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Looking for an internship where you can gain real-world experience while contributing to work with a global reach? Applications are open for Atlas Network’s Spring 2027 internships! Whether you’re interested in communications, fundraising, grantmaking, event planning, or nonprofit leadership, an internship with Atlas Network offers an opportunity to build practical skills, contribute to meaningful projects, and learn from professionals working with a worldwide network of think tanks. You’ll have the chance to gain hands-on experience, explore potential career paths, and participate in professional development opportunities while contributing to the work of an international nonprofit. Spring 2027 internship opportunities: * Development & Fundraising * Institute Relations & Grants * Training & Education * Marketing & Communications * Graphic Design * Events Internship details: * Late January through late April 2027 (tentative) * Up to 30 hours per week * Preference given to candidates who can regularly work from our Arlington, Virginia office * Applicants must already be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer visa sponsorship. * Apply by December 31, 2026 Ready to gain experience and make an impact? We’d love to hear from you. Explore available opportunities and apply: hubs.la/Q04DHB6b0

Who stands behind the people standing up for freedom? In 2022, Advocata Institute received the Templeton Freedom Award for its work advancing economic reform in Sri Lanka during a devastating economic crisis. Accepting that recognition, Dhananath Fernando offered encouragement to those feeling discouraged and thanked the supporters who helped “expand the fight.” That moment captures something worth experiencing firsthand: the connection between people advancing freedom and those who help them go further. In three days, Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner brings that community together in New York. You can sit beside leaders working to change their countries, hear what progress demands of them, and ask where your interests, experience, or support could make a difference. At Freedom Dinner, meet this year’s six Templeton Freedom Award finalists and witness the announcement of the winner. Behind their achievements are years of research, persuasion, and persistence, with consequences for people’s ability to work, build businesses, and shape their own futures. Come hear those stories from the people living them. Leave with a clearer understanding of what your commitment to freedom can help make possible. 📍 New York City | November 11–12 Visit hubs.ly/Q04BQH9t0 to learn more and register now. 👇

Applications are closing soon for our first two international training programs of 2027! Looking to grow as a leader, sharpen your communications skills, or bring fresh ideas back to your organization? Join us in Athens, Greece, this February ahead of Europe Liberty Forum for one of two hands-on training programs designed to help think tank professionals take their work to the next level. Leader Lab | February 22–24 Build the skills and confidence to lead more effectively, navigate organizational challenges, and turn ambitious ideas into action. MarCom Lab (Formerly Marcom 360) | February 23–24 Strengthen your marketing and communications strategies, tell more compelling stories, and help your organization's work reach the audiences that matter. Beyond the training sessions, you'll have the opportunity to exchange ideas, tackle shared challenges, and build lasting connections with fellow professionals working to advance freedom around the world. Invest in your growth and bring new skills, strategies, and connections back to your team. Both programs are highly competitive, so we encourage you to consider which opportunity best aligns with your current role, professional goals, and development needs. Applications are welcome from across our global network, but priority will be given to applicants from the region unless otherwise specified. Apply by Nov. 22! Learn more and apply: hubs.la/Q04DH52d0

250 years after the Declaration of Independence, what will it take to keep the American experiment in freedom alive for another 250? As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, its founding ideals continue to raise important questions about liberty, self-government, and the relationship between individual freedom and civic responsibility. What can freedom advocates around the world learn from America's achievements and failures? And what will renewing the classical liberal tradition require today? During Atlas Network's 2026 Liberty Forum, Lord Daniel Hannan, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, will moderate "America at 250: The Enduring Case for Freedom," featuring: Stephanie Slade, author of Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, and Larry Reed, author of Born of Ideas: How Principles, Faith, and Courage Formed America. Together, they'll examine the relationship between liberty, virtue, faith, pluralism, and constitutionally limited government, while considering the distance between America's founding ideals and its historical practice. The discussion will also explore contemporary challenges facing the classical liberal tradition and what its renewal will require from individuals, institutions, and civil society. Join us for a conversation about the lessons of America's first 250 years and the questions that will shape its future. 📅 Thursday, November 12 | 9:00 a.m. ET 📍 Metropolitan Ballroom East, 2nd Floor | Sheraton New York Times Square Learn more: hubs.la/Q04Dyv8G0

