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.

  • Amanda Spake 2006

    A grant to spotlight the delivery of health services in smaller communities, particularly in Mississippi, and highlight the importance of reducing economic and health disparity in the Gulf Region and beyond.

  • Annette Foglino 2006

    A grant to write articles about citizens who have made personal commitments to rebuilding their communities after Hurricane Katrina.

  • Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun 2006

    A grant to continue their 30-year commitment to documenting African American residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and produce 40 post-flood portraits and 20 oral histories of fellow displaced residents now living in Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

  • Christopher Tetens and Lauren Thompson 2006

    A grant to document the failures of the New Orleans criminal justice system that were brought to light by Hurricane Katrina, particularly the brutality and neglect faced by those incarcerated in the Orleans Parish Prison during the disaster.

  • Clarence Williams 2006

    A grant to produce a photographic essay chronicling New Orleans from flood to aftermath to rebuilding, with special emphasis on the impact rebuilding efforts will have on the racial makeup of the city.

  • Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson 2006

    A grant to create a fictional novel based on fact that follows the journeys of several people as they escape New Orleans and struggle to reunite with their families and start new lives.

  • Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Elie 2006

    A grant to complete a documentary, five years in the works, that focuses on Tremé, a historic New Orleans neighborhood that was home to one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most politically active black communities in the country during slavery.

  • Dean Starkman 2006

    A grant to examine the response of the nation's $1.3-trillion insurance industry to the biggest ever natural catastrophe in the United States and to explore the near-complete collapse of the government regulatory system responsible for making sure insurers treat policyholders fairly.

  • Debbie Caffery 2006

    A grant to document the journey of displaced residents transferred from the Convention Center and Superdome to the Baton Rouge River Shelter, the destruction and neglect of the Ninth Ward, and personal items left behind in now abandoned houses and churches.

  • Dee Davis 2006

    A grant to produce documentary shorts, public service announcements, and photographs as part of a national media campaign on rural Gulf Coast residents' struggle to re-establish their lives and communities.

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