Antigua Forum Launches New Accelerator to Assist Foundations in Optimizing Outcomes for Projects They Sponsor

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Jun 03, 2015, 10:30 ET

GUATEMALA CITY, June 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Antigua Forum announced the launch of a new type of accelerator designed to assist foundations and nonprofit organizations maximize the results of the projects they sponsor. The Antigua Forum is currently introducing this service at no cost. Applications are now being accepted.

Arthur L. Chait, president of the Antigua Forum, said, "Our past success demonstrates that many projects benefit significantly when they are worked on by a diverse group of selected entrepreneurs, political reformers, and other experts who understand the power of markets and individuals. This new accelerator offers foundations the opportunity to have their projects included in our work. We are introducing this service at no cost."

Foundations can send their project leaders to the Antigua Forum in January 2016 where they will work with a group of experts that has been specifically selected. This brain trust includes entrepreneurs, legislators, reformers, government officials, business executives, and consultants. Facilitators help guide the work which takes place in a beautifully restored private estate. Each project leader leaves the meeting with a specific action plan and an expanded network to call on for future support.

About the Antigua Forum and Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM)

The Antigua Forum is a project of UFM. Giancarlo Ibarguen, the university's past president and chairman of the Antigua Forum, explains, "The Antigua Forum is an exclusive, annual gathering of entrepreneurs and classical liberal reformers from around the world. We bring together this select group to develop practical solutions to real-world issues. Participants have come from over forty countries." http://www.antiguaforum.ufm.edu/#about

UFM is a private university founded in 1971. President Gabriel Calzada said, "UFM is dedicated to teaching and disseminating the ethical, legal, and economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons. The university is a nonprofit, but we run it like an entrepreneurial venture. All of our students, regardless of academic discipline, study the causes and origins of the wealth of nations." Honorary doctorate recipients at UFM include Peter Thiel, Milton Friedman, Jose Maria Aznar, Michael Deaver, Viktor Frankl, Steve Forbes, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, James Buchanan, Walter Williams, Vernon L. Smith, Jeff Sandefer, George Gilder, Mario Vargas Llosa. https://www.ufm.edu/index.php/Portal