This annual Prize will provide a $10,000 reward
to a single winner that demonstrates excellence
in reaching a broad audience or having a substantial
impact on opinion-makers, so that concepts relating
to freedom become better understood. For example,
good candidates for the Utley Prize could be an
institute that documents how its radio program reaches
100,000 listeners each weekday with discussions
of economic liberty, or an institute that educates
50 college students each year through a certificate
program, and has seen a dozen students from past
years graduate into high government positions.
Who Can Apply:
Atlas specifically solicits applications from organizations
in countries where the ideas of liberty are not
clearly understood or applied (i.e., countries which
the various economic freedom indices term as "unfree").
Preference is given to organizations that are headquartered
in such countries. However, organizations that are
based in freer parts of the world, but developing
and contributing to the creation of organizations
in the target countries (i.e. serving as a catalyst),
are also eligible to apply.
How to Apply: You can submit your application online
at www.atlasusa.org, which consists of a simple
(one page) nomination essay that explains why the
applying institute merits recognition for excellence
in advance liberty in a difficult part of the world.
Please note that the Prize will not be given to
new or proposed projects that do not have an existing
track record. Please submit an application about
a specific project that has been completed, or a
demonstrated body of ongoing work.
Supporting documentation which illustrates the impact
of the project, as well as the submission of local
references, is an important part of the application
process. Examples include media coverage, reviews
of the project, testimonies from people who have
been directly impacted, etc.
Applications must be submitted in English. The required
supporting documentation, however, does not have
to be in English. We anticipate that some of the
strongest applications will concern programs conducted
in other languages. Applications must be received
by August 31, 2006.
Selection Criteria & Announcement Schedule:
The winning institute will be selected by a panel
of independent judges, based upon their demonstration
of excellent achievement in reaching and persuading
new audiences of the merits of the ideas of freedom
and on the impact of this process.
The winner will be announced at our annual Freedom
Dinner in November 2006. Please note that institutes
that have won one of Atlas's Templeton Freedom Prizes
are eligible for the Utley Prize, but cannot nominate
the same project for the Freda Utley Prize.
The Freda Utley Foundation decided to establish
this program at Atlas because of its experience,
capabilities, resources, and reputation.
“We see Atlas as an ideal partner in continuing
her legacy, because it has the infrastructure, experience,
and focus to use funds effectively to promote liberty,
especially in the world’s poorer nations.
Atlas’s core beliefs are very much in tune
with Freda Utley’s: namely, concern for human
poverty and misery, and the belief that peoples
of all nations have similar aspirations and can
learn the universal lessons of freedom and prosperity.
Freda Utley would have found the Atlas team very,
very much to her liking and affinity, not just in
its beliefs, but in its common sense and activism.”
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