Arriving in New York ahead of Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner? Start your week with two stories about the determination to build, create, and protect a way of life. In Skyward, a father-daughter rocketry family prepares Team USA for the World Spacemodeling Championships while navigating restrictive regulations. In Remnants, a sixth-generation ranching family rebuilds after a devastating wildfire as government policies and cultural changes threaten its future. Join the Moving Picture Institute for a free screening of both documentaries on Tuesday, November 10, followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Matthew Middendorf, Matt Pirrall, and Michael Catenacci. 📍 Dolby 88, 1350 6th Avenue, New York City 🕠 November 10 | Doors open at 5:30 p.m. | Program begins at 6 p.m. Come meet the filmmakers and explore the human stories behind innovation, perseverance, and freedom. Reserve your free spot: hubs.la/Q04D4s-y0

What does progress for freedom look like to the people making it happen? 🤝During Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, get an inside look at the work behind greater opportunity, stronger institutions, and more open markets. Meet the practitioners pursuing those changes and hear what it takes to move from an idea to an impact. 🚢In Open Trade in a Protectionist Age, explore how organizations are using research, legal action, and public engagement to challenge trade restrictions and build support for open markets. See how advocates are responding to an issue affecting businesses and communities across borders. 🏆Hear directly from all six Templeton Freedom Award finalists about their work, from removing barriers to entrepreneurship in Brazil to challenging government tariff powers in the United States. Discover the strategies behind their projects before the winner is announced at Freedom Dinner. If you support the freedom movement, or are considering how to get involved, this is a chance to better understand the people, decisions, and local knowledge behind the causes you care about. Bring home a global perspective that can inform where you put your time, attention, and support. Join Atlas Network for Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, November 11–12, 2026, in New York City. Visit hubs.la/Q04BGnNz0 to learn more and register now. 👈

How do you turn a promising idea into policy? Reach people beyond your usual audience? Keep a team moving when progress is slow? You may be wsorking on different sides of the world but wrestling with the same question. During Liberty Forum, explore those questions with people bringing experience from across the worldwide freedom movement. 📢In Leadership That Multiplies, examine practical approaches to mentoring, coaching, and helping others take ownership. Consider how you can develop leadership within your own organization as teams navigate new technology and changing ways of working. 📹In the hands-on workshop From Policy to Post: Creating Short-Form Video That Connects, turn a recent paper or op-ed into a video concept, with guidance on messaging and filming with your phone. Bring your policy expertise and explore a new way to reach people beyond your usual audience. 🤝And you do not have to leave meeting the right people to chance. The facilitated Speed Networking session uses one-on-one and small-group conversations to help you make introductions early and keep those connections growing throughout Forum. Bring a challenge from your work, a question for your peers, and a perspective someone else could learn from. Join Atlas Network for Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, November 11–12, 2026, in New York City. Visit hubs.la/Q04BGbVC0 to learn more and register now. 👇

Put your organization where the worldwide freedom movement comes together. During Liberty Forum, connect with think tank leaders, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and advocates bringing firsthand experience from communities around the world. Introduce your work to people who share your principles, discover potential collaborators, and build relationships that can continue long after New York. Sponsorship gives you a visible role in creating that experience. 🔹 Bring your team into the Exhibit Hall with an exhibit booth, creating a place for conversations, demonstrations, and introductions to your organization’s work. 🔹 Sponsor a breakfast, with a reserved VIP table and branded materials, and help create the setting where attendees meet and begin exchanging ideas. 🔹 Keep attendees connected through branded charging stations, with opportunities to share your message on screen. Across two days of talks, workshops, meals, and conversations, attendees will explore how freedom is advancing, where it faces resistance, and what they can learn from one another. Your sponsorship helps make those connections possible while putting your organization’s mission in front of a community that cares. With just over three weeks until Liberty Forum, now is the time to choose how you’ll take part. November 11–12 | Sheraton New York Times Square Swipe through to explore the sponsorship opportunities, then visit hubs.la/Q04BQg240 to learn more and secure your spot today. 👇

Put your organization where the worldwide freedom movement comes together. During Liberty Forum, connect with think tank leaders, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and advocates bringing firsthand experience from communities around the world. Introduce your work to people who share your principles, discover potential collaborators, and build relationships that can continue long after New York. Sponsorship gives you a visible role in creating that experience. 🔹 Bring your team into the Exhibit Hall with an exhibit booth, creating a place for conversations, demonstrations, and introductions to your organization’s work. 🔹 Sponsor a breakfast, with a reserved VIP table and branded materials, and help create the setting where attendees meet and begin exchanging ideas. 🔹 Keep attendees connected through branded charging stations, with opportunities to share your message on screen. Across two days of talks, workshops, meals, and conversations, attendees will explore how freedom is advancing, where it faces resistance, and what they can learn from one another. Your sponsorship helps make those connections possible while putting your organization’s mission in front of a community that cares. With just over three weeks until Liberty Forum, now is the time to choose how you’ll take part. November 11–12 | Sheraton New York Times Square Swipe through to explore the sponsorship opportunities, then visit hubs.la/Q04BQgxp0 to learn more and secure your spot today. 👇

