The Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is a Indian think tank and an independent, non-profit, research and educational organisation, established in 1997. In 2004, CCS was awarded the inaugural Templeton Freedom Award for excellence in the Student Outreach category, followed by the award in Free Market Solutions to Poverty in 2005 and in Initiative in Public Relations category in 2009. The award is given by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation using funding from the John Templeton Foundation. More information on the Wikipedia page [1]. The website is [2]