Programs
U.S. Programs

Grantees

Grantees

The Open Society Foundations U.S. Programs aims to address core threats to open society, including increasingly punitive national security policies, decreasing government transparency, entrenched structural racism, and growing incarceration rates.

  • Calvin Duncan 2013

    Duncan will seek to vindicate the post-conviction rights of people incarcerated in Louisiana prisons by increasing their access to court records and quality representation..

  • Charity Tolliver 2013

    Tolliver will form a grassroots campaign that challenges the policies and practices that push Illinois foster youth into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

  • Ian Mance 2013

    Mance will use powerful and newly-available statistical evidence to expose and directly challenge the systemic practice of racial profiling in several North Carolina counties.

  • Jackie Sumell 2013

    Sumell will launch a new media campaign that exposes the widespread use and abuse of solitary confinement and supports existing advocacy campaigns.

  • Joshua Gravens 2013

    Gravens will educate Texas policymakers, law enforcement, the legal profession, and the general public about the harms associated with placing children on sex offense registries.

  • Kylee Sunderlin 2013

    Sunderlin will create a network of expertly trained counsel to represent mothers facing termination of parental rights based on their enrollment in methadone maintenance treatment.

  • Luis Trelles 2013

    Trelles will produce a series of print, web-based, video, and audio pieces that describe the complications and contradictions surrounding the use of the federal death penalty in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

  • Marbre Stahly-Butts 2013

    Stahly-Butts will organize and support those affected by drug-related evictions in New York City to protect their rights and advocate for the end of such policies.

  • Maureen Barden 2013

    Barden will develop and implement model policies and practices to help realize the Affordable Care Act’s potential for improving the physical and behavior health of Pennsylvanians coming home from prison and jail each year.

  • Mujahid Farid 2013

    Using research, mobilization and advocacy, Farid will address the plight of older people in New York State prisons and promote the use of mechanisms that would lead to their release.

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