At the 2025 Freedom Dinner on November 13, Georgia's Future Academy was announced as the winner of Atlas Network's prestigious 2025 Templeton Freedom Award. The Templeton Freedom Award is generously sponsored by the Templeton Religion Trust.
Georgia’s Future Academy has emerged as a crucial pro-democracy force through strategic youth mobilization. During the 2024 parliamentary elections, the organization mobilized, trained, and deployed over 2,000 election observers for the “My Vote” campaign to counter widespread electoral fraud in Georgia and address the country’s severe democratic backsliding. Georgia’s Future Academy also built several of the country’s largest civic education programs, including the #IDEBATE program and the Franklin Academy, totaling more than 5,000 alumni who now make up Georgia’s largest and most engaged pro-liberty youth network—both in-person and online. Georgia’s youth liberty movement is now an integral bulwark against increasing restrictions on civil society, such as the “Foreign Agents Law.” And young Georgians’ efforts have been amplified on social media, with the organization’s #MartisIdebi channel garnering over 10 million views in a matter of months.
