Winners of the Atlas Foundation’s Sixteen Templeton Freedom Awards.

Last fall, Deep Springs International received the Templeton Freedom Award in the category of Social Entrepreneurship — Emerging Enterprises. The Templeton Freedom Awards are given annually in eight different categories by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Recipients of the Social Entrepreneurship Award are chosen based on outstanding research and innovative projects on social entrepreneurship to benefit the poor, and the general building of a sound, strong, civil society. One hundred and seventy organizations from 58 countries applied for this award in 2008. Deep Springs was chosen because of the organization’s strong vision and goals as well as the impact DSI is making in Haiti.