(2/2) Alongside the Templeton Freedom Award celebration, Freedom Dinner brings two remarkable champions of liberty into the spotlight. Hear Lord Daniel Hannan, director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, deliver the Linda Whetstone Toast to Freedom. A leading writer and advocate for liberty, he has spent three decades bringing the case for freedom to audiences worldwide. Honor Rocío Guijarro with the Sir Antony Fisher Achievement Award for lifetime service to liberty. Her leadership of CEDICE Libertad helped keep Venezuela’s freedom movement alive while fellow advocates faced threats, imprisonment, and exile. These honors recognize years of conviction, persistence, and courage. A table sponsorship brings your friends, colleagues, and fellow supporters into the community celebrating that work. For someone discovering Atlas Network for the first time, this is an opportunity to meet the people behind the mission and understand why their work matters. For longtime supporters, it is an evening to reconnect, recognize achievement, and share that commitment with others. Explore Gold, Silver, and Bronze sponsorship packages below, alongside the packages in our previous post. With just over three weeks to go, gather your guests and reserve your seat. Freedom Dinner | November 12 | Cipriani 42nd Street | New York City Explore Freedom Dinner tables and Liberty Forum sponsorships: hubs.la/Q04BQ5kx0 👇

(1/2) The freedom movement’s biggest night of the year is almost here. Who will you bring? Join Atlas Network on November 12 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Spend an evening alongside freedom champions from around the world, hear their stories, and introduce your guests to the people turning shared convictions into extraordinary achievements . At the heart of Freedom Dinner is the Templeton Freedom Award, recognizing exceptional contributions to economic freedom and human progress. Meet this year’s finalists: 🇧🇷 Instituto Liberal de São Paulo helped expand freedom to work across jurisdictions representing nearly 130 million Brazilians. Removing licensing barriers makes it easier to start businesses and earn a living. 🇮🇳 Centre for Civil Society helped repeal 216 obsolete or burdensome laws in India. Its work removes legal obstacles to opportunity and individual initiative. 🇦🇷 Fundación Libertad y Progreso saw 74 deregulation proposals implemented in Argentina. Years of research and persuasion became reforms expanding opportunities for enterprise. 🇺🇸 Liberty Justice Center helped defeat unlawful emergency tariffs and is helping businesses navigate the recovery of more than $100 billion. Its work continues beyond the courtroom, helping businesses reclaim resources for jobs, investment, and growth. 🇺🇸 The Buckeye Institute helped secure energy reforms ending subsidies projected to cost Ohioans $582 million over four years. Those reforms also opened opportunities for competition and investment in electricity generation. 🇱🇹 Lithuanian Free Market Institute developed economics, ethics, and civics textbooks approved by Lithuania’s National Education Agency for grades 5–12. Reaching approximately 90,000 students, they equip future citizens and leaders with economic understanding, independent thinking, and responsibility for a free society. Be there as we honor all six and announce this year’s winner. And the evening’s celebrations continue. Read on for our distinguished honorees and more sponsorship packages or visit hubs.la/Q04BQ5pS0. 👇

Freedom’s future depends on what we do next. During Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, spend time with people who are responding to challenges to liberty in their own communities. Hear what is working, ask how they are making progress, and explore what their experiences could mean for the issues you care about. This is a chance to step back from the pace of the headlines and look more closely at the work of advancing freedom. Learn directly from practitioners, exchange ideas, and consider where your own efforts or support could make a difference. Whether you lead an organization, invest in the freedom movement, or want to become more involved, bring your questions and ambitions. Leave with a clearer sense of the possibilities ahead and connections with people working toward them. Join Atlas Network for Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, November 11–12, 2026, in New York City. Visit hubs.la/Q04BG96J0 to learn more and register today.

