The Libertarian Movement

Libertarian Organizations

• Acton Institute

  The Acton Institute is a think-tank whose mission is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.

• Adam Smith Institute

  The Adam Smith Institute works to promote free market ideas through research, publishing, media outreach, and education. The Institute is at the forefront of making the case for free markets and a free society in the United Kingdom.

• American Enterprise Institute

  The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world.

• Atlas Network

  Atlas Network's mission is to strengthen the worldwide freedom movement by cultivating a highly effective and expansive network that inspires and incentivizes all committed individuals and organizations to achieve lasting impact.

• Atlas Society

  The Atlas Society promotes open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.

• Cato Institute

  The Cato Institute is a think tank dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues

• Center for Individual Freedom

  Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

• Competitive Enterprise Institute

  CEI's mission is to promote both freedom and fairness by making good policy good politics. We make the uncompromising case for economic freedom because we believe it is essential for entrepreneurship, innovation, and prosperity to flourish.

• Discovery Institute

  Discovery Institute’s mission is to advance a culture of purpose, creativity and innovation. It has a special concern for the role that science and technology play in our culture and how they can advance free markets, illuminate public policy and support the theistic foundations of the West.

• Downsize DC

  DownsizeDC believes the federal government has grown too centralized, too intrusive and too expensive, and works to restore the full force of the 9th and 10th amendments, which reserve most social functions to the people and the states.

• Drug Policy Alliance

  Drug Policy Alliance's mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.

• Foundation for Economic Education

  FEE’s mission is to inspire, educate and connect young adults with the economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society. These principles include individual liberty, free-market economics, entrepreneurship, private property, and strong personal character.

• The Federalist Society

  The Society's main purpose is to sponsor fair, serious, and open debate about the need to enhance individual freedom and the role of the courts in saying what the law is rather than what they wish it to be.

• Fraser Institute

  Fraser Institute works to improve the quality of life for Canadians, their families, and future generations by studying, measuring, and broadly communicating the effects of government policies, entrepreneurship, and choice on their well-being.

• Free State Project

  The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire.

• Fully Informed Jury Association

  The FIJA mission is to educate Americans regarding their full powers as jurors, including their ability to rely on personal conscience, to judge the merit of the law and its application and to nullify bad law, when necessary for justice, by finding for the defendant.

• Future of Freedom Foundation

  The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property and limited government.

• The Goldwater Institute

  The Goldwater Institute is an independent government watchdog organization supported by people who are committed to expanding free enterprise and liberty.

• The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii

  The mission of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is to promote individual liberty, the free market and limited accountable government.

• Heartland Institute

  Heartland’s mission is to discover, develop and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.

• Hispanic American Center for Economic Research

  HACER’s goal is to promote the study of issues pertinent to the countries of Hispanic America as well as Hispanic Americans living in the United States, especially as they relate to the values of personal and economic liberty, limited government under the rule of law and individual responsibility.

• Independent Institute

  The Independent Institute sponsors in-depth studies of critical social and economic issues to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity.

• Institute for Economic Affairs

  The IEA is the UK’s original free-market think-tank, founded in 1955. Our mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.

• Institute for Health Freedom

  The Institute for Health Freedom was established to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening the freedom to choose one’s health care providers and treatments, and to maintain confidential relationships with one’s providers without interference from government or private third parties.

• Institute for Humane Studies

  IHS is devoted to research and education in the conviction that greater understanding of human affairs and freedom would foster peace, prosperity and social harmony.

• Institute for Justice

  Through strategic litigation, training, communication and outreach, the Institute for Justice advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society.

• International Society for Individual Liberty

  Liberty International, formerly known as the International Society for Individual Liberty, and Libertarian International, is one of the pioneers in the creation of the worldwide libertarian movement – today’s fastest-growing philosophical/political movement.

• Ladies of Liberty Alliance

  The mission of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance is to cultivate and empower a unique community of liberty-minded women through networking and educational opportunities.

• Libertarian Futurist Society

  The Libertarian Futurist Society recognizes and promotes libertarian science fiction through the annual Prometheus Awards.

• Libertarian International

  Libertarian International coordinates various initiatives in the defense of individual liberty throughout the world.

• Libertarian Party of Canada

  The mission of the Libertarian Party of Canada is to reduce the responsibilities and expense of government so that Canadians may each manage their lives to mutually fulfill their needs by the free and voluntary exchange of their efforts and property for the value that best realizes our happiness.

• Libertarian Party of USA

  America’s third largest political party, the Libertarian Party, seeks to advance individual liberty by running libertarian candidates for public office.

• Liberty Fund

  Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

• The Locke Institute

  The Locke Institute seeks to promote a greater understanding of natural rights and its implications for constitutional democracy and modern society’s economic organization.

• Ludwig von Mises Institute

  The Mises Institutes serves as the world’s leading provider of educational materials, conferences, media and literature supporting Austrian Economics and the school of thought represented by Ludwig Von Mises and his contribution to its modern following.

• Mackinac Center for Public Policy

  The Mackinac Center is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions.

• Mannkal Economic Education Foundation

  The Mannkal Foundation aims to strengthen the free market system in Australia, by promoting ideals of voluntary cooperation, choice, personal rights, limited government and responsible resourcefulness of individuals.

• Marijuana Policy Project

  MPP is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. They work to remove criminal penalties for marijuana use, with a particular emphasis on making marijuana medically available for ill people who have the approval of their doctors.

• Mercatus Center, George Mason University

  The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is the world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas—bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems.

• National Center for Policy Analysis

  The NCPA’s goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. *closed*

• Outright Libertarians

  Outright Libertarians is an association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other self-identified “queer” (LGBTQ) Libertarian Party activists and supporters.

• Pacific Research Institute

  The mission of the Pacific Research Institute is to champion freedom, opportunity and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions.

• Property and Environment Research Center

  PERC is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through markets and property rights.

• Reason Foundation

  Reason Foundation advances a free society by developing, applying and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets and the rule of law.

• Republican Liberty Caucus

  The RLC exists to promote individual liberty, limited governments and free enterprise within the Republican Party.

• State Policy Network

  The State Policy Network is dedicated solely to improving the practical effectiveness of independent, nonprofit, market-oriented, state-focused think tanks. SPN’s programs enable these organizations to better educate local citizens, policy makers and opinion leaders about market-oriented alternatives to state and local policy challenges.

• Students for Liberty

  Students for Liberty’s mission is to provide a unified, student-driven forum for students and student organizations dedicated to liberty.

• Young Americans for Liberty

  Young Americans for Liberty is the continuation of Students for Ron Paul that seeks to recruit, train, educate and mobilize students on the ideas of liberty and the Constitution.