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.

  • Alicia Amezcua 1997

    Alicia Amezcua will represent young people accused of crimes, to ensure they receive prompt social and educational services, and to conduct workshops on legal rights and responsibilities targeted to students, parents, and school administrators.

  • Amy Hirsch 1997

    Amy Hirsch will explore the impact of Federal legislation that denies food stamps and government assistance to mothers and their families if the mothers have a history of felony drug convictions, even if they are now in, or have successfully completed, drug treatment.

  • Andrew Block 1997

    Andrew Block will establish a child advocacy project, Just Children, to provide civil legal services and sentencing advocacy for low-income children in the juvenile justice system, and to teach parents effective methods for protecting their children's rights.

  • Angela Browne 1997

    Angela Browne will write a book analyzing the lifelong effects of trauma that North American women and children face most often, such as physical and sexual violence in the home.

  • Anne Kysar 1997

    Anne Kysar will engage in litigation to prevent the incarceration of children for non-criminal offenses.

  • Barbara Fedders 1997

    Barbara Fedders will represent young people residing in two low-income, multi-racial Boston neighborhoods in delinquency and youthful offender proceedings, and to conduct legal workshops informing them of their rights and responsibilities.

  • Christa Gannon 1997

    Christa Gannon will reduce recidivism among first-time offenders by providing mentoring and rights education to juvenile offenders placed on probation in Santa Clara County.

  • Corinne Carey 1997

    Corinne Carey will represent current and recovering drug users, conduct workshops to inform them about the repercussions of new drug laws, help them resolve complex civil and criminal legal problems and organize advocates seeking more effective strategies to assist drug-using clients.

  • Jaribu Hill 1997

    Jaribu Hill will organize a campaign highlighting the use of the death penalty in Mississippi and Louisiana on inmates with mental retardation and inmates convicted of crimes committed as juveniles, and to inform families of death row inmates about their rights.

  • Joanne Lin 1997

    Joanne Lin will provide legal advocacy for Asian Pacific Islander battered women in family law and immigration proceedings and conduct education and training on domestic violence in Asian immigrant communities.

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