Support the work of think tanks and nonprofits directly in economically emerging countries that work towards improving policies to allow healthier small business environments, lessen the burden of formalizing a business, and work to improve women’s access to work and financial autonomy. They know best the priorities for their own communities. Here are just a few organizations that work on such issues: 

• The Atlas Network
  One of our main research partners, AtlasNetwork.org is a grant giving nonproft that supports hundreds of think tanks on the ground working to improve their own communities. They trust their network partners to know best what their communities need and through grants help them impact emerging economies and issues of personal and economic freedom worldwide.

• The Advocata Institute

• Asociación de Contribuyentes del Perú

• African Students for Liberty, spearheaded by Linda Kavuka

Linda, similar to Magatte Wade, was inspired by Dr. George Ayittey, a groundbreaking Ghanaian economist who advocated for free enterprise and political freedom in Africa. He often lamented the fact that poverty in Africa was not a reflection on the people of the continent, but of the poor standards of integrity and ideas among Africa’s largely authoritarian leaders. Dr. Ayittey advocated the rise of what he called a “Cheetah Generation”—young, freedom-minded Africans fed up with corruption—to take the reins from the “Hippo Generation,” the old guard of crooked bureaucrats and ruling elites.