Global Voices for Open Trade

Global Voices for Open Trade will provide research, advocacy, and marketing support for Atlas Network’s global partners who are engaged in the promotion of free and open trade policies. Over a three-year period, we will launch a competitive grant program that will incentivize our partners to use media and other forms of public education to quantify the benefits of free trade policies and highlight stories of both the beneficiaries and victims of corrupt trade policies. Six grants and six associated trainings will be offered per year, with the final grant cycle in 2021. We will convene annual collaboratories of grantees to assist with messaging, research, and networking. We will create media-friendly tools, including an online workshop on economic journalism, to promote quality journalism on economic issues, working with our partners to disseminate this information to writers at the local and regional levels with the goal of increasing earned media on this topic. By incentivizing our global partners to focus on changing public policy in favor of free trade, and creating tools that can improve the way journalists write about this issue, we aspire to achieve changes in trade policy and media that demonstrate increased openness and freedom in at least 10 countries.