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.

  • Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc. 2012

    A grant to engage in public education and advocacy efforts to advance juvenile justice reform in Maryland.

  • Baltimore Algebra Project, Inc. 2012

    A grant to engage in youth organizing and advocacy efforts to stop the construction of a youth jail in Baltimore and to reallocate the funding for the jail to facilities and programs that offer youth opportunities.

  • Civic Works, Inc. 2012

    A grant to support its Baltimore Center for Green Careers and Retrofit Baltimore Program, which provide job training and placement services to people with criminal records.

  • Community Law in Action, Inc. 2012

    A grant to engage in community organizing and public education efforts to reduce the number of youth who are prosecuted as adults and held in adult jails pre-trial.

  • Episcopal Community Services of Maryland, Inc. 2012

    A grant to provide reentry services to Baltimore Empowerment Zone residents who are formerly incarcerated.

  • Fraternal Order of X-Offenders 2012

    A grant to support the Boys 2 Men Program, which provides workshops and mentoring services to juvenile court-involved high school students.

  • Fusion Partnerships, Inc. 2012

    A grant to support the Ingoma Foundation’s neighborhood-based initiative to reduce youth arrests, particularly the arrests of African-American youth, by improving youth/community/police relations.

  • Job Opportunities Task Force, Inc. 2012

    A grant to conduct advocacy and communication activities to reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.

  • Johns Hopkins University 2012

    A grant to enable the Institute for Policy Studies to conduct cost-benefit analyses of prosecuting youth as adults, rather than as youth, and detaining youth pre-trial in a proposed new adult jail, rather than in existing juvenile detention facilities.

  • Justice Policy Institute 2012

    A grant to engage in research, policy advocacy and communications efforts to promote criminal justice reform in Maryland.

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