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.

  • Olga Tomchin 2013

    Tomchin will challenge the inhumane treatment of indigent transgender people in immigration detention and improve their access to quality deportation defense representation.

  • Tanya Erzen 2013

    Erzen will write a book describing how and why the U.S. has become a faith-based prison nation, and what this means for criminal justice policy and practice.

  • Tyrone Werts 2013

    Through workshops, community meetings, and public education, Werts will develop and promote the leadership of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men in addressing the problem of crime and violence in their communities.

  • A New Faith Community 2012

    A grant to improve services by developing a fundraising and strategic plan, and engage in a program evaluation.

  • Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc. 2012

    A grant to promote statewide school discipline reform and ensure that all of Baltimore’s children have access to high quality education and school facilities.

  • Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc. 2012

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

  • Alliance for a Just Society 2012

    A grant to provide general support in the amount of $500,000.00 and project support in the amount of $200,000.00 to support the Main Street Alliance.

  • Amanda Alexander 2012

    Through direct legal services, client education, targeted litigation, and advocacy, Detroit native Amanda Alexander will work to minimize the ways an entire family suffers when a parent is incarcerated.

  • Amanda Aronczyk 2012

    Aronczyk will produce a radio documentary and report on the financial barriers people face upon leaving prison and how this impacts families and communities.

  • American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education 2012

    A grant to renew project support for the work of the Standing Committee on Judicial Independence.

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