What will you take home from Liberty Forum? A fresh approach to reaching new audiences. A closer look at the people and projects advancing freedom. Connections that help you move your own work forward. During Liberty Forum, explore workshops, stories, and opportunities to participate that turn those possibilities into practical takeaways. Here are a few experiences to make time for this November: 💬 Join the session “Are We Talking to Ourselves?” Are our messages reaching new people or mostly resonating with those who already agree? In this practical session, examine familiar language and assumptions, and practice reframing a message for an audience you want to reach. 🎥 Tune in at the Tell-A-Vision Studio Explore six sessions throughout both days in the exhibitor hall. Put on a pair of headphones to block out the bustle and focus on video screenings, live interviews, and the people behind the work. Get a closer look at how freedom advocates are addressing challenges in their communities, with lessons that could inform your own efforts or the work you support. 🤝 Take part in Speed Networking Facilitated one-on-one and small-group conversations help you meet people beyond your existing circle. Find shared interests, exchange experiences, and build relationships you can continue throughout the Forum and afterward. These photos from last year offer a glimpse of the learning and connections that happen throughout the gathering. Bring your questions and your perspective. Choose the experiences that matter to you, and leave with ideas and relationships you can build on. Join Atlas Network for Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, November 11–12, 2026, in New York City. Visit hubs.la/Q04Bdlyv0 for more information and to register today!

What could you learn in a room full of people advancing freedom around the world? During Atlas Network’s Liberty Forum, meet freedom champions working in different countries and communities, hear firsthand where freedom is gaining ground and where it faces resistance, and learn how practitioners are responding to the challenges in front of them. It’s an opportunity to connect the global picture with local experience. Go beyond the headlines to understand what policies mean for the people living under them, ask questions directly of those doing the work, and explore ideas that could inform your own efforts. Izabela Patriota, Vice President of Ladies of Liberty Alliance, offers a simple suggestion for making the most of that opportunity: start a conversation. Speakers and fellow attendees share your commitment to freedom, and each brings experiences you can learn from. Whether you’re attending for the first time or returning, your questions and perspective belong in the conversation. Come to build relationships, exchange ideas, and leave with a clearer understanding of the state of freedom and the people working to advance it. Join Atlas Network for Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner, November 11–12 in New York City. Visit hubs.la/Q04B5nTG0 to learn more and join us.

🚨 Final call: October 1 is the deadline for this grant cycle. Our partners are working every day to expand freedom in their communities. They know which barriers need to come down, whose voices need to be heard, and what their organizations need to make lasting progress. We’re proud to support that work. If you have a priority project ready to move forward, explore the opportunity that best fits your goals: 🔹 Public Policy Advocacy: Pursue meaningful change through policy reform. 🔹 Engaging Hearts & Minds: Reach people with the ideas and values of a free society. 🔹 Organizational Capacity: Build the strength and infrastructure your organization needs to grow. Partners may submit up to two applications per cycle. Organizational Capacity is also open to non-partners who have been invited to apply after submitting a letter of interest. Review the requirements and apply by October 1. If you have questions, reach out to your regional grants support representative. Learn more and apply: hubs.la/Q04ymSxc0

🎉 Congratulations to Centre for Liberty, winner of the 2026 Asia Smart Bets Pitch Competition! Lawful property owners across Andhra Pradesh believed their land was securely theirs. Then they tried to sell it, mortgage it, transfer it to their children, develop it, or register it. That was when many discovered that their land had been placed on the government’s Section 22-A prohibited-properties list, sometimes without prior notice, evidence, a hearing, or a written decision. On paper, the land still belonged to them. In practice, they could not exercise the most basic rights of ownership. A government database entry gave officials the power to block nearly every meaningful use of their property. One case presented by Centre for Liberty involved Dr. Kasturi, an 83-year-old landowner who spent years fighting after private property was classified as a government lake. Even after the High Court ordered the land to be released, officials did not act until contempt proceedings placed additional pressure on them. An 83-year-old landowner should not have to spend years in court, then return to court to force the government to honor its ruling, simply to exercise their private property rights. Centre for Liberty recognized that thousands of owners could not be expected to fight the same exhausting battle alone. The organization began documenting cases, mobilizing affected landowners and legal professionals, and helping citizens assemble the records needed to defend their rights. It then opened the first Property Rights Centre in Tirupati, where owners can check their survey numbers, register their cases, organize property documents, and connect with local support. At Asia Liberty Forum in Colombo, Chakravarthy Nalamotu presented Centre for Liberty’s plan to expand this model to every district in Andhra Pradesh. With support from Smart Bets, the organization plans to educate and organize citizens across the state while pursuing permanent policy reforms, including secure private title insurance. Why does this matter? Without secure property rights, people cannot confidently build homes, start businesses, invest in their futures, or pass what they have earned to the next generation. Ownership has little meaning if the government can prevent people from using their property without notice or due process. As Chakravarthy told the audience, “Without property rights, there is no human freedom.” Smart Bets recognizes rising organizations with bold, scalable ideas for advancing liberty. Centre for Liberty’s work shows what that can look like: identifying government overreach, bringing affected people together, building a practical response, and creating a path toward reform. Join us in congratulating Chakravarthy Nalamotu and the entire Centre for Liberty team on winning the 2026 Asia Smart Bets Pitch Competition!

