORLDWIDE)Khalil Ahmad , Editor, Hum-Azad.org (Urdu), Atlas Global InitiativeJude Blanchette , Institute Relations, AsiaBaishali Bomjan , Co-editor, Azadi.me (Hindi), Atlas Global Initiative Alan Chen , Co-editor, Guominliyi.org (Chinese), Atlas Global InitiativeFranklin Cudjoe , Editor, AfricanLiberty.org(English and Swahili), Atlas Global InitiativeStephanie Giovanetti , Manager, EventsNouh El-Harmouzi , Editor, Minbaralhurriyya.org (Arabic), Atlas Global Initiative

Mohammad Jahan-Parvar , Editor,Cheragheazadi.org (Persian), Atlas Global InitiativeZiyang Li , Co-editor, Gouminliyi.org (Chinese), Atlas Global InitiativeEmmanuel Martin , Editor, UnMondeLibre.org(French), Atlas Global Initiative

Cong Minh Nguyen , Editor, DoiMoi.org(Vietnamese), Atlas Global InitiativeParth Shah , Co-editor, Azadi.me (Hindi), AtlasGlobal InitiativeTural Veliyev , Editor, Azadliqciragi.org(Azerbaijani), Atlas Global Initiative

Wan Saiful Wan Jan , Editor, WauBebas.org(Maylay), Atlas Global Initiative

Senior Fellows William DennisRainer HeufersGabriel Sanchez-Zinny Deroy Murdock

Atlas Revenue and Expense Trends


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