🇮🇳 More freedom can begin with crossing one bad law off the books. Centre for Civil Society in India has won the 2026 Asia Liberty Award, recognizing more than a decade of work to replace outdated and burdensome laws with clearer, more predictable rules. Since 2014, CCS has developed a systematic method for identifying obsolete, redundant, and burdensome laws across India. Its early “Repeal of 100 Laws” report offered government officials a clear, evidence-based path for simplifying the country’s legal framework rather than relying on one-off reforms. By 2024, CCS identified 534 laws for repeal and contributed to the removal of 216 laws at the national and state levels. Its work has also advanced trust-based governance, making the case that ordinary business activity should not expose entrepreneurs to disproportionate criminal punishment. This is what patient policy reform can accomplish: less arbitrary power, greater certainty, and more freedom for people to build their own futures. Join us in congratulating the Centre for Civil Society and fellow finalists Samriddhi Foundation in Nepal and Foundation for Economic Freedom in the Philippines for their contributions to a freer, more prosperous Asia.

What can change when families regain control of their land, courts protect due process, and young people can access credible ideas instead of misinformation? Last week at Asia Liberty Forum in Colombo, three Atlas Network partners presented their ideas during the 2026 Asia Smart Bets Pitch Competition: 🇮🇳 Chakravarthy Nalamotu of Centre for Liberty pitched “Unlocking 1.95 Crore Acres of Freedom,” a campaign to protect property rights in Andhra Pradesh. Centre for Liberty says that flawed government land records have placed 19.5 million acres on a prohibited-property list, preventing families from selling, building on, or borrowing against their land. The organization plans to expand its Property Rights Centers across the state, organize affected citizens, challenge bureaucratic obstruction, and advocate for secure property titles and lasting reform. 🇵🇰 Muhammad Sulaiman of National Influencers pitched “Justice Without Judges,” an effort to end the exercise of judicial powers by unelected bureaucrats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Through research, policy advocacy, and legal action, the project seeks to protect due process, individual rights, property rights, and the independence of the courts. 🇱🇰 Namini Panditha of Liberal Youth Movement pitched a plan to build an independent digital media house in Sri Lanka. The platform would counter misinformation and political polarization with accessible content that strengthens civic knowledge, informed debate, and youth leadership. Smart Bets is Atlas Network’s accelerator for discovering and backing the freedom movement’s rising stars: high-potential, up-and-coming organizations with bold, scalable ideas for advancing liberty. Through funding, mentorship, training, exposure, and competition, the program helps promising institutions turn early momentum into lasting impact. Each finalist is working to turn a locally grounded idea into a reform that could transform lives and offer a model for others across the region. Join us in celebrating these three finalists!

Lasting change takes more than a good idea. It takes leaders who build strong teams, bring people together, and remain committed long enough to turn possibility into progress. For two decades, Robin Sitoula has helped do exactly that. As co-founder and executive director of Samriddhi Foundation in Nepal, he has helped build an organization dedicated to entrepreneurship, economic policy reform, and democracy. At 2026 Asia Liberty Forum in Colombo, Robin will deliver the Toast to Freedom. The moment will recognize his leadership, the relationships behind Samriddhi’s work, and a regional community united by the belief that people deserve the freedom to shape their own futures. Please join us in celebrating Robin and raising a glass to the leaders across Asia whose persistence continues to move liberty forward. 🥂 #AsiaLibertyForum #ToastToFreedom #FreedomMovement

What does greater freedom look like in practice? It looks like removing outdated laws that expose entrepreneurs to arbitrary punishment. Making it easier to start a business, attract investment, and bring new ideas to market. Giving landholders the certainty to invest in projects that can support their families and communities for generations. The three finalists for the 2026 Asia Liberty Award are turning those possibilities into policy: 🇳🇵 Samriddhi Foundation (Nepal) helped advance reforms that reduce barriers to entrepreneurship, open new paths for investment, and strengthen government accountability. 🇮🇳 Centre for Civil Society (India) has contributed to the repeal of 216 outdated and burdensome laws. 🇵🇭 Foundation for Economic Freedom (Philippines) helped secure stronger property rights and 99-year leases for long-term rural enterprises. These achievements required years of research, relationship-building, and persistence. The Asia Liberty Award gives that work the regional recognition it deserves while helping successful ideas reach others working toward freer, more prosperous societies. The winner will be announced during Asia Liberty Forum, taking place Sept. 10–11, 2026, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Learn more about the finalists and why their work matters: hubs.la/Q04x5NV60